Star journo Mirdha wins AmCham award

The Daily Star senior staff reporter Mohammad Refayet Ullah Mirdha has won the prestigious AmCham Frontline Journalism Award for his work during the Covid-19 pandemic.

Along with him, some 25 journalists from print and electronic media also won the awards, and were presented with crests, certificates, and cash prizes by Foreign Minister A K Abdul Momen at a virtual programme yesterday.

Mirdha won the award for his report "Exports crash to a 40-year-low", published on The Daily Star on May 9 of last year.

The award was organised by American Chamber of Commerce and Industry in Bangladesh (AmCham), in collaboration with Masthead PR.