Felix Dela Klutse, the Managing Editor of Business Day newspaper has been adjudged the 2014 Best Business and Financial Journalist during the first edition of the prestigious IFEJ-Flamingo Awards for business and financial journalism held at the World Bank’s offices in Accra last Friday.

Apart from being the overall winner, Mr Klutse also swept two other awards namely the Best Reporter in Agribusiness and the Best Reporter in Finance.

For his prize, Mr Klutse would be fully sponsored by the World Bank Group to attend the World Bank/IMF Spring meetings in Washington DC, USA, in 2015 in addition to an iPad, among other things.

The Institute of Financial and Economic Journalists (IFEJ), Ghana in August this year, launched the IFEJ-Flamingo Award to reward business and financial journalists in the country. The award seeks to deepen the level of financial journalism in the country while rewarding outstanding financial journalists based on their published works.

The awards are in 10 various categories – Finance (Finance, banking, capital and money markets, insurance etc), ICT, Extractives, Agribusiness, Tourism, Business, Developmental issues, Rural Banking/Micro finance and Micro Enterprise, Business of Health and Best News story. 

The award ceremony was organised in partnership with the World Bank, Enterprise Life Insurance, adb Bank and GIZ/SECO under the theme: “Taking Business and Financial Journalism to higher level.”

Justice William Atuguba, a Supreme Court Judge, who was the guest speaker at the ceremony congratulated all the award winners and advise journalists to be very professional and uphold the ethical values of the profession.

This is the sixth prestigious journalism awards Mr Klutse has received so far. He was adjudged 2010 Best Business News Reporter in Africa during the Diageo Africa Business Reporting Awards held in London.

Mr Klutse was also adjudged the Winner of the 2011 Citi Journalistic Excellence Award, an elite programme administered by the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism in the United States of America in collaboration with Citigroup, a global financial institution.

He was the first Ghanaian journalist to have won the aforementioned two international awards since their inception in 2003 and 1982 respectively.

He was further adjudged the Reporter of the year 2012 during the maiden Gold Awards for Business Journalism held in Ghana.

In his address, Mr Klutse said the award will motivate him to take business and financial journalism to the next level.  He dedicated the awards to the entire staff and management of Business Day Newspaper and his wife, Mrs Elizabeth Klutse.