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Two Observer reporters - Ingrid Brown and Taneisha Lewis - are among a batch of Caribbean media professionals who will today be honoured for excellence in health journalism at the 15th Annual Caribbean Media Awards ceremony put on by the Pan American Health Organisation (PAHO). The presentation ceremony for local awardees takes place at the Jamaica Pegasus Hotel in Kingston.
Brown, who worked with the Jamaica Herald, Gleaner and the Jamaica Information Service (JIS), before moving to the Observer in April 2006, will receive first-place trophies in the print categories of Best News Story ("A drug that can reverse stroke"); the PANCAP awards for coverage of HIV/AIDS ("Ethel Pengel will not be scorned"), and the UNICEF award for child abuse story ("Rapist behind bars and so too his victim"). Lewis, who has been a reporter at the Observer since July 2003, placed first in the Best Feature Article category for her piece "Popularity of test tube babies growing".
"I am very grateful and it's a great honour," Lewis said yesterday.
Brown was equally happy for the recognition.
"I'm overwhelmed and I thank God for giving me the ability to achieve and I look forward to doing more stories that will inform and educate the public," Brown, now a senior reporter, said.
The entries, which are today being honoured at the national level, will be entered into a regional pool for adjudication, along with entries from Belize, Guyana, Haiti, Suriname, Trinidad and Tobago, Barbados and the Bahamas. A cash prize ranging between US$1,000 and US$1,500 and a plaque will be presented to the regional winners at an awards ceremony to be held in Barbados.
Now in its 15th year, the PAHO/Caribbean Media Awards recognises the work of regional health journalists who strive to provide readers with sound and life-changing information.
The objectives of the annual awards are to encourage the promotion of the link between health and development, to increase awareness of health and other development issues and to influence the adoption of healthy lifestyles in the Caribbean through the media.
Brown, who worked with the Jamaica Herald, Gleaner and the Jamaica Information Service (JIS), before moving to the Observer in April 2006, will receive first-place trophies in the print categories of Best News Story ("A drug that can reverse stroke"); the PANCAP awards for coverage of HIV/AIDS ("Ethel Pengel will not be scorned"), and the UNICEF award for child abuse story ("Rapist behind bars and so too his victim"). Lewis, who has been a reporter at the Observer since July 2003, placed first in the Best Feature Article category for her piece "Popularity of test tube babies growing".
"I am very grateful and it's a great honour," Lewis said yesterday.
Brown was equally happy for the recognition.
"I'm overwhelmed and I thank God for giving me the ability to achieve and I look forward to doing more stories that will inform and educate the public," Brown, now a senior reporter, said.
The entries, which are today being honoured at the national level, will be entered into a regional pool for adjudication, along with entries from Belize, Guyana, Haiti, Suriname, Trinidad and Tobago, Barbados and the Bahamas. A cash prize ranging between US$1,000 and US$1,500 and a plaque will be presented to the regional winners at an awards ceremony to be held in Barbados.
Now in its 15th year, the PAHO/Caribbean Media Awards recognises the work of regional health journalists who strive to provide readers with sound and life-changing information.
The objectives of the annual awards are to encourage the promotion of the link between health and development, to increase awareness of health and other development issues and to influence the adoption of healthy lifestyles in the Caribbean through the media.
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