Star journo wins CMJF’s best reporting award

Ahsan Habib, a staff reporter of The Daily Star, won the Best Reporting Award-2021 of the Capital Market Journalists' Forum (CMJF).

He was recognised in the print media category for his report titled "Walton has great prospects. But questions hang over its IPO prospectus" published in the newspaper on March 3 last year.

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Every year, the Forum gives the award in three categories: print, online and electronic media.

Sayeed Shipon, a staff reporter of Jagonews24.com, won the accolade in the online category, and Alamgir Hossain, a senior reporter of Jamuna Television, in the electronic media category.

Prof Shibli Rubayat-Ul-Islam, chairman of the Bangladesh Securities and Exchange Commission (BSEC), handed over the crests and certificates among the winners at an event at the Westin Dhaka hotel.

Prof Swapan Kumar Bala, a former BSEC commissioner, was the chairman of the jury board. Other members of the jury board were Prof Mohammed Helal Uddin of the economics department at the University of Dhaka, and Asjadul Kibria, planning editor of the Financial Express.