MaltaMedia clean sweep at Journalism awards

MaltaMedia dominated the ejournalism category at yesterday's Malta Journalism awards. Congratulations to Pierre who won thanks to his sterling work with the MaltaMedia news team last year. The inclusion of Wired Temples with the award finalists comes as a welcome recognition of the phenomenon of blogging by the Maltese media establishment:

For the second time in three years MaltaMedia News has won the e-journalism category of the 15th Malta Journalism Awards. Pierre Mejlak was first in the category as announced in the final ceremony held on Monday night. The MaltaMedia News team was second and Robert Micallef, with his blog on MaltaMedia, was third.

Pierre Mejlak won with his interviews with the President of the European Commission Romano Prodi; an interview with Jens-Peter Bonde, MEP and chairman of the euro-critic Group for a Europe of Democracies and Diversities; and other reports during a two-week stage in Brussels. During the ceremony journalist Julian Manduca, photographer Alfred Giglio and sports commentator Julian Zammit who passed away this year were remembered..

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