The BEAT shortlisted for FCJ Excellence Awards
The BEAT newspaper has been shortlisted for the coveted Forum for Community Journalists Excellence Awards.
The BEAT newspaper has been shortlisted for the coveted Forum for Community Journalists Excellence Awards.
Your favourite newspaper, together with sister publication, Die Pos/The Post, have been shortlisted for the category of best headline-writing.
The BEAT editor, Johnny Masilela, was quick to attribute the nomination to “a team effort”.
“From time to time I would come up with a headline for the front page, and would seek the opinion of the reporters as to the intended effect. Yes indeed, this is a team effort,” he said.
The BEAT is on the best headline-writing shortlist alongside editors from Die Pos/The Post, Vaalweekblad, The Village News. Kalahari Bulletin, Bloemfontein Courant, Roodepoort Northsider and Potchefstroom Herald.
Masilela, the reigning Caxton Excellence Awards Best Columnist of the Year, has also been shortlisted for the FCJ Excellence Awards in the category of best columnist of the year, a regular piece which he writes for Die Pos/The Post.
According to FCJ awards convenor of the panel of judges, Fanie Groenewald, there had been an increase of about 20% in the number of entries for this leg of the annual awards, comparable to previous years.
The awards had received entries from upwards of 130 journalists from more than 80 local newspapers, in all the nine provinces.
In unveiling the shortlists, Groenewald said the impression of the judges was that local newspapers were still very much alive in South Africa.
“They are indeed serving their communities very well,” he declared.
Die Pos/The Post editor, Keina Swart, has also been shortlisted in the category of best headline-writing.
Swart and her colleagues, Willie Nel, is on the shortlist for best front page design, while reporter Ronél van Jaarsveld was shortlisted in the category of hard news.
Award-winning Die Pos/The Post photographer, Herman Steyn, is on the shortlist for best sports photo.
The awards were scheduled to be conferred on Friday 29 June, at a gala dinner at the Leriba Hotel and Spa in Centurion.
– The BEAT
