The BEAT recognised for excellence at highest level
The BEAT and our sister publication, Die Pos/The Post, can look back at the year 2018 with pride after being honoured at awards held at national level.
The BEAT and our sister publication, Die Pos/The Post, can look back at the year 2018 with pride after being honoured at awards held at national level.
The first to open up the floodgates — so to speak — was the 2017 Caxton Excellence Awards, in which both newspapers did extremely well.
Die Pos/The Post trio of Keina Swart (editor), Bea Emslie (manager) and Andries van der Heyde were named winners of the coveted Impact Story category of the awards.
The Beat editor, Johnny Masilela, was named winner of the Best Regular Columnist Award, for a regular series he writes for Die Pos/The Post titled “The Other Side of Town”.
The two Waterberg newspapers competed with the Caxton footprint of 158 titles nationwide.
Both The BEAT and Die Pos/The Post were on the shortlist for the category of best headline-writing.
It was the first time that the two newspapers entered the Caxton Excellence Awards.
Later in the year came the Forum for Community Journalists Awards, from which again both newspapers excelled.
Die Pos/The Post won both categories of Best Headline-Writing and Best Front Page.
The BEAT was on the shortlist for both categories.
— The BEAT
