Pakistani gets ADBI journalist of the year award
ISLAMABAD: A Pakistani journalist took one of the three top honours on April 7, night in the first Developing Asia Journalism awards in Tokyo organized by the Asian Development Bank Institute (ADBI).
Massoud Ansari, an investigative reporter from Newsline magazine, was named “Development journalist of the year” in a ceremony held at the Foreign Correspondents’ Club of Japan.
Ansari also took first prize in the good governance and anti-corruption category. Other award winners from Pakistan included two Dawn reporters, Afshan Subohi Hyder, who placed first runner-up in the pro-poor sustainable economic growth category and second runner-up in the regional co-operation and integration for development category, and Zofeen T. Ebrahim, who remained first runner-up in the inclusive social development category.
Ma Guihua of China Features was awarded the “Woman Development journalist of the year” award, while Tran Thi Le Thuy, a reporter with Vietnam Economic Times, was named “Young Development journalist of the year”.
Over 250 reports were submitted for the awards by 89 entrants from across the ADB’s developing member countries. From these, 20 finalists, who were invited to the ceremony in Tokyo, and the eventual winners were selected by a jury of three, which included presiding judge Anthony Rowley, Tokyo Correspondent of the Business Times of Singapore and Field Editor for Oxford Analytica, Yoshio Murakami, Adviser on International Affairs to the Asahi Shimbun and Suvendrini Kakuchi, a Sri Lankan journalist reporting for Inter Press Service.
Rowley said, “We three judges … were each very impressed by the overall high standard of entries for this, the first of the ADBI Developing Asia Journalism awards.”
Source: Business Recorder
Date:4/9/2004
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