PHOTO: L-R- state broadcaster logo and FrontpageAfrica’s Editor Lennart Dodoo-far right
By Our Staff Writer
The state broadcaster, Liberia Broadcasting System (LBS) has won both the Best Radio Station and the Best TV Station of the year, with FrontpageAfrica winning the Best Newspaper of the year Awards for outstanding performance, given by the Press Union of Liberia (PUL) in its 2019/2020 edition held on Friday, February 26, 2020.
This was announced by the PUL Awards committee headed by broadcast Journalist Horatio Bobby Willie at the Annual Awards night dinner held at the Paynesville City Hall outside Monrovia.
After ELBC 99.9 and LNTV were announced as double award winners, the controversial Deputy Information Minister for Public Affairs, Eugene Fahghon who was sitting among the platform guests, exclaimed in the local Liberian parlance:’ Yor see, da government radio and Tv winning award, oh!’
Due to the COVID-19 pandemic in 2020, the award ceremony for that year had to be deferred to now.
Power TV’s Editor Anthony Stephens, who is currently in Switzerland covering the war crimes trial of a former rebel general, won the Journalist of the Year Award.
Anthony Stephens
Other winners of awards in the individual categories are:
of LBS, Newscaster of the year,
of FrontpageAfrica, Sport Reporter of the year,
of the Daily Observer newspaper, Health Reporter of the year,
of LBS, Executive Mansion Reporter of the year, Onesimus Garway Humanitarian Reporter of the year,
of Bush Chicken online magazine, Reproductive Health & Rights Reporter of the year,
of Power TV also won Extractive Industry Reporter of the year,
of Bush Chicken, Women’s Rights Reporter of the Year
Peter Toby of Truth FM, Judicial Reporter of the Year
Winston Blyden of Bana FM won Legislative Reporter of the year
There were many community radio stations in the various counties that won awards for outstanding performance at Friday evening’s ceremony.
More details will follow subsequently.