my name is komla dumor.s an aspiring journalist, as a journalist and also to me as an individual. first of all i feel our backgrounds were quite similar. he did not have a traditional, you know, journalism background, just like i didn't. but along the way we've fought to get into the media because we have a passion for for telling stories. seeing komla dumor reporting from... and talking about some of the biggest stories in the world on a platform as big as the bbc... i mean, this man was larger than life. this is a man we're talking about three, four years after he passed on. this is a man the whole world knows about. for me to be identified with him, just a bit, if i can only achieve 10% or 20% of what he did, i would feel like i have made my contribution to journalism, to tell the african story in a different way from an african man or woman's perspective. i'm really looking forward to the bbc komla dumor training programme in london, and while i've been privileged to attend several high—level training pr

welcome to bbc world news, i'm komla dumor.st, as a journalist and as an individual. i thought our backgrounds were quite similar, he didn't have a traditionaljournalism background, just like i didn't, but on the way we fought to get into the media because we have a passion for for telling stories. seeing komla dumor telling the bigger stories in the world on a platform like the bbc... this man was larger than life, three or four years after he passed on, this is a man most of the world knows about. for me to be identified with him, just a bit, if ican identified with him, just a bit, if i can only achieve ten or 20% of what he did, i would feel like i have made my contribution to journalism, to tell the african story in a different way from an african man or woman's perspective. i'm looking forward to the bbc komla dumor award training programme in london, while i have been too many training programmes, no one will immerse me and help me understand what the bbc does than this one. who knows, i might be the next komla dumor. gr

it's a legacy we honour with the annual komla dumor award.and we can reveal right now that the winner of this year's prize is kenyan tv presenter waihiga mwaura. he tells us about the moment he found out. i was out of town, on holiday with my wife. i logged in, the next thing they tell me because i thought this was another interview with the bbc, that i was the winner. started shouting and screaming and told my wife who was in another room to come and see. ijust had his shouting. what does it mean? i am the winner. i got the feeling that in terms of journalism i am on the right path. komla dumor meant a lot of things to me as an inspiring journalist and also as an individual. he did not have a traditionaljournalism background like i did. but along the way we thought to get into the media because we had a passion to telling stories. reporting from an talking about some of the biggest stories in the world on a platform like the bbc. this man was a man bigger than life. a man the whole world knows about. the need to be identified with him, if i

and the kenyan tv presenter waihiga mwaurahas been named the winner of this year's bbc world news komla dumorhe stories that are making the headlines in the media across the world. we begin with the independent and the british opposition leader, jeremy corbyn, at the labour pa rty‘s conference, where he is set to pledge billions of pounds to green industries. next we have the daily telegraph which reports on theresa may's pledge to slash taxes and make post—brexit britain an economic powerhouse and the envy of europe. she will deliver that promise today in the us. and then we have the financial times which leads with a story on argentina's central bank chief, who has resigned after only three months in the job, triggering a five per cent slide in the peso. let's have a look at the denver post, which has a picture of bill cosby leaving court in handcuffs, after being sentenced to three to ten years behind bars in what is seen by his accusers as richly deserved and long overdue. and on the front page of the times teenage drinking has declined dramatically in europe. british teenagers were once

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