The Union of Journalists of Armenia establishes Armen Doulyan Award to encourage highly professional journalism.
The award, a certificate, a statuette, and a cash prize of at least 500,000, raised through public fundraising, will be awarded to the journalist whose publicist work (textual or audio or audiovisual) submitted to the competition is deemed the best by the competition committee.
A candidate for Armen Doulyan award can be a publicist-journalist of any age with at least ten years of professional experience.
Starting in 2026, the award ceremony will be held every year on May 26, the birthday of journalist, publicist, and radio and television commentator Armen Dulyan. The Union of Journalists of Armenia will announce the procedure for holding the competition, other conditions, including the deadlines for submitting applications, in the coming months.
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In the beginning of the 1990s, with his colleague founded the first independent Snark agency in Armenia.
Armen Dulyan worked for more than four decades in Armenian and foreign media: Sputnik Armenia, Radio Azatutyun, Public Radio of Armenia, Radio Rossii, Public Radio of Armenia, Shant, Kentron TV stations, Armenpress news agency, and published editorials in numerous Armenian print and online media. In 1992-1993, he was the press secretary of the Minister of Defense of Armenia. He died in January 2025 at the age of 71.
The Union of Journalists of Armenia
