Nigerian Breweries Plc has commended the media for rallying support for the huge harvest of entries for the 9thGolden Pen Awards sponsored by the company. Submission of entries for the 9th edition of the Awards, which started on Monday, July 3, 2017, closed on Friday, August 4, 2017.
The award was introduced by Nigerian Breweries to promote professionalism in journalism practice in Nigeria.
At the close of the submission of
entries, two hundred and fifty
works for different categories were received by officials in charge of the
award’s entry portal.
Corporate Affairs Adviser, Nigerian
Breweries, Kufre Ekanem, explained that an independent panel of judges made up
of distinguished professionals would analyze the entries for originality, news
value, use of resources, credibility and factuality at the end of the
collation.
Other areas of interest are
info-graphics, lay out/headline, clarity and social responsibility, according
to him.
Mr. Ekanem said that the 9th Nigerian
Breweries Golden Pen Awards ceremony would hold on Friday
October 6, 2017
where winners would be announced. Winners will emerge in the three categories
of the award: the Nigerian Breweries Golden Pen Reporter of the Year, the Nigerian
Breweries Golden Pen Photojournalist of the Year and the Nigerian Breweries
Report of the Year.
According to him, the prizes have also
been reviewed upwards.
“The Nigerian Breweries Golden Pen
Reporter of the Year will get a cash prize of N2m plus a gift item. The first
runner up will get N1m while the second runner up will go home with N750,000,”
he said
He added that in the Photojournalist
category, the overall winner would receive N1m plus a gift item while the first
and second runners up would be rewarded with N750,000 and N500,000
respectively.
“The winner of the Nigerian Breweries
Golden Pen Report of the Year will receive N1m and a gift item,” he disclosed.
In the previous three editions, the
focus of the award was on the role of the media in setting agenda for the
future of Nigeria with the theme – education, youth empowerment and talent
development.
With the completion of the three-year
focus on education, youth empowerment and talent development, Ekanem said, that
the company was directing the attention of the Nigerian media to agriculture,
local sourcing and industrial development as the themes for the 9th Nigerian
Breweries Golden Pen Award.
The golden pen award is a great initiative taken by the media and the breweries is also doing great job to expand it. More and more entries should be done to make it bigger.
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