Sabah TV3 Team Wins Award

The Sabah TV3 team comprising broadcast journalist Elphege P Godomon and cameraman Mohammed Yazzer Mahmun had won the TV Journalism category of the 2007 Malaysian Press Institute (MPI)-Petronas Malaysian Press Awards.

Kota Kinabalu-based Elphege and Yazzer received their award from the Prime Minister, Datuk Seri Abdullah Ahmad Badawi at the 2008 Malaysian Press Night in Kuala Lmpur recently. They took home a cash prize of RM7,000 and a certificate of appreciation.

To make their victory sweeter, they were joined by their Kuala Lumpur-based colleague Karam Singh Walia who won in the Environment Journalism (Electronic Media) category. Karam is no stranger to viewers of TV3 news bulletins. He is perhaps the best known broadcast journalist specialising in environmental issues and he amuses his audience by always ending his report with a Malay pantun (quatrain).

(Please see picture above. From the right are Karam, Yazzer, Elphege, the Prime Minister and other winners. Click on picture for a larger view.)

So,congratulations Elphege and Yazzer. As a fellow Sabahan, I am proud of you two. Even prouder that you were the only Sabahans who won this year at the national-level contest. I am sure your victory will spur other Sabah journalists on.

(Footnote: Elphege is a brother of our fellow Sabahan blogger and Giut.Net member Ben Godomon. His main blog, Chronicles, can be accessed at http://bengodomon.com.)