{"id":73465,"date":"2019-01-22T03:29:57","date_gmt":"2019-01-22T01:29:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.times.mw\/?p=73465"},"modified":"2019-01-22T03:29:57","modified_gmt":"2019-01-22T01:29:57","slug":"journos-for-sports-awards","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/2019\/01\/22\/journos-for-sports-awards\/","title":{"rendered":"Journos for Sports Awards"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><em>By Ronald Mpaso: <\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_73470\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-73470\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.times.mw\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/malawi-sports-awards.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-73470\" src=\"http:\/\/www.times.mw\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/malawi-sports-awards-300x161.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"161\" srcset=\"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/malawi-sports-awards-300x161.jpg 300w, https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/malawi-sports-awards.jpg 681w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-73470\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">REWARDING EXCELLENCE\u2014Malawi Sports Awards<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Malawi National Council of Sports (MNCS) has engaged 15 sports journalists to help with athletes\u2019 selection in Malawi Sports Awards.<\/p>\n<p>The awards ceremony will be held for the second time after its <a href=\"http:\/\/www.times.mw\/football-dominates-sports-awards\/\">inaugural event<\/a> in Lilongwe last year.<\/p>\n<p>MNCS Administration Manager, Henry Mereka, said the decision to engage journalists was arrived at to enhance credibility of the final results.<\/p>\n<p>Mereka said the journalists, who have been drawn from both print and electronic media houses, will be part of the nomination process of the awardees.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>\u201cSports journalists work with the athletes, administrators and technical personnel on a daily basis and we want their contribution. We have been working with them in many areas and this is just a continuation of what has been there before,\u201d<\/em> he said.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Mereka said the identities of the journalists are being kept under wraps to ensure that they make independent decisions during the process.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>\u201cWe are also working with other stakeholders besides the journalists. We are making every effort to ensure that we maintain the credibility of the selection process,\u201d<\/em> he said.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>One of last year\u2019s winners, Griffin Saenda Junior\u2014who lifted the Coach of the Year accolade\u2014 commended MNCS for the decision.<\/p>\n<p>Saenda Junior said the scribes are capable of making meaningful contributions to the nomination process as they work with all stakeholders in the sports sector.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>\u201cI do not doubt the capability of journalists in contributing effectively to the awards as they follow sports events closely,\u201d<\/em> he said.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Ronald Mpaso: Malawi National Council of Sports (MNCS) has engaged 15 sports journalists to help with athletes\u2019 selection in Malawi Sports Awards. The awards ceremony will be held for the second time after its inaugural event in Lilongwe last year. MNCS Administration Manager, Henry Mereka, said the decision to engage journalists was arrived at [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-73465","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73465","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=73465"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73465\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":73471,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73465\/revisions\/73471"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=73465"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=73465"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=73465"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}