Dhaka Tribune yesterday won this year’s DRU-Grameenphone awards for best reporting in two categories - political reporting and heath reporting.
Dhaka Reporters Unity and Grameeenphone handed over awards to all 27 winning reporters in a total of 25 categories through a colourful award ceremony organised at Pan Pacific Sonargaon Hotel yesterday afternoon.
Dhaka Tribune’s report of journalist Julfikar Ali Manik titled “Chronicles of a crippled district” published on May 13 this year won the award in the political reporting category and journalist Moniruzzaman Uzzal’s report titled “Tk15 drug bought for Tk700!” published on November 30 last year won the award in the health reporting category.
Information Minister Hasanul Haq Inu handed over crests, Vice-Chancellor of Dhaka University Prof AAMS Arefin Siddique handed over the certificates of achievement and Marcus Adaktusson, Grameenphone’s head of communications, handed over the prize money to the winning reporters.
Inu said: “The democracy that we are enjoying now, you [journalists] have played a significant role in achieving this.” He said: “Mass media cannot be bearer of propaganda and superstition.”
Some of the awards among the 25 categories were exclusively for television reporting, some were for print media and some for online reporting.
At the programme, a crest and a certificate was given to all winners. A prize money of Tk1 lakh was only given in three categories which were the Sagar-Runi Memorial Award for investigative reporting, DRU’s founding president Shafiqul Kabir Memorial Award for reporting on Liberation War and Pathik Saha Memorial Award for reporting on ICT. In rest 22 categories prize money was Tk75,000.
