ANCL bags awards at Journalism Awards

The 24th edition of the annual Journalism Awards for Excellence was held at the Mount Lavinia Hotel today.

The awards night is organised by the Editors’ Guild of Sri Lanka in partnership with the Sri Lanka Press Institute and its affiliated unions, the Newspaper Society of Sri Lanka, Free Media Movement and the Sri Lanka Working Journalists Association.

The annual event is held to recognise professional excellence in journalism and award those who excel in it. This year, 36 journalists received the ‘Pen Trophy’ Award and 16 others received Certificates of Merit, along with five Lifetime Achievement Awardees: H. L. D. Mahindapala, Stanley Samarasinghe, Seetha Ranjanee, S. Thillainathan and A. L. M. Nilam.

The Associated Newspapers of Ceylon Limited (ANCL) won several and Dinamina paper won the merit award for the best creative newspaper of the year.

In addition, Subashini Jayaratne of Silumina newspaper won the award for the best environmental reporting of the year. Subramaniam Chettiar Award for Best Social Event Reporting of the Year went to Tania Moses of Silumina Newspaper. The scoop of the year award was given to Tharaka Wickrasamasekara of Silumina newspaper.

Best sports journalist of the year was won by Fauz Mohammed for Silumina Newspaper.

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