For this year's Newspaper Association Awards, which is given to excellent media coverage, NHK Special, which used its own method to investigate and report on the situation in Myanmar, where the military continues to crack down on citizens, was selected.
NHK announced the NHK special "Digital Resistance of Myanmar Citizens" broadcasted in April and the NHK special "Approaching the Darkness of the Suppression of the Confusion Myanmar Army" broadcasted in August. We developed our own research reports on the actual situation and the structure of interests that support the rule of the military.
In addition, we have set up a special website on the Internet and released information and videos received from Myanmar citizens to convey the local situation from various angles.
According to the Japan Newspaper Publishers and Editors, "It is highly regarded as an excellent investigative journal that conveys the turmoil in Myanmar by making full use of new coverage methods in the digital age and evading military information control."
The Newspaper Association Award, In addition,
▽ LINE personal information management reports of the Asahi Shimbun reported problems
▽ Governor of Aichi Prefecture recall signature forgery case the reportedly Chunichi Shimbun and the coverage of Nishinippon Shimbun
▽ in the spread of infection , elderly facilities in the photo coverage of the Mainichi Shimbun, which captured the figure hugging daughter wearing protective clothing and mother
▽ the Great East Japan Earthquake from the combined Kahokushinposha of long-term series in 10 years investigative journalism
▽ poaching and the black market of glass eel The report of Kochi Shimbun, which reported the actual situation of, was
selected.
The NHK Special, which won the Newspaper Association Award, will be rebroadcast on General TV from 1:32 am and 2:26 am on the 9th of this month.