Jufikar Ali Manik, a special correspondent of the Dhaka Tribune, won the Shagor-Runi Award of Dhaka Reporters Unity (DRU) for his investigative report on the attack on Buddhists in Ramu.
The report titled ‘A Devil’s Design’ was published in The Daily Star on October 14, 2012, before he joined this paper. Manik received Tk100,000, a crest and a certificate.
Dhaka University Vice-Chancellor AAMS Arefin Siddique gave away the prizes after the annual general meeting of DRU on Friday. Ten other reporters of different print and electronic media received awards in different categories, each receiving Tk50,000, a crest and certificate.
Sharifuzzaman Pintu of Prothom Alo was awarded for reporting on education, Kazi Hafiz of Kaler Kantha for reporting on election and democracy, Selim Jahid of Prothom Alo for political affairs, Reazuddin of Alokito Bangladesh for foreign affairs, Parimal Shaha Titu of Vhorer Kagoj for city problems, Jharna Mani of Vhorer Kagoj for liberation war affairs, Mazumder Babu of Channel-24 for economic affairs, Rokonuddin of NTV for city problems, Mostofa Mallick of Channel-i for humanistic report, and Abu Hanif Rana of online media Report.Com-24 for development affairs.