Daijiworld Media Network - Mangaluru (MS)
Mangaluru, Nov 28: In a meeting, chaired by Siddarraju, president of Karnataka Media Academy, several prominent performers of media field have been elected for the 'Media Academy Awards of 2017'.
The awardees will get a plaque and Rs 20000 in cash each. In total 40 journalists have been selected for this year's honour.
Bala Jagannath Shetty, senior journalist of Dakshina Kannada district and also president of Dakshina Kannada working journalists' union and Dr U P Shivanand, who has done considerable achievement in rural journalism through his newspaper 'Suddi Bidugade' have been chosen for this coveted award this year.
Details of awardees:
Bala Jagannath Shetty (Jayakirana), Dr U P Shivanand (Suddi Bidugade), Ramesh Kuttappa (Vijayavani), Basavanna (photographer), Shivanna (Vijayavani), Govind (Andolana), Vasanthkumar (Doordarshana), D S Shivarudrappa (senior journalist), Malappa Adasare (Antharanga Suddi), D Shivalingappa (Karnataka Sandhyakala), Chennabasavanna (ETV Kannada), Shivappa Madivala (Raichurvani), Dattu Sarkil (Janakoogu), Sadiq Ali (Lokadarshana), C Manjunath (Eshanya Times), Sangamesha Churi (Vijaya Karnatala), Mahesha Angadi (Sanje Darshana), Ramu Vaggi (videographer), Vijaya Kumar Patil (The Hindu), Balakrishna Ramachandra Vibhute (Indian Express), Ugama Srinivas (Kannadaprabha), Ganapathi Gangolli (Sanje Darpana), Shivakumar Kanasogi (Prajavani), Basavaraj Doddimani (TV9), Ravi Bidanoor (Samaya News), S Manjunath (Suddi Giduga), H N Mallesha (Udaya TV), Mohammad Yunus (E Munjane), K N Manjunath (Priya Patrike), K R Manjunath (senior journalist), Jayakumar (Jayamithra), Y S L Swamy (Sanjevani), Bageshree (The Hindu), Somayaji (Economic time), M C Shobha (Suvarna TV), B N Sridhar (Prajavani), Stalin Pinto (photographer), Adinarayana (Enadu), Mumtaz Aleem (Suddi TV), T Ashwatharamaiah (Valmiki Rights of India).