We appreciate (PIND’s) participation and contribution to the success of the 31st edition of the Diamond Awards for Media Excellence (DAME), Africa’s longest running and most consistent award scheme for media professionals. It is on record that this edition marks the first me that DAME has expanded its frontiers to cover Niger-Delta Development Reporting, and this was made possible by its graceful partnership with the PIND. This marriage has proven strategic for a number of reasons, but notably because it gives traction to DAME’s sustained graduation from traditional journalism to development-oriented journalism (on one hand), while it goes a mile to prove PIND’s intentionality and commitment to the growth of solution journalism in Nigeria.
