Vision Group journalists win sports journalism awards

Dec 18, 2017

New Vision’s award winning photographer Michael Nsubuga and Bukedde’s Nicholas Kalyango were first and second runners up respectively in the Sports Photograph of the Year category while Bukedde TV cameraman Ramazani Kakooza was also runner up in the Breakthrough Journalist of the Year category.

Three Vision Group journalists stepped to the podium as the second edition of the Uganda Journalist Choice Awards ended over the weekend.


The awards  focuses on rewarding excellence and recognize the work of sports journalists across print, digital, television and radio mediums as well as photography in the country.


This year's categories included; Breakthrough Journalist of the Year, Sports Social Media Journalist of the Year, Young Sports Journalist of the Year, Regional Sports Journalist of the Year and Sports Website of the Year.


The other categories were Sports Scoop of the Year, Sports Photograph of the Year, Sports Feature of the Year (TV, Radio, Print and Online), Sports News Report -Broadcast (Radio and TV) as well as Sports Journalist of the Year.


New Vision's award winning photographer Michael Nsubuga and Bukedde's Nicholas Kalyango were first and second runners up respectively in the Sports Photograph of the Year category while Bukedde TV cameraman Ramazani Kakooza was also runner up in the Breakthrough Journalist of the Year category.


Red Pepper's John Batanudde and Brian Kawalya took the honours respectively in both categories bagging some of the cash prizes that were on offer for every category winner.


Monitor's Darren Kyeyune was the biggest winner of the night scooping three awards including the Sports Journalist of the Year Award. Kyeyune, 24, took the Young Sports Journalist of the Year Award and the Sports Social Media Journalist of the year awards and now has the most collection of awards over the two years.


NBS TV's Daniel Sebakijje and Alsayed Lubega walked away with the Sports News Report as well as Sports Feature of the Year awards respectively while Javier Omagor (Step Radio) won the Regional Sports Journalist of the Year gong.


Judges led by David Lumu observed that there was no submitted entry that broke an important sports issue, aside from the Sports Scoop of the Year category. Lumu noted that there was an improvement in the quality of stories submitted.
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