Singapore – MediaCorp News Awards 2014 celebrated its eighth year of winning journalistic works across its multiple news platforms on television, radio, print and online on July 30.
This year’s theme, “Tweet, Post, Share”, reflects the digital age where citizen journalism abounds and news first broke on the social network. Nominees and guests were encouraged to tweet and send instagrams to #mna2014sg even before the celebratory night.
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The awards night held at the Conrad Centennial Singapore, recognised winners in six categories:
- News Story of the Year
Winner: Get Rea! – Point Blank – TV
- Feature Story of the Year
Winner: The Haze Situation in Indonesia – Press
- Entertainment Story of the Year
Winner: Frontline – Remembering Huang Wenyong – TV
- Digital Initiative of the Year
Winner: Budget 2014: The Breakdown – Press
- Young Journalist of the Year
Winner: Lin Hui – Radio
- Journalist of the Year
Winner: Derek Goh Loh Junk – TV
Walter Fernandez, MediaCorp Editor-in-Chief said: “I would like to congratulate our winners. In a year of huge news stories, MediaCorp news teams consistently demonstrated their commitment to reporting events as they unfolded and providing perspectives that gave our viewers, listeners and readers a fuller appreciation of events. The teams produced excellent work across our TV, radio, print and online platforms, of which the best are being recognised tonight.”
A distinguished panel of local judges selected the winning entries from various news platforms – radio and press with nominations from television culled from April 1, 2013 to March 31, 2014.
Judge President Pericles Lewis, Founding President and Professor of Humanities of Yale-NUS College shared on what made good news and his thoughts of the submissions this year, said, “The submissions had a great range from local stories to international stories with in-depth reporting. I thought that was very impressive. On a good news story, I think timeliness is important, and that it has to contribute something to the current conversation and discourse. And then, I think thorough research is extremely important followed by good story-telling.”
