NsNewsWire journalist wins honorable mention at WMS Global Awards for Excellence

DHAKA, Oct. 28 (NsNewsWire) — The WMS Global Awards for Excellence 2014 recognized Bangladeshi senior journalist Sheuli Akter with an honorable mention, the board of judges announced Monday in Beijing.

Sheuli Akter earned an honorable mention in the Exemplary News Professionals in Developing Countries category.

All NsNewsWire journalists were elated when they received the news that their Editor and Special Correspondent Sheuli Akter won Honorable Mention in the World Media Summit (WMS) Global Awards for Excellence 2014 in Beijing.

“I truly feel honored and grateful to have won the award. I feel greatly honored to be a recipient of this award and would like to thank WMS. I think it would surely pave the way for our agency also to grow further, but it also puts more responsibility on us,” Akter told Xinhua at her office in Bangladesh capital Dhaka.

“This award is a huge achievement for me and will help me to pursue the next step on my journey,” she said.

“I really appreciate the recognition of my achievements from WMS. I’m humbled and at the same time overcome with joy for being selected as a recipient of the award.”

“I would also like to take this opportunity to acknowledge the assistance of my family who has given me endless support and love in whatever I do.”

WMS Global Awards for Excellence 2014 announced winners and honorable mentions on Monday.

The awards’ board of judges was chaired by Li Congjun, WMS executive chairman, chairman of the judging committee and president of Xinhua News Agency.

The judges were drawn from WMS presidium member organizations, including the Associated Press, TASS, Kyodo News, Al Jazeera and Kasturi & Sons Limited.

Veteran newsmen from international media organizations, including Agence France-Presse, Polish Press Agency, Hearst Corporation and Paris Match, were also on the panel, notably David Schlesinger, former editor-in-chief of Reuters News, and Jack Gao, former senior vice president of News Corporation.

Sheuli Akter’s NsNewsWire was one of over 450 news organizations and more than 500 news practitioners from 138 countries and regions that have submitted 1,424 entries in total.

The nominating panels have recommended 36 finalists to the board of judges, including Sheuli Akter of NsNewsWire in Bangladesh, who later won honorable mention of Award for Exemplary News Professionals in Developing Countries.

Sainath Palagummi of The Hindu in India was announced the award winner of this category. Al Jazeera English was awarded the prize for news teams in developing countries.
The media innovation award went to Behind the Bloodshed, a USA Today investigative report, which examined FBI data as well as local police records and media reports to understand mass killings in America.
The award for new media was given to Myanmar Emerges, by GlobalPost of the U.S. The multimedia report described Myanmar’s emergence as one of the most important economic, political and cultural stories of 2013. GlobalPost spent much of the year reporting from inside the country, from the shopping malls and recording studios of Yangon, to the copper mines of Kyisintaung Mountain.
“This is a great attainment for NsNewsWire and for our journalist Sheuli Akter. We’re thankful to the organizers for letting our journalist participates in this international competition,” NK Sanchaya, chief editor at NsNewsWire, told Xinhua.
Sheuli Akter, daughter of Senior Financial Express Journalist Mahbubur Rashid, has more than a decade of experience working as journalist in Bangladesh. Prior to joining in NsNewsWire, she had worked in Bangladesh’s now-defunct leading newspaper The Bangladesh Observer and UNB, a top leading news agency. Enditem