Nigerian Breweries Golden Pen Award Gets Date!

Nigerian Breweries Plc has completed plans to hold the 2014 Golden Pen Awards. The company said the ceremony is slated to hold on Monday, June 30, 2014 at the Lantana Hall of the Eko Hotel, Victoria Island, Lagos by 5pm.

According to the company, a total of 102 entries were received when submission closed for the award which focuses on published reports on Education and Youth Empowerment in 2013. The award will reward journalists who submitted outstanding reports in these subject areas.

The award, which is the 6th in the series will reward ‘The NB Golden Pen Reporter of the Year’ with a special statuette and N1, 000, 000.00, (One million Naira), the ‘First runner up in the NB Golden Pen Reporter of the Year’ category with a Special statuette and N300, 000.00, while the ‘Second runner up NB Golden Pen Reporter of the Year’ will get a Special statuette and N200, 000.00. ‘The NB Golden Pen Photojournalist of the Year’ will get a Special statuette and N300, 000.00; the ‘First runner up NB Photojournalist of the Year’ will get a Special statuette and N250, 000.0, while the ‘Second runner up NB Photojournalist of the Year’ will get a Special statuette and N200, 000.00. A Special statuette and N500, 000.00 will be awarded for the ‘NB Report of the year’. Winning journalists will also get ipads and Samsung galaxy tablets.

The company says that the award criteria of quality, professionalism and objectivity will remain the filters upon which entries will be shortlisted for the awards. The independent judging panel will analyse the reports and photographs for their Originality, News Value, Use of Resources, Credibility and factuality. Other areas of interest would include Info-graphics, Lay out/Headline, Clarity and Social impact.

Nigerian Breweries Plc inaugurated the Golden Pen Awards to promote professional and objective reportage of events in Nigeria. Since its inception, it has produced six winners in the Journalist of the year category and three others in the Photo Journalist of the year category.