Star Media Group bags two golds at 2024 MPI-PETRONAS journalism awards

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The Star Media Group (SMG) bagged two gold awards through its content design team and senior writer Ragananthini Vethasalam at the Malaysian Press Institute (MPI)-PETRONAS Malaysian Journalism Awards 2024 on Friday (June 20) night.  Read more at https://tinyurl.com/fw7fj63u  WATCH MORE: https://thestartv.com/c/news SUBSCRIBE: https://cutt.ly/TheStar LIKE: https://fb.com/TheStarOnline

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00:00The Star Media Group bagged two gold awards at the Malaysian Press Institute MPI Petronas,

00:07Malaysian Journalism Awards 2024 on Friday night.

00:12Executive Editor of Content Design Tung Eng Hwa,

00:15Chief Designer Mohamed Hafiz Aminuddin,

00:18and Deputy Chief Designer Hassan Bahri

00:19took home the gold prize in the Best Infographic category.

00:24Senior writer Raganantini Vetasalam

00:26clinched the first place in the Best News Reporting category

00:29for her impactful series of reports about the healthcare sector.

00:33The Star team also secured both second and third place in the Best Multimedia category,

00:38receiving RM3,000 and RM2,000 in cash prizes, respectively, along with trophies.

00:45The Star Metro journalist Mohamed Farid Abdul Wahab

00:48came in third in the Best Feature Writing category.

00:51The Star Video team also came third in the Best Environmental,

00:55Social and Governance Journalism category

00:57for its compelling series of videos.

01:00Higher Education Minister Datuk Seri Dr. Zambri Abdul Qadir,

01:04who was the guest of honour at the event,

01:06said media practitioners must return to the basics of truth

01:09in the challenging digital era.

01:10Ternyata yang kita raihkan bukan hanya pencapaian cumberlang kewartawanan,

01:19namun memercit, nyala rasa semangat baharu dalam dunia persuratan dan media tanah.

01:27Dalam zaman pasca normal age dan era pasca kebenaran,

01:35berita palsu mudah tersebar, teori konspirasi pula menjarak di ranah yang subuh

01:41dan kepercayaan pabrik terhadap media tercapa.

01:45A special award was also conferred upon the late Rozaid Abdul Rahman,

02:08who previously served as the group consulting editor at the Star.

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