PANAJI: The
Times of India
walked away with the maximum awards at the
Goa Union of Journalists
(GUJ) Journalism Awards for 2018, 2019 and 2020, which were declared on Saturday. Five journalists from TOI bagged seven awards.
Gauree Malkarnekar was declared winner of the 2018 award for excellence in investigative journalism (in honour of Lambert Mascarenhas) for the report ‘A house for Mr Sahni’, while
Newton Sequeira
won the honour in the same category for 2019 for his report ‘Ghost industrial estates’.
For 2019, the award for excellence in art and culture journalism was won by
Marcus Mergulhao
for his report ‘Pensao: Inheriting a legacy of praying for unknown property bequeathers’. He was also awarded for excellence in sports journalism 2020 for his report on match-fixing in Goan football.
Sharmila Coutinho
also picked up two awards— excellence in layout and page design for 2019 and cartooning for 2020.
Rakesh Mundye won the excellence in environmental photography award (in honour of Cyril Dcunha) for 2020.
The date for the prize-distribution function will be announced later by GUJ.
Judges for the awards were senior journalists
Sandesh Prabhudesai
, Anant Salkar and photojournalist
Sandeep Naik
.
All participants were awarded participation certificates by the judges and special guest,
Abhishek Ranjan Singh
, chairperson of the Delhi-based Dr
Ram Manohar Lohia Foundation
.
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