Star Awards for Best News Presenter

Annual award since 1994 in Singapore

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Star Awards for
Best News Presenter
最佳新闻主播

Awarded for| Best Performance by a Mediacorp Presenter in a News Programme
Country| Singapore
Presented by| Mediacorp
First award| 2010
Final award| 2013
Currently held by| Vacant

The Best News Presenter is an award presented annually at the Star Awards, a ceremony that was established in 1994.

The category was introduced in 2010, at the 16th Star Awards ceremony. It was introduced as a result of the discontinuation of the Best News/Current Affairs Presenter award to create distinctions news and current affairs presenters.

The award is given in honour of a Mediacorp presenter who has delivered an outstanding performance in a news programme. The nominees are determined by a team of judges employed by Mediacorp; winners are selected by a majority vote from the entire judging panel.

Since its inception, the award has been given to four presenters. Zhao Wenbei is the inaugural and most recent winner in this category, and also the only presenter to win in this category twice since the ceremony held in 2013. In addition, Lin Chi Yuan, Tung Soo Hua, Zhang Haijie, and Zhao have been nominated on four occasions, more than any other presenter. Wang Zheng holds the record for the most nominations without a win, with two.

The award is currently being suspended and has not been presented since 2014 due to the lack of eligible nominees, as well as widespread public controversy over the credibility of the judging process in view of various unconvincing wins which saw Tung Soo Hua taking home the award over consecutive years.

## Recipients

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Year  | Presenter  | Nominees

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2010 | Zhao Wenbei 赵文蓓  |

* Lin Chi Yuan 林启元
* Ng Siew Leng 黄秀玲
* Tung Soo Hua 董素华
* Zhang Haijie 张海洁

2011 | Lin Chi Yuan 林启元  |

* Tung Soo Hua 董素华
* Wang Zheng 王征
* Zhang Haijie 张海洁
* Zhao Wenbei 赵文蓓

2012 | Tung Soo Hua 董素华  |

* Lin Chi Yuan 林启元
* Wang Zheng 王征
* Zhao Wenbei 赵文蓓

Zhang Haijie 张海洁
2013 | Zhao Wenbei 赵文蓓  |

* Lin Chi Yuan 林启元
* Tung Soo Hua 董素华
* Zhang Haijie 张海洁
* Zhao Quanyin 赵全胤

^[I] Each year is linked to the article about the Star Awards held that year.

## Category facts

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Most wins
Rank  | 1st

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Presenter  | Zhao Wenbei
Total wins  | 2 wins

Most nominations
Rank  | 1st  | 2nd

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Presenter  | Lin Chi Yuan
Tung Soo Hua
Zhang Haijie
Zhao Wenbei | Wang Zheng
Total nominations  | 4 nominations  | 2 nominations

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Ceremonies‡|

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‡Dates and years listed for each ceremony were the eligibility period of television in Singapore. For the first 14 ceremonies, the ceremony was held at the end of the year (usually December). Since the 15th ceremony held in 2009, the ceremony was held on April and the period of eligibility became the full previous calendar year, hence no ceremony was held in 2008 due to a format change. No ceremony was held on 2020 due to the COVID-19 pandemic while nominations for the 2019 calendar year were rolled over to the next ceremony.
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