SBS Radio takes top honours at media awards

SBS Radio has taken home top honours at the the 2014 NSW Premier's Multicultural Media Awards on Wednesday night.

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Manpreet Singh and Sacha Payne. (Photo credit: Ryan Emery, SBS)

SBS Radio's Manpreet Singh and Sacha Payne won "Best Feature of the Year" and "Best Radio Report of the Year" with their documentary series, "The Enemy Within". 

Listen: "The Enemy Within"

Florencia Melgar from the Spanish program won the "Best Investigative Story of the Year" award for her documentary, "The Other 9-11" and was a finalist in the "Best Radio Report of the Year" category.

Ms Melgar's "Latinhub" was also selected as the finalist in the "Best Use of Online and Digital Media" category. 

Ryan Emery - SBS's Western Australia correspondent - was a finalist in the in the "Best Radio Report of the Year" category for his piece about a Burundian refugee who became a foster carer.

The previous head of SBS Radio, Mr Quang Luu AO, was honoured with a lifetime achievement award.

The NSW Premier’s Multicultural Media Awards recognise excellence in journalism among reporters, photographers, editors and publishers in print, radio, television and digital media across 12 award categories.


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