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Winners of the Lifetime Achievement Awards: From left: Upali Tennakoon's representative Nimal Jayakody, Pushpa Liyanage, R.A.E. Raman, Sa'adi Thawfeeq and Alexander Balasuriya.
Recognising and celebrating journalism that strives for excellence is vital to strengthening the profession in Sri Lanka. To this end, the Editors’ Guild of Sri Lanka, together with the Sri Lanka Press Institute and its affiliated unions—the Newspaper Society of Sri Lanka, the Free Media Movement, and the Sri Lanka Working Journalists’ Association—organises an annual awards ceremony to honour achievements in the print media.
The Journalism Awards for Excellence 2024 took place on Tuesday at the Mount Lavinia Hotel, with former Justice Ministry Secretary Nihal Jayawickrema serving as chief guest. As in previous years, five senior journalists were presented with the prestigious Lifetime Achievement Award.
Our pictures show the highlights of the event as journalists who excelled in their beats received their awards.
Chief Guest Dr Nihal Jayawickrema lights the traditional oil lamp
Buwanaka S. Perera of Ceylon Today receives the Upali Wijewardene Award for the best feature writer from Wijeya Newspapers Ltd. Deputy Chairman Sujan Wijewardene
Chief Guest Dr. Nihal Jayawickrema receives a token of appreciation from SLPI Chairman Kumar Nadesan and Editors’ Guild President Siri Ranasinghe
The Sunday Times web manager Ramesh Kandasamy with the best designed website award
The Sunday Times design team receives the award for the best designed newspaper from Free Media Movement Convener Lasantha de Silva
The investigative jouranlist of the year goes to Nirmala Dushyanthi Kannangara of Daily Mirror. She receives the award from Mohanlal Piyadasa, Secretary, The Editors’ Guild of Sri Lanka
Tamil Mirror.lk, the Tamil language epaper of the Wijeya Newspapers Ltd., wins the best designed Tamil online news website of the year award from Kanishka Sugatadasa, head of the panel of judges, and Isuri Alahakoon, Cooperate Communications Manager, Dialog Axiata PLC. The WNL web team also collected the merits awards for Ada.lk and Daily Mirror.lk
Entertainment events punctuated the awards ceremony - Pix by Indilka Handuwala
A section of the invitees
The Sepala Gunasena Award for Defending Press Freedom in Sri Lanka goes to Amal Jayasinghe. He is seen receivig the award from Editors' Guild member Prabath Sahabandu
The Daily Mirror's Awantha Atygalle, receives the Cartoonist of the Year award from Sri Lanka Working Journalists Association President Duminda Sampath
Kushan Pathiraja of Daily Mirror receives the Best Photojournalist of the Year award from Daily Mirror Editor Jamila Hussain
M.S.M. Ayub of Daily Mirror receives the B.A. Siriwardena Columnist of the Year (English) award from The Editors’ Guild of Sri Lanka member Pradeep Dassanayake
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