Pacific student reporters honoured in USP journalism awards
Title -- 3843 FIJI: Pacific student reporters honoured in USP journalism awards
Date -- 18 November 2002
Byline -- None
Origin -- Pacific Media Watch
Source -- Wansolwara Online (USP), 17/11/02
Copyright -- USP Journalism
Status -- Unabridged
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PACIFIC STUDENT REPORTERS HONOURED IN USP JOURNALISM AWARDS
www.usp.ac.fj/journ/docs/news/wansolnews/2002/2002nov/wansol1711021.html
SUVA (Wansolwara Online/Pacific Media Watch): Third-year Fiji journalism student Joe Yaya won the Tanoa Award for the journalism student of the year at the annual University of the South Pacific journalism awards last night, Wansolwara Online reports.
Yaya also won the the Caines Jannif Best In-depth Reporting Story Prize for 2002 "for investigative research and reporting of a consistently high standard in covering the ACP summit, the USP student association finances and the mahogany industry".
The event was held at the university's lower campus with 16 awards and certificates presented to students.
Former and current students, industry representatives, working journalists, editors, university academic staff and friends and families of the student journalists attended to awards, the fourth since they began in 1999.
Fiji Sun publisher Michael Richards was chief guest and delivered the keynote address.
The Radio Australia Prize and Storyboard Award for Outstanding Regional Journalism was awarded to the USP Reporting Team for "professionalism and teamwork" in coverage of an important regional event during September.
Normally this prize goes to a graduating individual from the region but this year it was presented to a team of 11 first-year students covering the UNICEF Pacific Regional Youth Congress on HIV for Wansolwara Online.
The Storyboard Award, a carving from Papua New Guinea, was donated by former USP journalism coordinator David Robie and his wife Del in 1999 and presented to Maire Bopp, of Tahiti, in the first USP journalism awards.
Robie, now a senior journalism lecturer at Auckland University of Technology, started the USP journalism awards. The Storyboard Award is on permanent display in the USP Journalism Newsroom.
Other winners were:
Vicky Lepou (Samoa) won the School of Humanities Best Editor or News Director in any Medium award. She was recognised for her "editorial leadership as news director for Radio Pasifik and editor of Wansolwara".
Tamarisi Digitaki (Fiji) won the PIBA Best Student Radio Journalism Prize "for exemplary leadership while news director and reporter for Radio Pasifik’s daily news and current affairs service in semester one".
She is a former journalist at The Review news magazine.
Talei Tora (Fiji) won the Fiji Television Ltd Best Student Television Journalism Prize for "outstanding news coverage across all reporting fields while on attachment with Fiji TV in semester two".
Evan Wasuka (Solomon Islands) won the French Embassy Journalism Prize, which this year is a six-week regional media attachment with Pacific Weekly Review in Port Vila, Vanuatu, from December 2002 to January 2003. Wasuka will be based at this new regional newspaper as a reporter.
Ashwini Prabha (Fiji) won the All-Media Achievement Award. This is a new award sponsored by The Sun recognising a student's outstanding contribution across more than one medium.
Prabha "excelled" in print, online and television.
Naziah Ali (Fiji) won The Fiji Times-sponsored prize for Most Promising First Year Journalism Student for 2002 for best "overall performance in both journalism coursework and newsroom assignments".
Full awards and certificates list at:
http://www.usp.ac.fj/journ/docs/news/wansolnews/2002/2002nov/wansol1711021.html
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