Sunday Observer Journalist Dimuthu Attanayake is among 12 international journalists short-listed for the prestigious Thomson Foundation Young Journalist Award 2018.
Attanayake is one of two Sri Lankan reporters shortlisted for the award by the Foundation.
Entrants were shortlisted from among a large number of entries from around the world for this year’s competition ranging from Burundi to Bulgaria, Ethiopia to Ecuador and the Philippines to Palestine, the Thomson Foundation said in a news release. Independent judges will select three finalists from the 12 entrants to be revealed in October, while the award ceremony will be held in London in November. The Thomson Foundation is a media development not-for-profit organisation based in London, United Kingdom but operating worldwide. It was founded in 1962 and was the first charitable foundation with the specific aim of training journalists in developing countries.