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Award-winning WIMN member Ruth Kanyanga Kamwi<\/em><\/p><\/div>\n <\/p>\n Ruth Kanyanga Kamwi\u00a0<\/strong>is the Deputy Assignments Editor \u2013 Community News for the Zambia National Broadcasting Corporation (ZNBC) and a member of the Gra\u00e7a Machel Trust Women in Media Network. She has worked for ZNBC for 20 as a radio and TV producer, as well as a newsroom reporter.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n In that time, she has worked in producing in-depth news and health documentaries. Her reporting on health has been that of analyzing policy issues around the provision of health services. \u201cI have produced documentaries on supply chain and management of contraceptives in Zambia, availability, and access to Post-exposure prophylaxis, for vulnerable and risky behaviour groups such as sex workers, provision of SRHR services to persons with disabilities among others.\u201d<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Her hard work and dedication saw her recognised and awarded last week by the Zambian National Health Research Authority -NHRA- a statutory body under the Ministry of Health. Ruth was awarded the Outstanding TV Documentary in Health. NHRA holds research conferences every two years and it is at these conferences that outstanding researchers in health and media are honoured.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n \u201cI learnt about the award on the morning of October 6, 2020. I received a phone call Kutha Banda-Mhango, the Senior Research Coordination & Knowledge Translation Officer at National Health Research Authority. She informed me about what I was not aware of, the fact that I had been nominated for an award and now I was the winner of that award. My first reaction was\u2026 \u2018really, so which documentary are we talking about \u2026.\u2019 She was like \u2018\u2026 one of the many that you had produced and well researched\u201d\u2026she congratulated me and extended an invitation for me to attend the awards ceremony the next day\u2026 and yes! It came as a surprise,\u201d shared Ruth.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Award-winning WIMN member Ruth Kanyanga Kamwi receiving her prize.\u00a0<\/em><\/p><\/div>\n \u201cI was stunned, to say the least, because to start with, I have never been a fun of entering for awards. Throughout my career, I have always been on firm ground and believe that the best measure for my journalistic work is the impact that it creates on my targeted audience.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n The award is a win for ZNBC and the current affairs team. At a time when the public service broadcaster no longer enjoys the monopoly of being the only national broadcaster due to digital migration which has seen many other stations enjoying national reach, a documentary by ZNBC still stood out. So I dedicated it to all the hardworking Journalists at ZNBC,\u201d she added.<\/p>\n Her advice to upcoming journalists in her field? \u201cJournalism should be about service above self. Do your work without fear or favour; stick to the basics of the profession, above all get your facts rights! Be deliberate and develop ideas that will influence\/impact on the lives of your audience, ideas that will influence policy shifts for the benefit of the public.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Ruth Kanyanga Kamwi\u00a0is the Deputy Assignments Editor \u2013 […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3985,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"_rtcl_gb_attr":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[81,90,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3970","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-highlight","category-media","category-uncategorized"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/test.gbstudio.co.za\/gmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3970","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/test.gbstudio.co.za\/gmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/test.gbstudio.co.za\/gmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/test.gbstudio.co.za\/gmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/test.gbstudio.co.za\/gmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3970"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/test.gbstudio.co.za\/gmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3970\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/test.gbstudio.co.za\/gmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3985"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/test.gbstudio.co.za\/gmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3970"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/test.gbstudio.co.za\/gmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3970"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/test.gbstudio.co.za\/gmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3970"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"\"](\"https:\/\/test.gbstudio.co.za\/gmt\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/WhatsApp-Image-2020-10-11-at-00.57.00-400x338.jpeg\")