Rules

Branch managers with their relevant department heads must verify originality and ownership of all entries as well as the gross profit figures (if applicable) before sending the branch’s consignment.

Please also check that the new systems for entries are adhered to. The completed Excel sheets need to be submitted for the different categories and the entries need to be separated and labelled for the correct category champions.
• Commercial – Jeanette Peach
• Content – Irma Green
• Creative/Design -Mirêlle Jacobs
• Innovation – Karen Watts and Karen Geurtse
• Get It – Kym Argo

You will thus have four or five packs per branch marked to reach each champion.

Since this is a competition recognising EXCELLENCE, line managers – ie. editors,sales and production managers – must screen entries to ensure that only those of an excellent standard are submitted.

There is a greater emphasis on the digital component of entries and scores are given on how your print stories unfold on digital and then in the paper. It is equally important in the advertising categories and will also be to the benefit of entrants.

Entries with a digital component (articles, advertising) need to be printed and sent with the entries. A link to a story is not good enough as judges do not have access and resources to follow links. Screen shots of ad campaigns online can be entered.

Your entries need to be accompanied by a CLEARLY MARKED DVD with the entry content on the DVD. This applies especially to photographs and advertisements but also to editorial entries. This is for reproduction purposes for the awards evening. Please make sure you include the checklist with your entry packs.

Entries can be sent by internal mail or courier to : Caxton Excellence Awards Co-ordinators, Gien Elsas and Jabulile Majola c/o Joburg North offices, 368 Jan Smuts Ave, Craighall. Johannesburg. Entries have to be at the Joburg North offices by noon on the closing date.

All entries must show the date of publication. Only newspapers and magazines like Get It that are totally run by our newspaper branches can enter. Caxton magazines like Food & Home etc. have their own awards.

There is a limit to the number of entries you may submit in each of the contest categories. Refer to category details.

Only one copy per category needs to be submitted – this applies to all categories.

If an item is entered for more than one category, separate entry forms must be submitted for each category.

All entries become the property of the Caxton Awards committee. Although entries will not be acknowledged, you are welcome to phone 087 285 7908 to check whether your entries have arrived.

An entry form – as in the competition kit – must be attached to every entry with the relevant information.

See the separate forms for the ad, feature, photographic and regular publication categories. If not entered in the correct categories, entries will be disqualified.

Entries must be pre-sorted at the branch.

A covering statement giving requested information is required for most categories and must be attached to the entry form.

A manager may submit an entry if he/she has been solely or substantially responsible for a particular effort/item.

To ensure a standard format of presentation, all entries must be mounted on plain white paper or enclosed in a simple folder – please do not use file binders. Newspaper Journalist of the Year entries should preferably be pasted on A3 paper and spreads should be carefully cut and reassembled with as much of the image across the spread intact.

Get It Magazine entries should be inserted in a plastic sleeve with the entry form facing the front of the sleeve. The entries must be mounted on plain white paper with the motivation which is to be kept to a limited number of words, pasted on the back of the paper.

Entries with the branch’s DVD in PDF format should be sent either in an envelope or a box since the entries tend to get damaged if folded or rolled up.