TEN media practitioners will receive this year’s top news talent awards, the Shenzhen Journalism Talent Foundation Office has announced.

The awardees are Xiao Yi, Dong Chao, Tang Yaming, Zhao Weigang, Li Hong, Liu Weiming, Chen Hongyan, Liu Fangyong, Qin Xingmei and Jin Wenrong. Most of them are reporters, editors or TV anchors working at Shenzhen Media Group or Shenzhen Press Group.

The Shenzhen Journalism Talent Award is the top award acknowledging contributions of media practitioners to the city’s news industry. To select the best news talents in Shenzhen out of 34 candidates, the organizing committee invited media scholars and managers to be judges.

Through strict evaluation and rounds of anonymous voting, the judging panel selected the 10 winners.

The list of the 10 nominees was posted for public review between Oct. 19 and Monday. The judging panel received a dissent regarding one nominee, but the opinion was later rejected due to its irrelevance to the nominee’s actual situation. The judging panel gave an official response to the complainant who subsequently agreed to withdraw the dissent.

An awards ceremony is scheduled for Nov. 6, where the awardees will share their stories about working in the media industry as role models.

(Zhang Qian)