Eight members of the Daily Mirror editorial staff won awards at the Journalism Awards for Excellence 2014 held at the Mount Lavinia hotel this evening.

Standing from left to right – Daily Mirror’s Kushan Pathiraja – Photojournalist of the year(merit award), Channaka de Silva – Sports Journalist of the year (merit award); Shihara Maduwage – Upali Wijewardene features writer of the year (merit award- English), Kamanthi Wickremesinghe – Denzil Peris young reporter of the year; Awantha Artigala – Cartoonist of the year; Alagan Kanagaraj – Upali Wijewardene feature writer of the year (Tamil), Namal Amerasinghe Cartoonist of the year (merit award-Tamil) and Gihan de Chikera Cartoonist of the year (merit awards) . Pic by Waruna Wanniarachchi