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<TABLE cellSpacing=0 cellPadding=1 width="100%" border=0><TBODY><TR><TD><SPAN class=TopStory>Portia's doodle wins top photo award</SPAN>
<SPAN class=Subheadline></SPAN></TD></TR><TR><TD>BY KERRY MCCATTY Sunday Observer staff reporter
Sunday, December 10, 2006
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<P class=StoryText align=justify>Observer senior photo editor Michael Gordon won the Ashton Rhoden Award for News Photography for his picture 'Portia Doodling', at the 63rd Press Association of Jamaica awards ceremony at the Jamaica Pegasus Hotel in Kingston Friday night.<P class=StoryText align=justify>The photograph captured Prime Minister Portia Simpson Miller doodling during the debate of a no-confidence motion brought against her Government in Parliament earlier this year.<TABLE cellSpacing=0 cellPadding=5 width=330 align=center border=0><TBODY><TR><TD>
</TD></TR><TR><TD><SPAN class=Description>Observer senior photo editor Michael Gordon and Prime Minister Portia Simpson Miller hug after Gordon collected the Ashton Rhoden Award for News Photography for his picture 'Portia Doodling' at the Press Association of Jamaica awards ceremony Friday night at the Jamaica Pegasus Hotel in Kingston. The photograph, which showed the prime minister doodling in Parliament during a no-confidence motion brought against the Government by the Opposition, was severely criticised by Simpson Miller's supporters and government technocrats. </SPAN></TD></TR></TBODY></TABLE><P class=StoryText align=justify>Subsequent to the publication of the photograph on the front page of the Daily Observer on October 16, reporters were banned from the Hansard gallery of Parliament, which prompted discussions of infringement of press freedom.<P class=StoryText align=justify>The photograph also angered Simpson Miller, her supporters and senior Government technocrats who severely criticised the Observer for its publication.<P class=StoryText align=justify>Friday night, Dorraine Samuels, who read the citations said the winning photograph "should command a second and a third look".
Another Observer photographer, Karl McLarty, won the Junior Dowie Award for Sports Photography, for his entry 'Ball Grip'.
Radio Jamaica's Dionne Jackson-Miller was named Journalist of
the Year.<P class=StoryText align=justify>The Beyond the Headlines radio show and All Angles television show host walked away with the top prize ahead of RJR's Rohan Powell, the Observer's Karyl Walker and the Sunday Herald's Durant Pate.
"It's always nice to know that people appreciate what you're doing, especially when it comes from within the fraternity," Jackson-Miller said.
Jackson-Miller added that the feeling within herself of a job well done after every interview, was sufficient reward.<P class=StoryText align=justify>A total of 13 awards were presented Friday night from what chief judge Ben Brodie reported to be the most entries ever received in a single year.<P class=StoryText align=justify>Brodie said there was "marked improvement in the quality of the entries", but complained that the judges had to sift through piles of paper-based entries. He said submitting and reviewing entries could be made much easier if they were uploaded to the Internet.
"The Press Association needs a website," Brodie said. "Get with it, don't lag."<P class=StoryText align=justify>Other winners included Television Jamaica's Kirk Wright for his piece 'Victoria Jubilee in Crisis', which won the Hector Bernard/Theodore Sealy Award of News, and the Gleaner team of Daraine Luton, Keisha Hill and Glenroy Sinclair, who took the President's Award for Investigative Journalism, for their series of stories, 'Church Under Fire'.
<SPAN class=Subheadline></SPAN></TD></TR><TR><TD>BY KERRY MCCATTY Sunday Observer staff reporter
Sunday, December 10, 2006
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<P class=StoryText align=justify>Observer senior photo editor Michael Gordon won the Ashton Rhoden Award for News Photography for his picture 'Portia Doodling', at the 63rd Press Association of Jamaica awards ceremony at the Jamaica Pegasus Hotel in Kingston Friday night.<P class=StoryText align=justify>The photograph captured Prime Minister Portia Simpson Miller doodling during the debate of a no-confidence motion brought against her Government in Parliament earlier this year.<TABLE cellSpacing=0 cellPadding=5 width=330 align=center border=0><TBODY><TR><TD>
</TD></TR><TR><TD><SPAN class=Description>Observer senior photo editor Michael Gordon and Prime Minister Portia Simpson Miller hug after Gordon collected the Ashton Rhoden Award for News Photography for his picture 'Portia Doodling' at the Press Association of Jamaica awards ceremony Friday night at the Jamaica Pegasus Hotel in Kingston. The photograph, which showed the prime minister doodling in Parliament during a no-confidence motion brought against the Government by the Opposition, was severely criticised by Simpson Miller's supporters and government technocrats. </SPAN></TD></TR></TBODY></TABLE><P class=StoryText align=justify>Subsequent to the publication of the photograph on the front page of the Daily Observer on October 16, reporters were banned from the Hansard gallery of Parliament, which prompted discussions of infringement of press freedom.<P class=StoryText align=justify>The photograph also angered Simpson Miller, her supporters and senior Government technocrats who severely criticised the Observer for its publication.<P class=StoryText align=justify>Friday night, Dorraine Samuels, who read the citations said the winning photograph "should command a second and a third look".Another Observer photographer, Karl McLarty, won the Junior Dowie Award for Sports Photography, for his entry 'Ball Grip'.
Radio Jamaica's Dionne Jackson-Miller was named Journalist of
the Year.<P class=StoryText align=justify>The Beyond the Headlines radio show and All Angles television show host walked away with the top prize ahead of RJR's Rohan Powell, the Observer's Karyl Walker and the Sunday Herald's Durant Pate.
"It's always nice to know that people appreciate what you're doing, especially when it comes from within the fraternity," Jackson-Miller said.
Jackson-Miller added that the feeling within herself of a job well done after every interview, was sufficient reward.<P class=StoryText align=justify>A total of 13 awards were presented Friday night from what chief judge Ben Brodie reported to be the most entries ever received in a single year.<P class=StoryText align=justify>Brodie said there was "marked improvement in the quality of the entries", but complained that the judges had to sift through piles of paper-based entries. He said submitting and reviewing entries could be made much easier if they were uploaded to the Internet.
"The Press Association needs a website," Brodie said. "Get with it, don't lag."<P class=StoryText align=justify>Other winners included Television Jamaica's Kirk Wright for his piece 'Victoria Jubilee in Crisis', which won the Hector Bernard/Theodore Sealy Award of News, and the Gleaner team of Daraine Luton, Keisha Hill and Glenroy Sinclair, who took the President's Award for Investigative Journalism, for their series of stories, 'Church Under Fire'.
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