etv reporter wins DABRA award
Mr Thomas Naadi Bitegma of etv Ghana won the coveted Diageo Best Agribusiness/Environmental award for his documentary “The E-Waste Menace in Ghana.”
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Guinness Ghana Breweries Limited, an alcoholic beverage company and a subsidiary of Diageo, the world’s leading premium drinks business, announced the winners for the 2013 Diageo Africa Business Reporting Awards (DABRA) held in London on Wednesday, July 17, 2013.
DABRA, which is celebrating its 10th anniversary this year, showcased the journalists and media outlets that had delivered excellent business journalism from and about Africa. Winners from the 10 categories came mainly from the UK and West Africa.
Paul Walsh, Adviser to the Chairman and Chief Executive of Diageo plc, and chair of the judging panel, said, "In the first year of the awards, I recall we had just 35 entries, predominantly from UK-based media organisations.
Ten years later, we regularly receive over 1,000 entries from right across the world, including a significant proportion from within Africa.
This, I believe, clearly demonstrates that the interest in Africa and its opportunities are becoming more and more mainstream.
In the last decade we have seen great improvements in reporting on Africa and this has delivered clear benefits to business and the region, and I hope to see this continue well into the future.”
The keynote address was delivered by Lynne Featherstone, UK International Development Minister, who said: “The media has played an absolutely integral role in changing Africa’s image for the better, helping to turn the continent into one of the world’s most promising investment destinations.
As economies across Africa continue to boom, there needs to be a common focus among governments, civil society and the press to ensure the very poorest share in the proceeds of this growth.”