It is always a joy to win award, and even happier that the team you lead almost bag all the awards. Here is one for record -
KUCHING: The Borneo Post Phyllis Wong led
her team in sweeping 13 awards at the coveted Kenyalang Shell Press
Awards 2013 on Friday night.
Wong was given the acknowledgement of
the Kenyalang Shell Journalism Laureate in recognition of her
contributions to journalism in the state. The laureate was an inaugural
award accorded to practising journalists with 25 years of experience and
above, which was to mark the silver anniversary of the Kenyalang Shell
Press Awards this year.
The Borneo Post, together with its Sunday edition thesundaypost, also bagged awards in several categories.
For the News Reporting Award, Geryl Ogilvy Ruekeith came in first, Peter Sibon second and Wilfred Syed Pilo third.
The
Sports Reporting Award was also dominated by the paper, with Cheng Lian
Hiok bagging the first prize, Philip Wong second and Ting Tieng Hee
third, while business journalists Ronnie Teo, Puthankattil Krishnan Venu
and Jonathan Sumbang Wong swept the top three prizes for the Business
& Economic Reporting Award.
Karen Bong and Joanna Yap won
first prize for the Feature and News Feature Award and Environmental
Journalism Award respectively, while Geryl Ogilvy Ruekeith bagged the
second prize for the Health News Reporting Award.
Meanwhile, The
Borneo Post’s sister paper See Hua Daily News bagged 11 awards under the
Chinese Language category with a clean sweep of the Environment
Journalism Awards.
The Malay language sister paper Utusan Borneo
got seven awards, dominating the Business & Economic Reporting
Awards. Utusan Borneo reporter Jacqueline David obtained third prize in
the inaugural award for News Reporting in Iban Language.
A total of 373 entries were received this year, an increase of 52 per cent compared to last year.
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