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MEENA-AWARD
45 get Meena Media Award
Dhaka, Oct 27, 2019 (BSS) – UNICEF Bangladesh honoured 45 media
professionals for their outstanding reporting on child issue at a city hotel
today.
The awards were designed to inspire better and objective reporting on
child rights and other issues relevant to the wellbeing of children across
the country.
The awardees have been selected from 76 nominees in 14 categories with the
number of total entries recorded at more than 1,000, surpassing last year’s
total entry of 850.
UNICEF Goodwill Ambassadors – magician Jewel Aich, actor Arifa Zaman
Moushumi, cricket superstar Shakib Al Hassan, UNICEF Bangladesh Child Rights
Advocate Band Group Warfaze Representative Sheikh Monirul Alam Tipu and Tomoo
Hozumi, representative of UNICEF Bangladesh were present at the function.
“Media plays a very critical role in development of any society. It
highlights progresses, but at the same time, points out remaining as well as
newly emerging challenges,” said Tomoo Hozumi, representative of UNICEF
Bangladesh.
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