Top prize for Foundation-trained writer
Kampala – Walter Wafula, a business writer on the Uganda Daily Monitor, has won a top financial journalist award just weeks after attending a Thomson Reuters Foundation Writing Business News course.
“That training played a major part in the grand prize,” he said in a message to Reuters.
Wafula took part in a Foundation course in Kampala in March, 2010. Two months later he was named Uganda’s best financial journalist in the print category in the annual Kikonyogo Capital Markets Authority Awards.
“Winning has made me realise that readers out there appreciate the quality of my work and that I have become a better journalist than I was last year,” Wafula said. “But I cannot rest on my success because the stakes are high.”
The Kikonyogo awards honour individuals and media houses that have excelled in promoting financial markets in Uganda through outstanding stories and writing.
The Monitor group was named best media house. Mr Japheth Katto, chief executive officer of the Capital Markets Authority, said: “We do this to emphasise the key role the media plays in creating awareness about capital markets in Uganda.”
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