{"id":69007,"date":"2017-07-03T12:00:00","date_gmt":"2017-07-03T10:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/echonews.sites.caxton.co.za\/69007\/observer-wins-big-at-fcj-awards\/"},"modified":"2017-07-03T12:52:44","modified_gmt":"2017-07-03T10:52:44","slug":"observer-wins-big-at-fcj-awards","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/news-headlines\/2017\/07\/03\/observer-wins-big-at-fcj-awards\/","title":{"rendered":"Observer wins big at FCJ Awards"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Daleen Naude was crowned the Journalist of the Year and also walked away with the top prizes in the Hard News and Investigative Reporting categories.<\/p>\n<p>Jana Boshoff won the newly established category for Best Digital Journalist of the Year. Judges said that Jana won due to her use of a variety of online platforms to tell a story and that her work recognises the need to break news on social media while adding depth to a story via the print newspaper and the website.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_69009\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-69009\" style=\"width: 520px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-69009\" src=\"https:\/\/mobserver.co.za\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/92\/2017\/06\/IMG_0326_21616-520x390.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"520\" height=\"390\" srcset=\"https:\/\/dwu32cgxelq1c.cloudfront.net\/local_newspapers\/sites\/92\/2017\/06\/IMG_0326_21616-520x390.jpg 520w, https:\/\/dwu32cgxelq1c.cloudfront.net\/local_newspapers\/sites\/92\/2017\/06\/IMG_0326_21616-270x203.jpg 270w, https:\/\/dwu32cgxelq1c.cloudfront.net\/local_newspapers\/sites\/92\/2017\/06\/IMG_0326_21616-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/dwu32cgxelq1c.cloudfront.net\/local_newspapers\/sites\/92\/2017\/06\/IMG_0326_21616.jpg 800w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 520px) 100vw, 520px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-69009\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Jana Boshoff receives her award from Jaco Koekemoer, Caxton CEO.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>&#8220;She uses Facebook Live which is a wonderful breaking news tool, and then she writes stories which are uploaded to the web later,&#8221; stated the judges.<\/p>\n<p>She was third in the Columns category.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking on Daleen Naude&#8217;s Journalist Of The Year winning entry, judges stated that Daleen was the &#8220;clear winner&#8221;, having also won in the Hard News and Investigative Reporting categories as well as being the runner-up in Human Interest. She was also under the top 10 finalists in the category for Headline Writing, fourth with a news photograph and a finalist in the Photographer of the Year category.<\/p>\n<p>Gerhard Rheeder was second in the Hard News category and a finalist in the Editorial Comment category.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_69008\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-69008\" style=\"width: 520px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-69008\" src=\"https:\/\/mobserver.co.za\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/92\/2017\/06\/IMG_0333_02498-520x390.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"520\" height=\"390\" srcset=\"https:\/\/dwu32cgxelq1c.cloudfront.net\/local_newspapers\/sites\/92\/2017\/06\/IMG_0333_02498-520x390.jpg 520w, https:\/\/dwu32cgxelq1c.cloudfront.net\/local_newspapers\/sites\/92\/2017\/06\/IMG_0333_02498-270x203.jpg 270w, https:\/\/dwu32cgxelq1c.cloudfront.net\/local_newspapers\/sites\/92\/2017\/06\/IMG_0333_02498-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/dwu32cgxelq1c.cloudfront.net\/local_newspapers\/sites\/92\/2017\/06\/IMG_0333_02498.jpg 800w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 520px) 100vw, 520px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-69008\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Journalist of the Year, Daleen Naude, and Jaco Koekemoer, Caxton CEO.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Jana came third in the category for Photographer of the Year.<\/p>\n<p>Johann Gresse was a finalist in Sports Writing.<\/p>\n<p>\u2022Editor Tobie van den Bergh, who was a finalist in both Editorial Comment and the Columns Category, was also again elected as Mpumalanga Director of the Forum of Community Newspapers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Journalists of the Middelburg Observer outshone the rest at the annual FCJ Excellence Awards for 2016 held at the Leriba Hotel and Spa in Centurion on Friday 23 June 2017.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1848,"featured_media":69010,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"hasGravity":false,"cxt_article_byline":"Tobie van den Bergh","cxt_disable_google_ads":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-69007","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local-news","category-news-headlines"],"category_labels":{"Category":"News","SubCategory":"Local news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69007","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1848"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=69007"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69007\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/69010"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=69007"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=69007"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=69007"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}