How are the judges for the writing/ cartoonists categories decided on?
The chairman of judges allocates up to two categories to each judge, based on who he believes is best suited to those categories, while trying to ensure that nobody judges a category in which their newspaper or website is entered. If that does happen, and it hasn’t yet, that category is in any case judged by a panel of usually six judges, so any one judge will only be contributing one-sixth of all votes cast. No two people currently working for the same media organisation can be on the same judging panel ie, if the sports editor of the Sunday Times is judging one category, then the sports editors of The Sun, the News of the World and The Times will not be judging that category. None of the judges know who else is judging their categories.
