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.
