Journalists with the Best Coverage of Disability Issues Awarded
The award ceremony of the 9th mass media competition entitled ”Equal Opportunities” took place on December 9. The competition was hosted by the “Bridge of Hope” and “Mission East” organizations.
According to them the articles had to represent the issues of disability, positive examples to overcome those issues and to contribute to building of equal opportunities for disabled people. The articles also had to preserve ethics of shooting and recording people with disabilities.
This year 44 journalists from Yerevan and from the regions of Armenia took part in ”Arevatsaghik” (”Sunflower”) media competition. Overall 60 works were submitted, 40 out of them were stories from the print media, 5 from radio and 15 from TV.
Journalist Liana Minasyan of ”Shoghakat” TV won the 1st prize for the “Best video”, the 2nd prize was awarded to Hasmik Smbatyan, reporter of “Radio Liberty”, and the 3rd prize went to “Ar” TV journalist Armine Oleyan.
This time nobody was awarded with the 1st prize for the “Best print article”. Arpi Maghakyan from Haynews.am won the 2nd prize for the same nomination and Parandzem Hovhannisyan from Medialab.am – the 3rd prize.
No prizes were awarded also for the “Best radio story” nomination.
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