Malaysiakini bags three silver prizes at MPI media awards
Malaysiakini has won second place in three different categories at the MPI-Petronas Malaysian Journalism Awards 2021 announced today.
For the ‘Excellence in Investigative Reporting’ category, the news portal was awarded for its series of three reports on the Lynas permanent disposal facility and the project’s link to the Pahang palace.
The reports were titled “Company linked to royalty in Lynas' waste disposal site project”, “Lynas EIA seeks to exorcise 40-year-old Bukit Merah spectre”, and “Pahang regent back as top shareholder in firm building Lynas PDF”.
The top award for the category went to...
Malaysiakini has won second place in three different categories at the MPI-Petronas Malaysian Journalism Awards 2021 announced today.
For the ‘Excellence in Investigative Reporting’ category, the news portal was awarded for its series of three reports on the Lynas permanent disposal facility and the project’s link to the Pahang palace.
The reports were titled “Company linked to royalty in Lynas' waste disposal site project”, “Lynas EIA seeks to exorcise 40-year-old Bukit Merah spectre”, and “Pahang regent back as top shareholder in firm building Lynas PDF”.
The top award for the category went to Daily Express for its series revisiting the 1976 plane crash that killed half of the Sabah cabinet at the time, and the fallout from the disaster.
Meanwhile, Malaysiakini won second place in the ‘Petronas Excellence in Environmental Reporting’ category for its three-part series on Malaysia’s reliance on cheap but dirty coal-fired power plants.
The reports are “Shedding Coal: The Good, The Bad, The Ugly of Malaysia’s Coal Power Industry”, “Power and money: Is Malaysia still banking on coal?”, and “Power play: Who’s who in Malaysia’s coal energy business”.
A webinar was also held on Oct 28 last year to discuss the future of Malaysia’s energy mix.
The reporting project was conducted under the news portal’s Kini News Lab initiative in collaboration with Indonesia’s Tempo magazine, the Centre for Media and Development Initiatives, Tansa, The Australian Financial Review, and Korea Center for Investigative Journalism (KCIJ)-Newstapa. It was supported by the Judith Neilson Institute’s Asian Stories project.
The category’s top award went to Macaranga for its reporting on deforestation.
In the “Excellence in Multimedia Journalism” category, Malaysiakini won second place for three different reports: One on the victims of custodial deaths, one exposing hundreds of poorly secured government websites, and one on how the information war over the 2019-2020 anti-extradition protests in Hong Kong has spread to Malaysia.
The top prize for the category went to The Star for its interactive features on the Covid-19 pandemic’s toll on mental health, on high-profile cases of missing or murdered children, and on parents raising children with autism.
Malaysiakini is awarded RM1,500 and a certificate for each category.
Elsewhere Malaysiakini associate editor Martin Vengadesan, was shortlisted for the Best Columnist/Editor's Features Category for his column pieces titled Vaccine queue-jumping? Watch this space, Families of murdered boys have gotten payment, but still denied justice and Deeply disgusted by dictator's daughter's drivel.
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