Judging covers the Arab Journalism and Digital Media Award

Dubai Press: The preliminary screening of the works participating in the Arab Media Award has ended

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The Dubai Press Club, representative of the General Secretariat of the Arab Media Award, announced the end of the preliminary screening process for the advanced works of the award to compete in the two categories: “Arab Press Award” and “Digital Media Award”, at the beginning of the judging process, through which the winner of the 13 awards will be selected. The award is included in its first session, within its new developed framework, where the winners are expected to be announced during a large ceremony on the fourth of next October, coinciding with the activities of the Arab Media Forum, and in the presence of the leaders of the largest media and press organizations in the region, and the most prominent Arab writers, media professionals and intellectuals.

The director of the Dubai Press Club, Dr. Maitha Buhumaid, explained that the screening and arbitration processes are proceeding according to the set timetable, which comes after closing the door for receiving entries, while the sorting is carried out on the basis of the criteria approved for the three axes and the categories included in each of them, which are the criteria approved by the Board of Directors. The award is in light of the comprehensive development that has been introduced into its structure, which confirms Dubai’s leadership, keeping pace with the development in the media sector, and the desire to expand the scope of the award’s positive returns in stimulating new levels of quality in two important sectors, namely visual and digital media, in addition to the press sector. Over the past 20 years, the Arab Journalism Award has contributed to its development by encouraging fair professional competition with the aim of improving journalistic production throughout the Arab world.

Buhumaid expressed her thanks and appreciation to everyone who participated in the award categories, with the aim of reaching the honoring platform, and said: “We are pleased to receive participations from all over the Arab region, and from Arab media institutions operating outside the region, which expresses their keenness to be present in this media forum. , who continued with diligence and diligence, over two decades, to honor the distinguished in the field of journalism, while this confidence continues with the development and extension of the award, to also include the visual and digital media sectors, which constitutes a new incentive for us to continue the journey of development, in order to preserve the status and history of the award And confirming its position in its new framework as the most important forum for celebrating media excellence in the region.”

For his part, the Director of the Arab Media Award, Jassem Al-Shamsi, praised the great cooperation shown by the media professionals participating in voting on the best works and programs, within the visual media axis and its five categories, noting that the turnout of nearly 1,000 media professionals, writers and content makers to nominate works reflects the status that The award enjoys in the media circles, the appreciation that the media have of the award, and their keenness to get it out in the best possible way, according to the approved criteria, which take into account a set of basic rules for selection, foremost of which is integrity and impartiality. Al Shamsi also praised the wide turnout by the participating media institutions. In the Visual Media Award, which reflects the success of the Arab Media Award in reaching its new categories to creators from various media institutions in the Arab world.

He explained that the arbitration process goes through several stages, the beginning of which is the first sorting to exclude works that do not take into account the declared requirements and must be met in every work submitted for competition within the award, which reduces the number of works entering the stage of pre-final and final arbitration, where these works are “filtered” to choose the best from Among the thousands of advanced works, ensuring the highest levels of accuracy in selecting the winner.

The Board of Directors of the Arab Media Award had approved the new structure of the award, its statute, categories, and work mechanisms, within its first meeting held remotely, and with its new formation, headed by the President of the Syndicate of Journalists in Egypt Diaa Rashwan, and in the presence of the Secretary-General of the Arab Media Award Mona Ghanem Al-Marri, and the Director of the Arab Media Award. Dubai Press Club, Dr. Maitha Buhumaid, last July.

The “journalism” sector constitutes a major focus of the Arab Media Award, and within the framework of the “Arab Journalism Award” there are five categories: political journalism, economic journalism, investigative journalism, and children’s journalism, in addition to the best columnist category, while the visual media award includes five categories. These are: “Best Economic Program”, “Best Cultural Program”, “Best Sports Program”, “Best Social Program”, in addition to “Best Documentary Work”. The “Digital Media Award” includes three categories: Best News Platform, Best Economic Platform and Best Sports Platform.

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