By Oluwagbenga Bankole
Nigerian Breweries Plc has
announced plans for the 7th edition of its Golden Pen Awards. The
company made the announcement recently at a press briefing held at the
company’s headquarters in Lagos.
Informing the media of the plans
for the 7th edition of the award, the company’s Corporate Affairs
Adviser, Kufre Ekanem said this year’s award would retain the same mechanisms used
last year where journalists and media houses are expected to send in entries
based on selected themes to encourage media focus on critical sectors of the
Nigerian economy.
Ekanem said that Education, Youth Empowerment
and Talent Development have been chosen as the focus areas for this year’s
award and journalists and their media houses can send in reports covering this
subject area published between January 1 and December 31 2014.
According to him, collection of entries
commenced on Tuesday, July 28, 2015 and close on Friday, September 21, 2015.
All entries are to be sent to the independent coordinating agency, Mediacraft
Associates via goldenpen2015@mediacraft.ng
or at its corporate office, at 7 Okunola Aina Street, Mende, Maryland, Lagos.
Mediacraft Associates will
collate all entries submitted for assessment by a jury. The jury will analyse the
reports and photographs for their Originality, News Value, Use of Resources,
Credibility and factuality. Other areas of interest would include
Info-graphics, Lay out/Headline, Clarity and Social impact.
Speaking further, the Corporate Affairs Adviser detailed the categories
of the award and the prizes to be won to include: The Nigerian
Breweries Golden Pen Reporter of the Year (Special statuette + N1, 000,
000.00); first runner up for the Nigerian Breweries Golden Pen Reporter of the
Year (Special statuette + N300, 000.00) and second runner up for the Nigerian
Breweries Golden Pen Reporter of the Year (Special statuette + N200, 000.00).
Others are: The Golden Pen Nigerian
Breweries Report of the Year (Special statuette + N500, 000.00); The Nigerian
Breweries Golden Pen Photojournalist of the Year (Special statuette + N300,
000.00); first runner up for the Nigerian Breweries Photojournalist of the Year
(Special statuette + N250, 000.00) and second runner up for the Nigerian
Breweries Photojournalist of the Year (Special statuette + N200, 000.00). Winners will be announced and awarded their
prizes at the 7th Nigerian Breweries Golden Pen Award ceremony in
October 2015.
The Nigerian Breweries Golden Pen
Award was inaugurated in 2008 to celebrate Nigerian journalists and to promote
professionalism and objective reportage of events in corporate Nigeria. It is
also meant to reward journalists who abide by the fine ethics of the
profession.
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