São Paulo – The Brazil-Arab News Agency (ANBA) is the winner of the internet category of the 2011 ABCR Journalism Prize, awarded by the Brazilian Association of Highway Concessionaires (ABCR). The news report “Ready to resurface,” by journalist Isaura Daniel, was picked out as the best among all online vehicles in this year’s edition, which had 96 entries.
The report, published in June this year, discusses opportunities to investors, especially foreign ones, in highway concessions in Brazil. The ABCR prize selects the best reports published on the Brazilian press about highway infrastructure in the country. Prizes are granted to four categories, in addition to a main special prize.
“This is a recognition of all the work done by ANBA over the last eight years. It rewards the dedication of journalism based on seriousness, truth, and justice,” says Michel Alaby, CEO of the Arab Brazilian Chamber of Commerce, to which the agency belongs. “It attests to the appropriateness of ANBA’s editorial guidelines: quality journalism, showcasing Brazil and its reality to the Arabs, and showing the Arabs and their economy to Brazilians,” says Joel Santos Guimarães, ANBA’s editor-in-chief and the director of Agência Meios, which designed ANBA’s editorial project and coordinates the agency.
The ABCR Journalism Prize is the 11th prize ANBA has won. The latest one was granted by the Brazilian Ministry of Agriculture, Livestock and Supply last year, and the first one was awarded by the National Confederation of Transport (CNT) in 2004, a year after the agency was established. ANBA was created by the Arab Brazilian Chamber with the purpose of facilitating communication between Brazilians and Arabs, showcasing existing opportunities, and portraying the economic and cultural realities of both regions.
The ANBA website is available in English and Portuguese versions, and receives approximately 1 million page views per month. The agency maintains content reproduction agreements with seven news agencies in the Arab countries: Agence Tunis Afrique Presse, Algérie Presse Service, Emirates News Agency, Kuwait News Agency, Maghreb Arabe Presse, Syrian Arab News Agency, and Yemen News Agency.
Winners
The 2011 ABCR Journalism Prize will be delivered on October 24 in a ceremony during the Brazilian Congress on Highways and Concessions (CBR&C) in Foz do Iguaçu, in the state of Paraná. The special prize was won by journalist Fabio Buchmann, of radio station CBN in Curitiba, Paraná, for his report “Resgate da Fauna” (the Rescuing of the Fauna).
The Television Journalism category prize will go to Jaderson Pires, Fabiani Assunção, Monica Carvalho, Eriberto Pereira, Pedro Guimarães, and Ivanildo Araújo, the team of news programme TV Jornal, of the SBT channel in the state of Pernambuco. In the Printed category, the winner is the journalist Roberta Soares, of Jornal do Commercio, in the state of Recife, and the Radio Journalism prize will go to Elói Oliveira, of radio station BandNews FM in Belo Horizonte, in the state of Minas Gerais.
*Translated by Gabriel Pomerancblum
