The Panel of Judges for the National Journalism Awards on Thursday, October 8th at 10pm published the final list of nominees that will proceed to the finals of the 2020 awards, a press release by GPU has said.
The release on Sunday said out of the 33 stories that made it at the preliminary nominations, three were found to have missed some key criteria and therefore disqualified.
“These stories were not dropped due to substantive contents, rather, some new information emerged after a thorough review of all shortlisted nominations leading to their disqualification,” Chairperson of the Panel of Judges, Mrs. Fatim Badjie-Sinyan said, according to the release.
The release signed by Demba Ali Jawo Chairperson, National Journalism Awards Committee, added: “A key challenge faced by the judges this year is that they did not conduct their work physically as done in past years due to Covid-19 restrictions. They had to work very hard to assess all the over 200 submissions online.
“A review of bids to broadcast the virtual event by the Communications sub Committee also saw Eye Africa TV emerge as winner of the tender process. They will begin work tomorrow Monday into final preparations for the event on October 24th, at the Kairaba International Conference Centre.
“Every effort has been made to maintain a credible vetting process for the maintenance of public trust and confidence in the competitiveness of the National Journalism Awards.”
