L/R: Brooks seen interviewing the Bangladeshi Commander and UNMIL Force Commander
The Head of the Global News Network and Publishers of the GNN News Online, Mr. J. Cholo Brooks has been nominated among 15 selected journalists coming from the five continents of the world to participate in the 2006 Lorenzo Natali Prize Award for working journalists.
According to a communication from the 15th Lorenzo Natali Prize of the European Commission-DG Development addressed to the GNN boss, and signed by Zuzanna Podosek-Perrin, said, “You wrote an article entitled “Rural Liberia Gets Face-Lift from UNMIL Bangladesh Engineer Contingent which appeared on Friday, June 29, 2006 which appeared in the Liberian Times. That article of quality drew our attention and asked that you to compete the Lorenzo Natali Prize 2006 of European Commission.”
The communication further said, “The European Commission has committed itself to support and congratulate the written press journalists who will have shown remarkable judgement in their articles on Human Rights and Democracy issues in the development world,” the European Commission-DG Development communication said.
“A donation of 50,000.00 EUROS are envisaged for 2006 in order to reward the 15 selected journalists who are written and online press and working for local media in the following five world regions: Europe (Member States and Central, Eastern and Mediterranean Europe) Africa, Arab World, Iran and Israel, Asia and the Pacific, Latin America and the Caribbean,” the communication further stressed.
The communication also disclosed that the winners of the award are expected to be invited for the handing-over of the prizes which will “proceed in Brussels in May 2007.”
Mr. Brooks a former Correspondent of the BBC African Service prior to setting up the GNN worked for several news online including the http://www.africanevents/, http://www.trouwnewspaper.com/ of the Netherlands, http://www.limany.org/ and http://www.theliberiantimes.com/. His institution the GNN also publishes two weeklies, The Star and The Weekend Newspapers.
Mr. Brooks’ fearless coverage of events especially during the early days of the Liberian Civil War 1990-1996) made him to win the Press Union of Liberia (PUL) 1994 “Foreign Correspondent of the Year Award”.
According to a communication from the 15th Lorenzo Natali Prize of the European Commission-DG Development addressed to the GNN boss, and signed by Zuzanna Podosek-Perrin, said, “You wrote an article entitled “Rural Liberia Gets Face-Lift from UNMIL Bangladesh Engineer Contingent which appeared on Friday, June 29, 2006 which appeared in the Liberian Times. That article of quality drew our attention and asked that you to compete the Lorenzo Natali Prize 2006 of European Commission.”
The communication further said, “The European Commission has committed itself to support and congratulate the written press journalists who will have shown remarkable judgement in their articles on Human Rights and Democracy issues in the development world,” the European Commission-DG Development communication said.
“A donation of 50,000.00 EUROS are envisaged for 2006 in order to reward the 15 selected journalists who are written and online press and working for local media in the following five world regions: Europe (Member States and Central, Eastern and Mediterranean Europe) Africa, Arab World, Iran and Israel, Asia and the Pacific, Latin America and the Caribbean,” the communication further stressed.
The communication also disclosed that the winners of the award are expected to be invited for the handing-over of the prizes which will “proceed in Brussels in May 2007.”
Mr. Brooks a former Correspondent of the BBC African Service prior to setting up the GNN worked for several news online including the http://www.africanevents/, http://www.trouwnewspaper.com/ of the Netherlands, http://www.limany.org/ and http://www.theliberiantimes.com/. His institution the GNN also publishes two weeklies, The Star and The Weekend Newspapers.
Mr. Brooks’ fearless coverage of events especially during the early days of the Liberian Civil War 1990-1996) made him to win the Press Union of Liberia (PUL) 1994 “Foreign Correspondent of the Year Award”.
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