The Guild of Agricultural Journalists will hold its biennial Agri Guild Awards, kindly sponsored by FBD, at the Castleknock Hotel in Dublin on Thursday, November 28^th.

The black-tie ceremony will recognise journalists for their outstanding work in national and regional media, as well as consultants in the communications sector, across nine different categories: Best News Story; Best Feature; Best Visual Report; Best Use of Audio; Best Technical Report; Best Targeted Campaign; Best Environmental Reporting; Best Photograph and The Rising Star Award.

In addition to cash prizes for each category winner, ‘The Bull’, the prized bronze trophy, will be presented to the category winner whose exceptional merit will be recognised by the adjudicating panel.

This panel will be chaired by former RTE editor Tom McGuire, who is joined by Maeve Dineen (communications consultant and former journalist), Joe Healy (former IFA President and Chair of the Agri-Food Regulator), Michele Filippi (PR consultant) and Anne Marie Butler (Head of Education, Teagasc).

Michael Berkery, chairman, FBD Trust said:

FBD is proud to continue our long-standing support for the Guild of Agricultural Journalists. Journalists have an important function of exploring and communicating today’s issues with integrity. We are proud to partner with the Guild to sponsor awards that recognise and celebrate professionalism and exemplary standards in agri-journalism.

Chair of the Guild of Agricultural Journalists in the Republic of Ireland, Stella Meehan said:

We are energised and enthusiastic to see what entries will be submitted to the various categories in the Agri Guild Awards this year.

Year on year, journalists and communicators working in the agricultural media sector demonstrate the high-quality journalism, expertise and communication they achieve within their field and consistently educate and inform audiences not just in Ireland but across the world.

We are grateful to partner with FBD again this year, which has been a consistent supporter of the Guild and its work and look forward to welcoming the industry to the awards ceremony in November.

Award entrants must be members of the AgriGuild while non-members are required to join the Guild prior to submitting entries by paying a fee of €90 which will provide full membership of the Guild, including all its benefits for a period of one year.

Applicants for this year’s awards may only submit one entry per category. However, this does not preclude multiple entries in each category from different staff members working for the same agri-media organisation. Each entry must have been published between September 1^st, 2022 and August 31^st, 2024.

The deadline for receipt of entries is 5:00p.m on Friday, September 27, 2024.

The launch of the awards coincides with the development of a brand new AgriGuild website, sponsored by Agriland Media Group.

For further details, or to submit an entry, please visit agriguild.ie

Entry to the awards for 2024 can be completed via the agriguild.ie website; members will be able to login in to the awards entry portal and non-members will also be provided with access once membership subscription has been paid.

For non-members who sign up and pay for membership, please ensure you complete the application form for membership and email it to the AgriGuild secretary.

All current members have been issued with a login and password for security purposes, therefore before beginning to submit entries to the awards, please click on the ‘forgot password’ button on the website when the login page appears, and follow the instructions to generate your own new password. The email address required of you is the email address the Guild currently has on file for each member.