Mejlak’s success represents the fifth award in e-journalism given as part of the Malta Journalism Awards.

In the previous four years MaltaMedia Online News won first place in the e-journalism category of the Awards three times. Last year Malta Media Online News won the award with Wired Malta, a blog by Robert Micallef. Previous winners were Martin Debattista, Chief Executive Officer of MaltaMedia news who won in 2003 and Pierre J Mejlak who also won in 2005.

The Gold Award, which is awarded to a person deemed to have gone beyond the requirements of normal journalistic practice during his or her career, was given to Mr Lino Cassar. The Jury of the Gold Award was made up of Dr Roger Degiorgio, Frans Ghirxi and President Emeritus Guido de Marco as Chairman. The Award was presented President Emeritus Ugo Mifsud Bonnici. Previous winners were Fr Joe Borg (1998), Anton Cassar (1999), Frank Attard (2000), J.G. Vassallo (2001), Anthony Montanaro (2002), John Manduca (2003), Charles Grech Orr (2004), Pawlu Carachi (2005) and Paul Saliba (2006).

This year’s independent jury for the awards was constituted by Ranier Fsadni, Michael Schiavone and Anton Cassar as Chairman. The full list of winners were the following:

This is the full list of the winners:

Print Journalism – News First: Vanessa Macdonald (The Times)

Print Journalism - Features First: Vanessa Macdonald (The Times)

Press Photography First: Darrin Zammit Lupi (The Times)

Overseas Assignments First: Alvin Scicluna (TVM)

Broadcast Journalism – TV Script First: Reno Bugeja (TVM)

Broadcast Journalism – TV Film First: Alvin Scicluna (TVM)

Broadcast Journalism – Radio First: RTK

Cultural Tourism First: Alvin Scicluna (TVM)

E-Journalism First: Maltastar.com

Sports Photography: First: Matthew Mirabelli (The Times)

Sports Journalism Category First: Benny Pace ( L-Orizzont/The Times/Ir-Referi)

L-Ilsien Malti fil-Gurnali¿mu First: Pierre J. Mejlak (maltamedia.com)