Winners of WMS Global Awards for Excellence on mainstream Bangladesh media

A large number of mainstream Bangladesh media outlets published news on winners of the first- ever World Media Summit Global Awards for Excellence.

Bangladesh media reports have focused largely on the Bangladeshi female journalist who won Honorable Mention in the World Media Summit (WMS) Global Awards for Excellence 2014 in Beijing.

Sheuli Akter, special correspondent and editor of Bangladesh’s NsNewsWire, earned an honorable mention in the Exemplary News Professionals in Developing Countries category.

Leading Bangladeshi newspapers including The Financial Express, Prothom Alo, The Daily Observer, The Independent, The Daily Sun, The New Nation and The New Age have published news on Wednesday on Sheuli Akter and other winners of the first-ever World Media Summit Global Awards for Excellence.

Bangladesh Sangbad Sangstha (BSS), national news agency of Bangladesh, and many other online agencies including banglanews24. com, thereport24.com, risingbd.com, breakingnews.com.bd and NsNewsWire have also given published news on Sheuli Akter’s awarding winning.

WMS Global Awards for Excellence 2014 announced winners and honorable mentions on Monday.

The awards’ board of judges was chaired by Li Congjun, WMS executive chairman, chairman of the judging committee and president of China’s Xinhua News Agency.

The judges were drawn from WMS presidium member organizations, including the Associated Press, TASS, Kyodo News, Al Jazeera and Kasturi & Sons Limited.

Veteran newsmen from international media organizations, including Agence France-Presse, Polish Press Agency, Hearst Corporation and Paris Match, were also on the panel, notably David Schlesinger, former editor-in-chief of Reuters News, and Jack Gao, former senior vice president of News Corporation.

Al Jazeera English was awarded the prize for news teams in developing countries.

The media innovation award went to Behind the Bloodshed, a USA Today investigative report, which examined FBI data as well as local police records and media reports to understand mass killings in America.

The award for new media was given to Myanmar Emerges, by GlobalPost of the U.S. The multimedia report described Myanmar’s emergence as one of the most important economic, political and cultural stories of 2013. GlobalPost spent much of the year reporting from inside the country, from the shopping malls and recording studios of Yangon, to the copper mines of Kyisintaung Mountain.

The nominating panels have recommended 36 finalists to the board of judges, including Sheuli Akter of NsNewsWire in Bangladesh, who later won honorable mention of Award for Exemplary News Professionals in Developing Countries.

Sainath Palagummi of The Hindu in India was announced the award winner of this category.

Sheuli Akter’s NsNewsWire was one of over 450 news organizations and more than 500 news practitioners from 138 countries and regions that have submitted 1,424 entries in total.

Sheuli Akter, daughter of Senior Financial Express Journalist Mahbubur Rashid, has more than a decade of experience working as journalist in Bangladesh. Prior to joining in NsNewsWire, she had worked in Bangladesh’s now-defunct leading newspaper The Bangladesh Observer and UNB, a leading news agency.