Examiner video nominated for Local Ireland Media Awards
The short-list of nominees for the ninth Local Ireland Media Awards have been announced, and included on it is the Westmeath Examiner junior reporter Shane King for one of his videos.
This year’s awards will be sponsored for the seventh consecutive year by the National Lottery.
President of Local Ireland and head of Irish Times Regionals Dan Linehan said: “We have had nearly 600 entries for the awards, which underlines the quality and excellence of our local newspapers and their digital and online platforms.
“I want to thank the National Lottery for their sponsorship of the awards and their commitment to supporting local journalism, which is at the heart of communities across Ireland.”
National Lottery CEO Cian Murphy said that they are proud of their continued association with the Local Ireland Media Awards, as they recognise the top-class journalists and media professionals who tirelessly serve our local communities.
“We are also excited to host the Best Community Journalist category, a category that aligns with our own core values of generosity in community spirit and recognises the impact of communities working together to make a real and tangible difference.”
The judges for the awards include author and broadcaster Alison O’Connor, who is chairing the panel, broadcaster and journalist Dearbhail McDonald, Emeritus Professor at TUD Michael Foley, Dawn Wheatley of DCU School of Communications, managing director of Kinetic Ireland Andrew Sinclair, photographer and former Irish Times picture editor Frank Miller, broadcaster and writer Valerie Cox, journalist and author PJ Cunningham, novelist and newspaper columnist Dr Martina Devlin, policy editor of the Business Post Daniel Murray and deputy night editor of the Irish Sun Gerry McCarthy.
The award winners will be announced at an event at the Mullingar Park Hotel on Thursday September 19. The evening will be hosted by RTÉ and Eurovision presenter Marty Whelan.
Shane King from Ballinagore, who worked in the Westmeath Examiner newsroom last summer and this summer, has been shortlisted in the ‘Best Use Of Digital’ category for his video ‘Bloom’, which he made for the Examiner last year.
Also shortlisted in that category are Gavan Becton, Meath Chronicle, for ‘Bettystown Flooding – The Forgotten Village’; Darren Hassett, Tipperary.live.ie, for ‘Turning Tipperarylive.ie Into A Community News Page’; and Dylan Mangan, Southern Star, for ‘In The News Podcast’.