French writer Frederic Begbede was a special guest at the ceremony, which attracted over 450 people from the media and advertising world
The M-Tel Media Masters grand prize was awarded to Nadezhda Vasileva from BNT and Vladimir Vladkov from “Computerworld” magazine at an official ceremony that took place last night in hall 6 of the Inter Expo Center in the presence of more than 450 guests from the media and advertising world . The CEO of M-Tel Andreas Mayerhofer presented the prize to Nadezhda Vasileva for her report “Villages without television”, and the special guest of the evening – the French writer Frederic Begbede gave the prize to Vladimir Vladkov for his material “The new battlefield – digital television”
The M-Tel Media Masters competition, which was held for the first time in 2010, aroused great interest among journalists. Over 60 materials from 26 national and regional media competed for the grand prize – a certificate, a cash prize of BGN 5,000 and a laptop computer. Journalistic materials were divided into two main categories – “Electronic Media” and “Print Media”. In each category, 6 materials were nominated, of which three received awards /See below all nominated and awarded journalists/. The ranking was made by a competent jury consisting of: journalists Toma Tomov and Kalina Androlova, media expert Georgi Lozanov, publisher Raymond Wagenstein, chairmen of the Union of Bulgarian Journalists and the Bulgarian Society for Public Relations, Milen Valkov and Milena Atanasova.
Frederic Begbede began his speech with “I love you” in a decent Bulgarian language and spoke about the influence and significance of telecommunications on the life of every person. He chose the topic Are We Entering the “Brave New World” based on Aldous Huxley’s dystopia of the same name and presented it in a unique and unique way. Begbede gave himself as an example – yesterday he overslept, missed the plane and after several telephone conversations between Paris and Sofia, he still managed to fly to participate in the M-Tel Media Masters award ceremony. This was just one of many examples of the “good” role of telecommunications, which we cannot do without. Then he focused on their “bad” part, which leads to people’s reluctance to study and read because they rely more and more on Internet information. Begbede concluded by urging people to live their lives and be themselves.
In Bulgaria, Frederic Begbede will mark 20 years since his debut as a writer, which he made in 1990 with the publication of his first novel, “Memoirs of a Crazy Youth”. Followed by “Rest in Coma” and “Love Lasts Three Years”. He has degrees in political science, marketing, journalism and communications. He is engaged in advertising, television, publicism, literary criticism. He is the author of a number of novels translated into 34 languages. Among them is the filmed “99 francs”, which brought him world fame.
After the M-Tel Media Masters’2010 awards ceremony, the guests of the event had the opportunity to see Frederic Begbede in a different role – that of a DJ. Especially for them, the French writer stood behind the counter and mixed his favorite hits from his personal CD collection, which he specially brought to Sofia. All the guests of M-Tel Media Masters received Begbede’s latest book, “Rest in Coma”, translated into Bulgarian, and some managed to get an autograph from him.
“Print media” category – awards and nominations:
1st place – Vladimir Vladkov, “Computerworld” magazine – “The new battlefield – digital television”
2nd place – Svetoslav Metanov, in “Day Labor”, “Will we wait for more Euroslaps”
3rd place – Orlin Spasov, magazine “Foreign policy” – “Ubiquitous Television”.
Nikolay Marchenko, in “Now” – “The digitization of the airwaves can return Bulgaria to the last century”
Tsvetan Ilkov, “Standart” village – “They collected the kitchen in a cabinet”
Zdravka Maslyankova, in “Yantra today” – “The problem with GSM antennas enters the National Assembly”
“Electronic media” category – awards and nominations:
1st place – Nadezhda Vasileva, BNT – “Villages without television”
2nd place – Evgeny Genchev, Nova TV – “Freedom or Security”
3rd place – Dimitar Anestev, bTV – “Fears in the magnetic field” Stoyan Toshev, Hicomm.bg – “Close Encounters with the Internet of the Fourth Kind”
Momchil Karabulev, MobileBulgaria.com – “RIM with an eye on Eastern European markets”
Malina Dacheva, Expert.bg – “The Mobile Storm”
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