{"id":105501,"date":"2022-12-11T15:13:27","date_gmt":"2022-12-11T15:13:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/websitedesigns.com.au\/elankanew\/?p=105501"},"modified":"2022-12-11T15:21:35","modified_gmt":"2022-12-11T15:21:35","slug":"journalism-awards-for-excellence-2021-23rd-edition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/websitedesigns.com.au\/elankanew\/journalism-awards-for-excellence-2021-23rd-edition\/","title":{"rendered":"JOURNALISM AWARDS FOR EXCELLENCE 2021 23rd Edition"},"content":{"rendered":"<header class=\"inner-h\">\n<h2 class=\"innerheader\" style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">JOURNALISM AWARDS FOR EXCELLENCE 2021 23rd Edition<\/span><\/h2>\n<p><strong><span style=\"font-size: 16px; color: #800080;\">Source:<\/span><\/strong><a style=\"color: #000000;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymirror.lk\/news-features\/JOURNALISM-AWARDS-FOR-EXCELLENCE-2021-23rd-Edition\/131-250151\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Dailymirror<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 16px; color: #000000;\"><big><strong>The annual programme is to recognize professionalism in journalism and reward those who have excelled<\/strong><\/big><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 16px; color: #000000;\"><big><strong>This year 34 journalists will receive the \u2018Pen Trophy\u2019 Award and 17 others will receive\u00a0 Certificates of\u00a0 Merit along with 05 Lifetime Achievement Awardees<\/strong><\/big><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 16px; color: #000000;\"><big><strong>The main sponsors are John Keells Holdings, Dialog, LOLC, Sri Lanka Insurance\u00a0 Corporation and Olu bottled water. Other sponsors are: Sri Lanka Cricket and Insee Cement<\/strong><\/big><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 16px; color: #000000;\"><big><strong>A total of 251 applications from nine newspaper publishing groups was received by the distinguished 8-member independent Panel of Judges this year<\/strong><\/big><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 16px; color: #000000;\">The 23rd edition of the annual Journalism Awards for Excellence programme culminating with the \u2018Awards Night\u2019 will be held in the Empire Ballroom of the Mount Lavinia Hotel on Tuesday, December 13.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 16px; color: #000000;\">The programme is organized by The Editors\u2019 Guild of Sri Lanka in partnership with the Sri Lanka Press Institute and its affiliated unions, the Newspaper Society of Sri Lanka, Free Media Movement and the Sri Lanka Working Journalists Association.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 16px; color: #000000;\">The annual programme is to recognize professionalism in journalism and reward those who have excelled.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 16px; color: #000000;\">This year 34 journalists will receive the \u2018Pen Trophy\u2019 Award and 17 others will receive\u00a0 Certificates of\u00a0 Merit along with 05 Lifetime Achievement Awardees namely: Mr. Daya Lankapura, Mr. A. D. Ranjith Kumara, Mr. P. Manikavasagam, Mrs. Chitra Weerarathna and Mr. P. B. Elangasinha. (There profile appears below).\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 16px; color: #000000;\">A young reporter will be sent by the Lakshman Kadirgamar scholarship to the leading Indian college of Journalism, MASCOM in Kerala, India. The scholar will be flown by SriLankan\u00a0 Airlines. Chief Editor Manik de Silva of the Sunday Island will be the Chief Guest at the event this year.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 16px; color: #000000;\">The main sponsors are John Keells Holdings, Dialog, LOLC, Sri Lanka Insurance\u00a0 Corporation and Olu bottled water. Other sponsors are: Sri Lanka Cricket and Insee Cement.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: 16px; color: #000000;\">The Mount Lavinia Hotel is the host-hotel.\u00a0 A total of 251 applications from nine newspaper publishing groups was received by the distinguished 8-member independent Panel of Judges this year, said Journalism Awards for\u00a0 Excellence Convener Sukumar Rockwood.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 16px; color: #000000;\"><strong>This year entries were received for 17 categories, which are listed below:\u00a0\u00a0<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<ul style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<li><span style=\"font-size: 16px; color: #000000;\">\u00a0Mervyn de Silva Journalist of the Year\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: 16px; color: #000000;\">\u00a0Scoop of the Year\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: 16px; color: #000000;\">\u00a0Investigative Journalist of the Year\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: 16px; color: #000000;\">\u00a0Best Environmental Reporter of the Year\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: 16px; color: #000000;\">\u00a0Subramaniyam Chettiar Award for Reporting on\u00a0Social Issues\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: 16px; color: #000000;\">\u00a0Sports Journalist of the Year\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: 16px; color: #000000;\">\u00a0Denzil Peiris Young Reporter of the Year (Under\u00a026 years)\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: 16px; color: #000000;\">\u00a0Photojournalist of the Year\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: 16px; color: #000000;\">\u00a0Best Designed Newspaper of the Year\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: 16px; color: #000000;\">\u00a0Business and Finance Journalist of the Year\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: 16px; color: #000000;\">\u00a0Upali Wijewardene Feature Writer of the Year\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: 16px; color: #000000;\">\u00a0Cartoonist of the Year\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: 16px; color: #000000;\">\u00a0B. A. Siriwardena Columnist of the Year\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: 16px; color: #000000;\">\u00a0Prof. K. Kailasapathy Award for Reporting\u00a0under Special Circumstances\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: 16px; color: #000000;\">\u00a0Best News or Feature using RTI\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: 16px; color: #000000;\">\u00a0Best Health Care and Medical Reporter of the Year\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: 16px; color: #000000;\">\u00a0Best News Website<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 16px; color: #000000;\"><big><strong>LIFETIME ACHIEVEMENT AWARDS\u00a0\u00a0<\/strong><\/big><\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: 16px; color: #000000;\">This year the Life Time Achievement Award will be presented to the following senior journalists who have served the profession.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 16px; color: #000000;\"><big><strong>Mr. Daya Lankapura\u00a0\u00a0<\/strong><\/big><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 16px; color: #000000;\"><big><strong><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/bmkltsly13vb.compat.objectstorage.ap-singapore-1.oraclecloud.com\/cdn.sg.dailymirror.lk\/assets\/uploads\/image_19704aa682.jpg\" \/><\/strong><\/big><\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: 16px; color: #000000;\">Mr. Daya Lankapura, has served in the media field for over 55 years. He began his\u00a0 journalistic career at the Aththa newspaper as a reporter in 1966 while studying at the\u00a0 Colombo University. He joined the daily Divaina editorial staff of the Upali Newspapers\u00a0 Limited at its inception and served there as parliamentary and political reporter.\u00a0 Subsequently, he joined Lake House briefly as the deputy editor for the Dinamina in 1994\u00a0 and later associate editor, Silumina and editor of Janatha from May 1994 to May 2004. He\u00a0 later accepted the post of news editor, Sunday Rivira. He also served as Night Editor,\u00a0 Lakbima, News Editor, Irudina, News Editor and Editorial Adviser to Divaina. During this period he was editor of the Information Department\u2019s web site, news.lk until July 2020. He\u00a0 has followed journalism courses in the Western Ontario University in Canada, Bradford\u00a0 University, Britain and the Media Training Institute in South Korea. He is currently a visiting\u00a0 lecturer at the mass media section of the Sri Pali Campus of the University of Colombo.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 16px; color: #000000;\"><big><strong>Mr. A .D. Ranjith Kumara\u00a0\u00a0<\/strong><\/big><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 16px; color: #000000;\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/bmkltsly13vb.compat.objectstorage.ap-singapore-1.oraclecloud.com\/cdn.sg.dailymirror.lk\/assets\/uploads\/image_2687c8aad7.jpg\" \/><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 16px; color: #000000;\">Mr. A. D. Ranjith Kumara, held the post of Editor in the weekly newspapers of Sarasaviya and Sarasi. He has been associated with journalism for five decades especially in the field\u00a0 of Cinema. He is a past student of Carey College and Ananda College, Colombo. Some of\u00a0 the books he wrote include: Kosgashandiya, Gamini Hela Cinemawe Sakvithi, Rukmani\u00a0 Devi Yugayaka Swarna Geethaya, Sinhala Cinemawe Ridi Rekava and Nova Paraniya Lipi\u00a0 Saranaiya. He has also served as a member on the Advisory Board of the State Literary\u00a0 Awards, Chief Organiser of the Sarasaviya Film Festival and the Sumathi Telefilm Festival.\u00a0 At Sumathi Group of Companies, he held the post of Working Director. He has also received\u00a0 the Ranapala Bodinagoda Cinema Literary Memorial Award, Cyril C. Perera Memorial\u00a0 Award. OCIC Award and the Sumathipala Memorial Award. He is a historian who\u00a0 researchers cinema. In 2017, he received the Presidential Award for Cinema Literature by\u00a0 the National Film Corporation.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 16px; color: #000000;\"><strong>Mr. Ponniah Manikavasagam\u00a0\u00a0<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 16px; color: #000000;\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/bmkltsly13vb.compat.objectstorage.ap-singapore-1.oraclecloud.com\/cdn.sg.dailymirror.lk\/assets\/uploads\/image_a5e8b76ccf.jpg\" \/><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 16px; color: #000000;\">Mr. Ponniah Manikavasagam known as P. Manikavasagam is a veteran journalist who\u00a0 worked amidst trying conditions for Virakesari for over four decades. His reporting on the conflict from the conflict zone was trues and accurate thereby earning the respect from both the local and foreign media. He was stringer for the BBC for 25 years until the BBC Tamil Radio Service was suspended in 2016 and Reuters for 10 years. He also had filed stories as a Sri Lanka Correspondent for Asia Calling of Indonesia and American Free Speech Radio News both web radios for several years. He has also won the Northeastern Provincial Governor\u2019s Award for journalism, the Kalabooshana Award and the Lifetime Achievement Award from the Ministry of Cultural Affairs.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 16px; color: #000000;\"><strong><big>Mrs. Chitra Weerarathna\u00a0\u00a0<\/big><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 16px; color: #000000;\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/bmkltsly13vb.compat.objectstorage.ap-singapore-1.oraclecloud.com\/cdn.sg.dailymirror.lk\/assets\/uploads\/image_6945c1c68c.jpg\" \/><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 16px; color: #000000;\">The Island journalist Mrs. Chitra Weerarathna had her primary and secondary education at Visakha Vidyalaya, Bambalapitiya, she earned a degree in natural sciences from the Colombo University before Chitra, as she is popularly known among scribes, cut her teeth in journalism at the now defunct Sun newspaper of the Independent Newspapers Group. She joined The Island in the early 90s and quickly carved a niche in the court rounds and no court was too small or too big for her, for the subject was literally in her blood being a\u00a0 daughter of late Supreme Court Justice T. A. De S. Wijesundera. On top of that two of her\u00a0 sisters too had followed in their father\u2019s footsteps. Chitra\u2019s late husband, Dr. Susil Weerarathna was a lecturer in Chemical Engineering at the Moratuwa University.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 16px; color: #000000;\"><strong>Mr. P. B. Elangasinha\u00a0\u00a0<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 16px; color: #000000;\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/bmkltsly13vb.compat.objectstorage.ap-singapore-1.oraclecloud.com\/cdn.sg.dailymirror.lk\/assets\/uploads\/image_e22e5fa032.jpg\" \/><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #000000; font-size: 16px;\">Mr. P. B. Elangasinha is an old boy of Dharmaraja College, Kandy. He joined Janatha\u00a0 Editorial of The Associated Newspapers of Ceylon Ltd (Lake House) as a trainee reporter in\u00a0 1965. He moved to the Silumina Editorial in 1970 and assumed duties as a Sub-Editor\u00a0 under Mr. S. Subasinghe, Editor of Silumina. He became the Deputy Editor of Silumina in\u00a0 1985. He then moved over to the Wijeya Group and joined Irida Lankadeepa Editorial in\u00a0 January 1995 and is at present its Deputy Editor.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<\/header>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>JOURNALISM AWARDS FOR EXCELLENCE 2021 23rd Edition Source:Dailymirror The annual programme is to recognize professionalism in journalism and reward those who have excelled This year 34 journalists will receive the \u2018Pen Trophy\u2019 Award and 17 others will receive\u00a0 Certificates of\u00a0 Merit along with 05 Lifetime Achievement Awardees The main sponsors are John Keells Holdings, Dialog, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":105528,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"aside","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[49972,49971,49973,49974],"class_list":{"0":"post-105501","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-aside","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-articles","8":"tag-mr-a-d-ranjith-kumara","9":"tag-mr-daya-lankapura","10":"tag-mr-p-manikavasagam","11":"tag-mrs-chitra-weerarathna","12":"post_format-post-format-aside"},"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v25.7.1 (Yoast SEO v25.9) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>JOURNALISM AWARDS FOR EXCELLENCE 2021 23rd Edition<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"The annual programme is to recognize professionalism in journalism and reward those who have excelled This year 34 journalists\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"noindex, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"JOURNALISM AWARDS FOR EXCELLENCE 2021 23rd Edition\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"The annual programme is to recognize professionalism in journalism and reward those who have excelled This year 34 journalists\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/websitedesigns.com.au\/elankanew\/journalism-awards-for-excellence-2021-23rd-edition\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"eLanka\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:publisher\" content=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/eLanka.com.au\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2022-12-11T15:13:27+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2022-12-11T15:21:35+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/websitedesigns.com.au\/elankanew\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/Mr.-Daya-Lankapura.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"320\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"274\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"eLanka admin\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"eLanka admin\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"7 minutes\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/websitedesigns.com.au\/elankanew\/journalism-awards-for-excellence-2021-23rd-edition\/#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/websitedesigns.com.au\/elankanew\/journalism-awards-for-excellence-2021-23rd-edition\/\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"eLanka admin\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/websitedesigns.com.au\/elankanew\/#\/schema\/person\/f6e635b74ab35ef88a68a9973cacc5bd\"},\"headline\":\"JOURNALISM AWARDS FOR EXCELLENCE 2021 23rd Edition\",\"datePublished\":\"2022-12-11T15:13:27+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2022-12-11T15:21:35+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/websitedesigns.com.au\/elankanew\/journalism-awards-for-excellence-2021-23rd-edition\/\"},\"wordCount\":1154,\"publisher\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/websitedesigns.com.au\/elankanew\/#organization\"},\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/websitedesigns.com.au\/elankanew\/journalism-awards-for-excellence-2021-23rd-edition\/#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/websitedesigns.com.au\/elankanew\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/Mr.-Daya-Lankapura.jpg\",\"keywords\":[\"Mr. A. 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