Reply To:
Name - Reply Comment
Daily Mirror Sports Editor Channaka de Silva set a record by bagging sports journalist of the year for the fifth time at the Journalism Awards for Excellence 2012 held at the Mount Lavinia hotel this evening
He also won the award for the scoop of the year. Daily Mirror Journalist Lakna Paranamanna won the young journalist of the year while Daily Mirror Cartoonist Awantha Artigala bagged the cartoonist of the year award for the second time.
Winners -2012
Mervyn De Silva Journalist of the year | Dilrukshi Handunnetti - The Ceylon Today |
Best Cartoonist | Awantha Artigala - Daily Mirror |
Photojournalist of the Year | Gemunu H. Wellage |
Bussines Journalist of the Year | Abdul Razak Mohammed -The Nation |
Upali Wijewardene Feature Writer of the Year | Smriti Daniel -The Sunday Times |
Sports Journalist of the Year Award and Scoop of the Year | Channaka de Silva - Daily Mirror Sprots |
Denzil Perera Young Reporter of the Year | Lakna Paranamanna -Daily Mirror |
Best Designed Newspaper of the Year | The Sunday Times |
Award for reporting under special circumstances | Jeewaka Jayaruk - Lankadeepa (winner) |
Joint merit award - Dilrukshi Handunnetti and Dushiyanthini Kanagasaba | |
Investigative journalist of the year | Harsha Mangala Sugathadasa - Irida Lakbima |
Best Environmental Journalist | Supun Lahiru - Lakbima and Nirmala Kannangara of the Sunday Leader |