Kathmandu, 12 July: The Jasuda Khaki Memorial Foundation has decided to present this year’s journalist ‘Jasuda Memorial Award’ to journalist Som Suseli who has been pursuing journalism for the past 30 years. The award carries a Rs 10,000 and a letter of honour.
The award will be bestowed upon Suseli on July 13, marking the birth anniversary of Aadikavi Bhanubhakta Acharya, according to the Jasuda Khaki Memorial’s president Bimal Baidhya. Suseli started his career in journalism in 1991 from Saptahik Bichar, a vernacular weekly newspaper published in Jhapa. He is currently working as a station manager in the Nepal Vani FM and is the Editor-in-Chief editor of Ilam Express daily.
The Award has been established in memory of late journalist and poet Jasuda Pradhan. Late Pradhan was the founding managing editor of the Samrachana vernacular Weekly and People’s Review weekly. She hailed from Ilam. Late Jasuda was actively associated in the field of journalism for more than three decades before she took her last breath. She passed away in July 2010.
People’s News Monitoring Service
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