The Best Technical Journalist will award the journalist whose writing is the most effective in meeting the information needs of a technical audience, effectively explaining how technology is developing or how it can be better used or implemented.

Criteria:
Depth, Value to reader, Readability, Originality, Flair

Explanation:
Depth
Articles should be impeccably researched, relying on multiple and well-credentialed sources, as well as demonstrating a developed and authoritative grasp of the topic at hand.
Value to reader
Articles should be very relevant and of great value to the readership being targeted.
Readability
Articles should be written in a manner that makes them easily understood by the target audience.
Originality
Articles should be original, delivering new information, or a new spin on previously documented issues or news.
Flair
Articles should show flow, accuracy, balance and creativity in the manner they are written, drawing the reader into the story with well-crafted, entertaining and/or powerful phrasing, analogies, quotes and imagery. Nominations containing typos, spelling mistakes and/or factual errors may be automatically disqualified.

Marks
Each of the criteria should be given a mark out of 10, except for Flair which should be marked out of 8 and Depth should be out of 12.

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