Nominations for the 2025 PNG Media Awards are now open only for the month of March. This means that mainstream media members of the Media Council of Papua New Guinea have this month to collect, decide on, and submit the work of their news personnel for a total of eighteen awards covering Journalism, Radio, Television, Print, Online, and an additional category of Special Awards. The 2025 PNG Media Awards is the return of this annual event to recognize and acknowledge the performance of media personnel over the past year. President of the Media Council of Papua New Guinea, Neville Choi says for these first return of the council’s awards event, nominations are restricted only to mainstream media houses. “Our 2025 PNG Media Awards are aimed at giving a sense of acknowledgement of the hard work that media personnel continue to do every day, while trying to ensure that professional media standards are maintained.” “There is a lot that the media has accomplished in the past year, despite extremely strong criticism from the public.” “The past year has also seen the review and establishing of the Media Council of PNG Code of Ethics and Professional Practice (2024), which is now the recognized standard of professional media in PNG.” “These annual awards are to acknowledge the work media personnel do to inform our citizens and hold our leaders to account while protecting our democracy.” The categories of Media Awards are as follows: JOURNALISM 1. Journalist of the Year 2. Best Investigation 3. Provincial Journalist of the Year 4. Outstanding Young Journalist 5. Sports Journalist of the year 6. Report of the Year RADIO 7. Best Radio Show 8. Radio Presenter of the Year TELEVISION 9. Best Programme/Show 10. TV Presenter of the Year PRINT 11. Best News Story 12. Best Photograph ONLINE 13. Best Website 14. Best Blog 15. Creative Media Award SPECIAL AWARDS 16. Media Personality of the Year 17. Diversity In Media Award 18. Outstanding Contribution to Media Award