Reporter bags ‘best journalist’ award
Chief Photographer of also feted at Chiranthana media award ceremony
AGulf News journalist has won recognition in an annual media award instituted by an Indian cultural organisation in the UAE.
Binsal Abdul Kader, Senior Reporter in the Gulf News Abu Dhabi bureau, received the V.M. Satish Media Award for the best Indian journalist in English media in the Gulf region.
Chiranthana Cultural Forum in association with the UAE Exchange has been giving away the awards for the past 18 years and the award named after V.M. Satish was added this year as a tribute to the veteran journalist who passed away last year.
Abdul Kader received the award from prominent Indian journalist Thomas Jacob and Y. Sudhir Kumar Shetty, president of the UAE Exchange, at a ceremony in Sharjah on Thursday evening.
M.K. Abdul Rahman, Chief ■ Photographer with Gulf News, was also honoured along with Unnikrishnan Puravankara, chairman of 4pm News and Daily Tribune in Bahrain, and Mushtaq Ahmad, a veteran photographer retired from Dubai Police.
Jasitha Sanjith of Asianet Radio won the Rajeev Cherai memorial award for the best radio journalist.
P.P. Saseendran, head of Mathrubhumi news outlets in the Gulf; Shinoj Shamsuddin, chief broadcast journalist with Media One television; Nissar Syed, chief editor of Asia Vision news portals; Kamal Kassim, photographer with Gulf Today; and Alex Thomas, videographer with NTV; were also bestowed with excellence awards.