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<TABLE cellSpacing=0 width="100%" border=0><TBODY><TR><TD class=news_byline></TD></TR><TR><TD style="HEIGHT: 9px"></TD></TR><TR><TD class=news_summary><SPAN>Prime Minister Portia Simpson Miller chided the media on Friday night for what she says is a lack of investigative journalism. </SPAN><SPAN class=news_body>
Speaking at the Press Association of <SPAN class=kLink style="FONT-WEIGHT: 400; FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: blue! important; FONT-FAMILY: Verdana,Arial; POSITION: relative">Jamaica's</SPAN> 63rd annual awards she said members of the media should make increased effort to dig deeper for the facts and report in a truthful and unbiased manner.
She said this standard should also be adopted by younger media practitioners.
RJR's Dionne Jackson-Miller walked away with the night's biggest award, Journalist of The Year.
TVJ reporter Kirk Wright coped the Theodore Sealy/Hector Bernard Award for his story "Jubilee in Crisis."
The Jamaica Observer's Senior <SPAN class=kLink style="FONT-WEIGHT: 400; FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: blue! important; FONT-FAMILY: Verdana,Arial; POSITION: relative">photographer</SPAN> Michael Gordon walked away with the award for excellence in photography with his controversial picture of the Prime Minister sketching in Parliament.
<SPAN>In the meantime President of the Press Association of Jamaica, <SPAN id="clicksor_sp_desmond richards" onmouseover='return ClxLaD("desmond richards",event)' onmouseout='ClxTMo("desmond richards")'>Desmond Richards</SPAN> is again urging the government to make radical changes to libel and defamation laws. </SPAN>
<SPAN>He says it is time for criminal libel to be removed from the country's law books. </SPAN></SPAN></TD></TR></TBODY></TABLE>
Speaking at the Press Association of <SPAN class=kLink style="FONT-WEIGHT: 400; FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: blue! important; FONT-FAMILY: Verdana,Arial; POSITION: relative">Jamaica's</SPAN> 63rd annual awards she said members of the media should make increased effort to dig deeper for the facts and report in a truthful and unbiased manner.
She said this standard should also be adopted by younger media practitioners.
RJR's Dionne Jackson-Miller walked away with the night's biggest award, Journalist of The Year.
TVJ reporter Kirk Wright coped the Theodore Sealy/Hector Bernard Award for his story "Jubilee in Crisis."
The Jamaica Observer's Senior <SPAN class=kLink style="FONT-WEIGHT: 400; FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: blue! important; FONT-FAMILY: Verdana,Arial; POSITION: relative">photographer</SPAN> Michael Gordon walked away with the award for excellence in photography with his controversial picture of the Prime Minister sketching in Parliament.
<SPAN>In the meantime President of the Press Association of Jamaica, <SPAN id="clicksor_sp_desmond richards" onmouseover='return ClxLaD("desmond richards",event)' onmouseout='ClxTMo("desmond richards")'>Desmond Richards</SPAN> is again urging the government to make radical changes to libel and defamation laws. </SPAN>
<SPAN>He says it is time for criminal libel to be removed from the country's law books. </SPAN></SPAN></TD></TR></TBODY></TABLE>