Waseda University held the final selection of the 2019th "Ishibashi Tanzan Memorial Waseda Journalism Awards" on October 10, 29, and decided 19 "Grand Prizes" and 3 "Encouragement Awards".
The "Ishibashi Tanzan Memorial Waseda Journalism Award" was established in 2000 with the aim of fostering speechists who are aware of their social mission and responsibilities, and contributing to the formation of a free and open environment.Every year since 2001, we have discovered and commended the activities of individual journalists who have contributed widely to social culture and the public interest.There are three recruitment departments: "Public Service Department", "Grassroots Democracy Department", and "Cultural Contribution Department".The 3th target work was published in the media for the general public from April 19, 2018 to June 4, 1, and 2019 works were submitted.
The grand prizes in each category are: Public Service Category: Official Document Crisis (Mainichi Shimbun), Grassroots Democracy Category: Investigative Journalism "Respiratory Case" Serialization "Letter of Mika Nishiyama" (Chunichi Shimbun) Chunichi web), Cultural Contribution Division: "The man who fought against capitalism Hirofumi Uzawa and the world of economics" book (Kodansha).
"Public Document Crisis," which won the grand prize in the public service category, is a serialized article that has been ongoing since January 2018, 1 in the Mainichi Shimbun.Regarding the reason for the award, Professor Mieko Nakabayashi (Waseda University Faculty of Social Sciences), one of the selection committee members, said, "We cut into the issue of official documents and questioned the shape of a country consisting of Japan's democracy and history.Although official documents are "intellectual property shared by the people" (Public Records and Archives Management Law), the actual situation is far inferior to that of the United States and other countries. Will the Kake Gakuen problem, which started to recognize "crisis", be repeated in Japan in the future?Here is a hint to answer this question.This news series focuses on the status and systems of official document management, and covers a wide range of topics, including the actual situation of policy sites, loopholes in Japanese political culture and private emails, examples of local governments, and system comparisons with Europe and the United States. The survey clarified the actual situation in Japan and raised further issues, which is suitable for this award.Awareness of the problems of the people and their representatives is the key to the development of document management.It is also an area where the power of the media is tested, and continuous investigative journalism is expected. I commented.
The Encouragement Award is a series of projects (Ryukyu Shinpo) that follow the fact check coverage and fake sources of public service category: prefectural governor election, etc., and the cultural contribution category: news documentary "SCRATCH Discrimination and Heisei" (TBS Radio, RKB Mainichi Broadcasting) ), These are the two works.
