Ghana journalists win US$11k prize

  1. Posted on Wednesday 8 June 2011 - 08:30
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    Kent Mensah, AfricaNews editor in Accra, Ghana
    Ace Ghana investigative journalist Anas Aremeyaw Anas and his team at the New Crusading Guide have been adjudged winners of the 2009 Karpoor Chnandra 'Kulish' Award for Excellence in Print Journalism. India prime minister Manmohan Singh conferred the prize on the Ghanaian team with a cash reward of US$11,000, a medal and a certificate.
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    The team came top with their stories on Ghana's Madhouse and Chinese Sex Mafia. At the award ceremony held at New Delhi, the prime minister said that media has crucial role in a democracy and should strive for stability and mitigating tension in the society. Indian media should also help preserve the values, culture and identitiy of the nation. He critisized the trend of paid news and sensational journalism.

    The award set up in the memory of founder of the Patrika group recognizes the outstanding work of the team of journalists published in a daily newspaper. The theme for this year award was 'Inclusive Development'. The jury panel for the award included Gloria Brown Anderson of The New York Times, S. Gurumurthy, journalist, Yoginder K Alagh, Chairman, IRMA, and Gulab Kothari, Editor-in- Chief, Patrika group.

    Seven outstanding stories were also awarded for merit awards. Dayashankar Shukla from Hindustan ( story Farzi Khate from Hindustan) ; Vinod Kumar ( story Kerala Yatra from Malayala Manorama, Kottayam); Zara Murao ( story Inspired India from Hindustan Times) ; Santosh Singh ( story 42 Harassed many in Jail from The Indian Express), Reji Joseph ( story The Priest with the Midas Touch from Deepika Daily, Kottayam) received the medal and certificate from Ambika Soni, Minister, I &B and Dr CP Joshi, Minister, Road Trasport.

    Prisoners of Ignorance and tradition from La Opinion, Los Angeles; Missing Person of Balochistan from Daily Jang, Quetta, Balochistan, Pakistan were also among the merit winners.

    Anas, Mary Fianko Akuffo and Selease Kove- Seyram - a team of journalists from The New Crusading Guide, Accra, Ghana named overall winners for their investigative story campaigns titled ‘Undercover inside Ghana's Madhouse & Undercover inside the Chinese Sex Mafia’. These campaigns have been an outcome of a seven month investigated work across four regions -South Africa, Burkina Faso, Ghana and Sweden where the leader of the team posed as a psychiatric patient to uncover significant issues of discrimination and activities of charlatans in relation to mental illness and the various approaches to its cure.

    As a result of the story, the parliament of Ghana is drafted the mental health bill. In another campaign the Chinese sex mafia was busted and three traffickers were imprisoned for 41 years and the rescued girls were rehabilitated with the intervention of Chinese government.

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