Crowning of the winners of the Grand Prix National du Journalisme during its 22nd edition

This article was automatically translated from HIBAPRESS, the Arabic version:

This article was automatically translated from HIBAPRESS, the Arabic version:

Heba Press. Rabat

The jury of the 22nd session of the Grand Prix National du Journalisme announced, today Friday in Rabat, the names of the winners in the different categories of the prize, during a ceremony attended in particular by the Minister of Youth, of Culture and Communication, Mohamed Mehdi Bensaïd, and the Secretary of State for Social Inclusion, Abdeljabbar Errachidi, the President of the Constitutional Court, Mohamed Amin Benabdellah.

The National Media Personality Appreciation Award, given to a national media personality who has made outstanding contributions to the development of the national media scene and the consolidation of the noble principles of the profession, was jointly awarded to journalist Mustafa Al- Alawi and journalist Latifa Marwan.

The Appreciation Prize was also awarded to Moroccan journalists working in foreign media institutions, to the correspondent of the Al-Ghad Al-Arabi channel in Morocco, Fadwa Al-Murabti, and to the correspondent of the Al-Arabiya channel in Morocco, Adel Al-Zubairi.

The Television Prize was also awarded to journalists Jamaa Kalhassan of the Second Channel for his work “Leaving or Building” and Abdelhamid Gibran of the First Channel for his work “The Kingdom of Renewable Energies”.

As for the Radio Prize, it was awarded to journalist Amin Lamrani, from Radio Nationale, for his work “Children with autism… Silent suffering”.

The written journalism prize was won by journalist Hamza Al-Metiwi Amenzo of the newspaper Al-Sahifa, for his work “The Algerian petrodollar… The billions spent by Algeria to buy influence in Washington to divide Morocco” .

The prize for electronic journalism was awarded to journalist Monia Al-Senhaji of the site “Lematin.ma” for her work “Legalization of Cannabis: Three years later, the lights are green but watch out for delays”.

In the agency’s journalism category, the prize was awarded equally to two journalists from the Arab Maghreb Press, Iman Brouji, for her work “Breast cancer among young women… a fight for life in the flower of age”, and Meriem Raqiq, for her work “Feminine writing: great potential and low visibility”.

As for the Regional Journalism Prize, it was awarded equally to journalist Khadija Banaji from the newspaper “Sada Taounate”, for her work “Suicide in Taounate…Continuous Bleeding”, and to journalist Embarek Kazez from the site “Here is the desert” . for his work “The encroachment of sand invades the villages of Foum El Oued and threatens agricultural activity”.

The Amazigh Journalistic Production Prize was won by journalist Nadia Hasisou from the “Amazigh” channel for her work “Amghar Night Owera”.

As for the prize for journalistic production on Hassani Saharan culture and domain, it was awarded to journalist Hafez Mihdhar of the regional channel Laayoune, for his work “Laz el-Bel (camel race) in the Moroccan Sahara from local to the international”.

The investigative journalist prize was won by journalist Salma Al-Chat from the “Voix du Maroc” site, for her work “The Valley of Hell… an investigation into the heart of Moroccan detention and torture camps in Myanmar “.

Concerning the photo prize, it was awarded to photographer Mohamed Karaimi of the “HIBAPRESS” site for his work entitled “An Orthodox Jew finds a community in Morocco while supporting Palestine”.

In a speech delivered on this occasion, the president of the jury of the 22nd session of the prize, Aziz Bousta, highlighted that this session recorded a notable increase in the percentage of women participants, which reached 40 percent of the total nominations, per compared to the previous session in which the percentage did not exceed 30 percent, indicating that this participation The strength of women journalists includes the different genders and types of journalists covered by the award.

He added that the results of this year’s session were marked for the first time by an equal share between male and female journalists, considering that this is a clear indication of the successes achieved by female journalists. Moroccans and recognition of their great contribution to the enrichment of the journalistic and media field in Morocco.

Regarding the jury’s recommendations, Mr. Bousta called for the adoption of a double nomination system for journalistic works, which includes, in addition to the self-nomination of journalists or media institutions, direct nomination by the committee of organization or jury by selecting distinguished published journalistic articles. works not submitted Officially, the role of the jury is reinforced by its appointment at least six months before the award date.

Mr. Busta also called for reorganizing the journalistic categories, removing the investigative journalism category as an independent classification, and launching an award in the sports journalism category, given the great status that sport enjoys in the Kingdom, and by modifying the conditions of participation in the cartoon category by removing the obligation to have a professional press card. A period of three years is a basic requirement to participate in this category.