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Africa-Press – Liberia. <\/strong><\/span>The Journalist of the Year Award goes to Lennart Dodoo of FrontPage Africa!\u201d the announcement\u2014from Mr. Nathan N. Bengu (Chairman of the Awards Vetting Committee)\u2014reverberated across the Reception Segment of the Ministerial Complex of the Republic of Liberia. The event was the 2021\/2022 \u201cMedia Excellence Awards & Dinner Night\u201d of the Press Union of Liberia (PUL) The Date of the event was Saturday, May 28, 2022. And the venue was the Reception Hall of the Ministerial Complex in Oldest Congo Town, outside of the Nation\u2019s Capital\u2014Monrovia.<\/p>\n

By Samuel G. Dweh, Contributing Writer<\/b><\/p>\n

Seconds after the announcement, adulatory screams from the winner\u2019s work colleagues (from the same print media institutions) and friends shot up and continued throughout the rising of the winner from his seat and trudge towards to stage to receive his award and make \u201ca short remark\u201d.<\/p>\n

Seconds later, a dark-complexioned young man (in maroon coat suit)slowly rose from the table he shared with other participants for the event.<\/p>\n

After receiving the Award, Lennart said he was surprised by his being selected for the Award, thanked the Press Union of Liberia\u2019s leadership and its partners on organizing the event.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis award represents symbol of public\u2019s appreciation of the work we do at FrontPage. We feel more rewarded when we see our work, our stories inspiring change in our country, when we see major decisions which could have otherwise had adverse effects on our community, county or country being revealed\u2014that is the essence of Journalism. We will continue to strive to deliver quality stories and more in-depth investigations,\u201d said the Journalist of the Year Award recipient, Lennart Dodoo, during his remark after receiving the Award.<\/p>\n

A News Desk Chief of FrontPage Africa Newspaper, Lennart Dodoo became more popular on two of his investigative stories. The first (published in June 24, 2022) is about \u201clies\u201d by Montserrado County Senator, Hon. Darius Dillon, about flying on \u201cEconomy Class\u201d Air fare (on Asky Airline), when he was travelling to the United States, instead of a \u201cBusiness-Class air fare\u201d he had travelled on. Lennart\u2019s story was accompanied by a photo of the Senator in the \u201cBusiness Class\u201d. On Lennart\u2019s story, the \u201cmost vocal Senator\u201d\u2014against \u201ccorruption\u201d and \u201clies\u201d (especially by Senator Dillon\u2019s political opponents)\u2014confessed to use of \u201cBusiness Class\u201d and he apologized for his \u2018false information\u2019 he had given to the Liberian public.<\/p>\n

The second story that earned for Lennart national attention is about \u201cdiversion\u201d (by public officials) of twenty four million United States Dollars (US$24m) meant for maintenance of national roads. The story pushed the General Auditing Commission (GAC) into investigation\u2014and discovered the \u201ctruth\u201d of the Journalist\u2019s report.<\/p>\n

Lennart Dodoo\u2019s entry into the Liberian News Media Space was uncharted\u2014he came in indirectly.<\/p>\n

On May 30, 2022, while patching this write-up, I had an opportunity of speaking with the new \u201cJournalist of the Year\u201d in Liberia, and I \u2018demanded\u2019 on him to take me down memory lane of his journalistic journey.<\/p>\n

He obliged, and narrated (reproduced below)<\/p>\n

\u201cMr. Kenneth Y. Best, Publisher of the Daily Observer newspaper, gave me the opportunity to learn to be a journalist at the DO (Daily Observer) I started by helping to take care of the library. It all started in January, 2009. Later, I was given the opportunity to start contributing stories. I was later assigned at the Temple of Justice and the Liberia National Police Headquarters as a freelancer. I was later taken in as a full-time employee. In 2011, I moved to the INSIGHT Newspaper, where I served as a reporter and subsequently a News Editor. In 2016, I joined the FrontPage Africa Newspaper as a sub-editor and then the News Desk Chief.\u201d<\/p>\n

I had worked with Lennart Dodoo at the INSIGHT newspaper where I was employed as Editor-in-Chief in 2011 by the Publisher, Mr. Adolphus Dolo, former Senator of the Republic of Liberia. The INSIGHT was my next media place of work after I left Daily Observer where I was a Proofreader\/Copy Editor for six months in 2011.<\/p>\n

The Daily Observer was my first media-related workplace when I returned home (in May, 2011) after my 10-year refugee life in Nigeria (2001-2011), where I also got formal journalism training at the Times Journalism Institute (TJI)\u2014training arm of the Daily Times Newspaper of Nigeria. When I was in TJI, the school was located at Plot 40\/42 Imam Dauda Way, Iganmu, Orile, Lagos State.<\/p>\n

During the our working collaboration at INSIGHT Newspaper, Lennart Dodoo was exceptionally productive and humble to me\u2014his \u2018boss\u2019 on the editorial team. I can\u2019t remember a day when Lennart exhibited insubordination against me on any editorial matter\u2014what story the News Editor should endorse or send in first, what story should make the front page\u2019s lead, et cetera.<\/p>\n

And Lennart was my \u201cin-house teacher\u201d \u2014even though I was his \u201csuperior colleague\u201d\u2014sometimes calling my attention to errors of spellings and grammatical constructions in \u201cfinally edited stories\u201d (by me) to be sent to the Layout person, or in the Paper already on the Newsstand!<\/p>\n

The professional environment at FrontPageAfrica (FPA) newspaper\u2014which clinched the \u201cNewspaper of the Year Award\u201d at the same event (the second time in succession)\u2014further molded Lennart Dodoo into the \u2018Journalistic Giant\u2019 he is today. Mr. Rodney D. Sieh is the Managing Editor, and known to most media practitioners as part-owner of the paper. FPA, founded in 2005, has won the \u201cNewspaper of the Year\u201d on numerous occasions. This is the second time the paper has won Newspaper of the Year under Lennart\u2019s leadership of the newsroom.<\/p>\n

FPA is the \u201cleader\u201d of the print category of the Liberian media sector\u2014State-owned or private (independent) I, actively practicing journalist, am not the only person (no form of attachment to Paper) with this view. My regular reading of published stories in each of the Newspapers is the basis of my \u2018feeling\u2019.<\/p>\n

Here are factors for my view\/opinion: FrontPage Africa is the only newspaper that doesn\u2019t dedicate a \u201cfull page\u201d with foreign stories (because of insufficient number of local stories) like each of the other newspaper do (some Papers give more than two pages to foreign information); FrontPageAfrica is the only Paper that goes deeper into (thoroughly investigate) a story more than each of the other Papers; FrontPage Africa leads other Papers on salary to its reporters and editors (smaller salary of other newspapers\u2019 reporters cause their begging for money from newsmakers at public functions); FrontPageAfrica is the only Paper not deep into \u201cpolitical praise-singing\u201d (praising of a politician\u2014and critically report on any politician or political party), unlike each of the other Papers does (shown with headline or caption of \u2018political story\u2019); and the FrontPage Africa\u2019s Publisher\/Managing Editor gives the Paper\u2019s Editor-in-Chief\/News Desk Chief \u201cexternal media experience exposure\u201d (travel for International Media Event) than any of the Publishers of the other Papers; and FPA prioritizes in-house journalistic training of its reporters (new entrants\u2014fresh graduates from Liberian Journalism schools or from a High School\u2019s Press Club), which is based on FPA Publisher\u2019s \u2018solid journalistic writing background\u2019 from Daily Observer newspaper (owned by his uncle, Kenneth Y. Best, one of Liberia\u2019s prolific writers) He\u2019s a relative of Kenneth Best, according to some sources, and the \u201cwriting blood\u201d runs through both persons\u2019 skin.<\/p>\n

Rodney\u2019s equals in prolific writing, in Liberia\u2019s media community, are Tom Kamara (now deceased), Publisher of the New Democrat Newspaper; and Mr. Kenneth Best\u2014his \u2018uncle\u2019. Other Publishers are good at only \u201cediting\u201d stories or \u201csigning cheques\u201d for advertisement fees from the Paper\u2019s clients\u2014Government, UN Agencies, etc.<\/p>\n

The involvement of the United States Government, through the United States Agency for International Development (USAID), in the 2021\/2022 Press Union of Liberia\u2019s Media Excellence Awards event made it \u201cmore graceful\u201d.<\/p>\n

During his Keynote Sppech, Mr. Joel Maybury, the Deputy Chief of Mission of the Embassy of the United States of America to Liberia, Mr. Joel Maybury,stressed on cautioned \u2018imbalanced reporting\u2019 by PUL members, encouraged them to prioritize reportage on human rights, women and children, and lamented on wanton killings of Journalists across the globe.<\/p>\n

Press Union of Liberia President, Charles B. Coffey, Jr., appealed for more support from the Liberian Government and Liberia\u2019s International Development Partners for professional empowerment of the Liberian Media community.<\/p>\n

Mr. Jarwala Tonpoh, representing the Government of Liberia, through the Ministry of Information, Cultural Affairs & Tourism (MICAT), recommended \u201cIntegrity Award\u201d and \u201cOutstanding Public Service Award\u201d to be added to the PUL\u2019s yearly reward event on outstanding journalistic productions.<\/p>\n

Even though the current Leadership is being \u201cpraised\u201d for offering \u2018rewards\u2019 to deserving Journalists, this body of officials is also on the media radar for \u2018unethical actions\u2019. One example is \u2018holding on\u2019 to the \u201cDevelopment Journalist of the Year Award\u201d (2018\/2019) for member Samuel G. Dweh. The Award is a digital recorder donated by USAID-sponsored LAVI (Liberia Accountability and Voice Initiative), a member of the 2018\/2019 Award Committee member, Madam Torwon Sulunten Brown, disclosed to me one year after the event.<\/p>\n

There was another issue with the Award Certificate given to me (one year after the event) through PUL\u2019s Project Manager, Mr. James David: No signature of the Awards Committee Chairman, Mr. JarwalaTonpoh\u2014now Deputy Head of Press & Public Affairs of the Ministry of Information, Cultural & Tourism (MICAT)<\/p>\n

We, members of the PUL, can \u201cget it professionally and ethically right\u201d\u2014as FrontPage Africa\u2019s News Desk Chief, Lennart Dodoo, has shown with his \u2018good stories\u2019 that earned for him the \u201cJournalist of the Year Award\u201d<\/p>\n

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