Lin Hui from MediaCorp’s Chinese radio news team was picked as the ‘Young Journalist of the Year’ at the Singapore company’s News Awards on Wednesday.

The awards, which celebrate journalistic works across multiple news platforms on television, radio, print and online are now in their eighth year.

This is the second consecutive year that Lin Hui, a Senior Broadcast Journalist, has been recognised.

Last year she won the prize for ‘Feature Story of the Year’.

The theme for this year’s awards was ‘Tweet, Post, Share’, reflecting the digital age of journalism.

Even before the awards ceremony, nominees and guests were encouraged to tweet and send instagram photos.

A distinguished panel of local judges selected the winning entries from April 1 2013 to March 31 2014.

Walter Fernandez, MediaCorp Editor-in-Chief said: “In a year of huge news stories, MediaCorp news teams consistently demonstrated their commitment to reporting events as they unfolded and providing perspectives that gave our viewers, listeners and readers a fuller appreciation of events.”

Judge President Pericles Lewis, Founding President and Professor of Humanities of Yale-NUS College commented: “The submissions had a great range from local stories to international stories with in-depth reporting. I thought that was very impressive.”