Countries Open For Nigeria Breweries 7th Golden Pen Awards

Nigerian Breweries Plc has opened entries for its 7th edition of its Golden Pen Awards.

In an announcement made at a press briefing, the company’s Corporate Affairs Adviser, Kufre Ekanem said this year’s award would retain the same mechanisms used last year where journalists and media houses are expected to send in entries basedon selected themes to encourage media focus on critical sectors of the Nigerian economy.

The 7th Golden Pen Awards is focused one Education, Youth Empowerment and Talent Development, and set to promote professionalism and objective reportage of events in corporate Nigeria, while rewarding journalists who abide by the fine ethics of theprofession.Categories of the awards and the prizes to be won to include:

The Nigerian Breweries Golden Pen Reporter of the Year (Special statuette + N1, 000, 000.00); first runner up for the Nigerian Breweries Golden Pen Reporter of the Year (Special statuette + N300, 000.00) and second runner up for the Nigerian Breweries Golden Pen Reporter of the Year (Special statuette + N200, 000.00).

Others are: The Golden Pen Nigerian Breweries Report of the Year (Special statuette + N500, 000.00); The Nigerian Breweries Golden Pen Photojournalist of the Year (Special statuette + N300, 000.00); first runner up for the Nigerian Breweries Photojournalist of the Year (Special statuette+ N250, 000.00) and second runner up for the Nigerian Breweries Photojournalist of theYear (Special statuette + N200, 000.00).

Winners will be announced and awarded their prizes at the 7th Nigerian Breweries Golden Pen Award ceremony in October 2015.

The jury, which will be headed by Yemi Ogunbiyi will analyse the reports and photographs for their Originality, News Value, Use of Resources, Credibility and factuality.

Other areas of interest would include Info-graphics, Lay out/Headline, Clarity and Social impact.

To participate, journalists and their media houses can send in reports covering ‘Education, Youth Empowerment and Talent Development‘, published between January 1 and December 31 2014. All entries are to be sent to the independent coordinating agency,Mediacraft Associates via goldenpen2015@mediacraft.ngor at its corporate office, at 7 Okunola Aina Street, Mende, Maryland, Lagos.Submission of entries close on Friday, September 21, 2015.The Nigerian Breweries Golden Pen Award was inaugurated in 2008 to celebrate the partnership between Nigerian Breweries and the Nigerian media.