Winners of the All-Russian MediaTEK Competition 2019 Awarded

October 2, 2019

Winners of the All-Russian MediaTEK Competition 2019 Awarded

Rosseti Group, Gazprom and RusHydro led in terms of the prize numbers.

The Russian Energy Week 2019 honoured the winners of the fifth All-Russian competition MediaTEK. The expert council presented awards to the press officers of fuel and energy companies and journalists for the best industry publications, as well as implemented PR projects.

The award recipients are Gazprom, Rosseti and their subsidiaries, RusHydro, T Plus, Sibur, SUEK, and the Moscow City Department of Housing, Utilities and Amenities. The media nominees are IA TASS, Komersant-Chernozemye (Voronezh Region), Neftegaz.RU International, Economics Today (St. Petersburg), as well as regional mass media Krasny Sever Newspaper (Yamal-Nenets Autonomous Area), the Oblastnaya Newspaper (Irkutsk Region), the Luzhskaya Pravda Newspaper (Leningrad Region), the Krasnoyarsk branch of Komsomolskaya Pravda Publishing House, Tatarstan-24 television station (Republic of Tatarstan), the New Television of Siberia (Irkutsk Region), SakhaMedia (Republic of Yakutia), VGTRK-GTRK Irkutsk, and Mir Belogorya television station (Belgorod Region).

Holding companies’ specialists took the majority of awards. Gazprom (15 awards), Rosseti (12 awards), and RusHydro (12 awards) were in the lead, while and T Plus won 5 awards. Twelve communication campaigns received special expert council prizes.

The organizing committee regularly notes the high professionalism of the contest participants and the quality of the submitted projects. Journalists and press services of energy companies support public interest in current power industry topics.

Presidential Press Secretary Dmitry Peskov noted that journalists cover both the advances and poignant issues of the industry, which helps to find the solutions to current challenges.

Minister of Energy, member of the expert council Alexander Novak expressed gratitude to the media representatives and energy companies for participating in the competition.

“The power industry development is linked to informing consumers. New technologies should be introduced, and through you, the industry is getting closer to the general public,” said Alexander Novak.

Dmitry Kiselyov, head of the state news agency Rossiya Segodnya was on the competition panel of experts. “If the power industry is the driver of the Russian economy, then journalism should fuel the human spirit. Today we acknowledge the best of the trade, not the industry-specific journalists. MediaTEK is a truly large-scale event in the number of participating professionals.”

In total, MediaTEK-2019 received 443 entries from 54 regions of the country.

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