Thirteen media organisations will share honours this year at the 2020 edition of the Diamond Awards for Media Excellence. Billed for Saturday, December 12 in Lagos, the event is the 29th since DAME birthed in 1992.
Established to encourage media professionalism by rewarding talent and enterprise, the annual exercise has been acknowledged as living up to this promise. Aside from honouring individuals and organisations with career-boosting recognitions, the awards provide media scholars and professionals, policy formulators, and regulators with the welcome annual feedback on the state of media practice.
In all 39 nominations have been made after two rounds of screening by the panel of judges drawn from practice and the academia. From the nominations both the Newspaper of the Year and the Editor of the Year will emerge.