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Published : 16 Nov 2025, 11:05 PM
Abu Saleh Rony, senior reporter at Samakal, has secured the Nagad–DRU (Dhaka Reporters Unity) Best Reporting Award 2025.
He earned the accolade in the category covering political, administrative, judiciary and Election Commission reporting, winning for his five-part investigative series titled Crisis in the Judiciary, a statement read on Sunday.
The series was published between Oct 17 and 21 last year.
The award was handed to him at a ceremony held on Sunday at the International Mother Language Institute in Segunbagicha.
With this latest recognition, Rony has set a landmark in Bangladeshi journalism -- becoming the only journalist to have won the DRU Best Reporting Award 12 times.
Finance Advisor Salehuddin Ahmed attended the event as the chief guest and presented the awards. Kaiser A Chowdhury, chairman of the Managing Board–BPO–Nagad, was present as a special guest.
The event was presided over by DRU President Abu Saleh Akon, while Jury Board Chair and Financial Express Editor Shamsul Huq Zahid also joined the ceremony. DRU General Secretary Mainul Hasan Sohel delivered the welcome remarks.
This year, a total of 27 journalists were recognised across 24 categories, including six who shared awards in three categories. Each recipient received a crest, a certificate, and a cheque of Tk 50,000.
Rony’s award-winning series explored entrenched challenges within the judiciary, including allegations of government interference, corruption and irregularities, a chronic backlog of cases, complications surrounding budget formulation, and constraints in project implementation.
Supported by expert analysis, the reports examined the structural and administrative weaknesses contributing to the longstanding crisis.
Over his journalism career spanning more than a decade and a half, Rony has twice received the Bazlur Rahman Memorial Award for his reporting on the Liberation War.
He has also earned the Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC) Award for investigative work on corruption, along with numerous accolades for reporting on law and justice, women and children, culture and other sectors.
