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Zimbabwe: Journalist Scoops Top CNN Award
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The Herald (Harare)
23 July 2008
Posted to the web 23 July 2008
Harare
A ZIMBABWEAN journalist Hopewell Rugoho-Chin'ono has been awarded the top prize at this year's CNN MultiChoice African Journalist 2008 awards ceremony.
Hopewell, founder and film director for Television International Zimbabwe, won the award for his story "Pain in My Heart", which was chosen from among 1912 entries from a record 44 nations across Africa.
He was among finalists at the Awards ceremony on Saturday evening and was also the category winner in The Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation Award for Excellence in HIV and Aids Reporting in Africa.
President of Ghana John Kufuor, presented him with the Award at a gala hosted by CNN and MultiChoice at the State Banquet Hall, Osu, Accra, Ghana last Saturday.
Tony Maddox, managing director, CNN International and Eben Greyling, Chief Executive Officer, MultiChoice Africa, were also on stage.
The 2008 Awards, which rotate location each year in tribute to their pan-African credentials, mark a welcome return to Ghana, West Africa, home to many of the competition's winners over the years, and birthplace of the Awards, first held in Accra in 1995.
Hopewell said: "The recognition this award gives me goes a long way to improving journalistic standards for many colleagues who are working under very difficult conditions.
"It is a huge honour and commitment and I will do my best to meet the expectations of my peers.
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"I dedicate the award to all those struggling to be recognised, and I salute the ongoing challenge to achieve excellence across the African continent."
lets be honest here... no one from the Herald was ever going to get this award.
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