Press Awards 2020
2020 marks the 10th anniversary of The Netherlands press awards. The awards are given to outstanding articles published in the UK during the previous year on the subject of the Netherlands.
As this is a special anniversary year, two additional awards were included to celebrate outstanding work in the last decade.
Judges for this year’s awards included: NBTC UK Director Sandra Ishmael, The Embassy of The Kingdom of the Netherlands Communications Advisor Koen Guiking and NBTC UK PR Manager Simone Sagi.
Congratulations to the following:
Best Print Article
Runner Up
Jon Murray The Oxford Times for Real Dutch Masterpiece
Winner
Martin Dunford The Evening Standard for A Weekend with Van Gogh
Best Online Article
Runner Up
Catherine Boardman Catherine’s Cultural Wednesdays For Lovely Leiden Netherlands Weekend Break
Winner
Alice Tate Flash Anthology for Five favourites in Rotterdam
Best Arts Article
Runner Up
Nick Trend Country Life for Windows on an artist’s mind
Winner
William Cook independent.co.uk Rembrandt’s genius was no overnight success. He worked hard to get it right.
Outstanding Article of the Year
Winner
Fiona Richards Timeless Travels Magazine for Europe Remembers
Journalist of the Year
Winner
Fiona Richards
10th anniversary categories:
Arts Writer of the Decade
Martin Bailey
Travel Writer of the Decade
Stuart Forster
Thanks to the following for their generous goody bag gifts: Cheese Valley for delicious Gouda and Faber books for the debut novel The Discomfort of Evening by Marieke Lucas Rijneveld.