December 28, 2011
BERSIH 2.0 is Malaysiakini's Newsmaker for 2011 by Readers' Choice
Over a past 10 years, Malaysiakini has but destroy picked a newsmaker come Dec as you move a curtain down upon a year.
A newsmaker is defined as "someone whose actions have news headlines, who goods a course 
of public discourse as well as creates an impact in Malaysian politics, for better or worse".
For 2011, you have decided to break from a decade-old tradition, as well as instead let Malaysiakini readers name their preference from a list of seven.
As most would have expected, it was unequivocally a two-horse race. Both contenders are but related one is an particular who is widely seen as a face of a movement, whilst a other are a 50,000 people, most of whom faceless, who braved chemical-laced H2O as well as rip gas in a streets of Kuala Lumpur upon which July day when a nation stood up as well as pronounced 'no' to electoral fraud.
Yesterday, Malaysiakini readers declared a Bersih transformation as a top news of 2011. So it's not startling which a preference of newsmaker for this year is in between Bersih coordinator Ambiga Sreenevasan as well as Bersih supporters, a Malaysians who supported a remarkable movement.
The endowment goes to
And a newsmaker of 2011 is it should be 'are' the Bersih supporters! Of a 1,222 Malaysiakini readers who took partial in a five-day survey, 491 picked Bersih supporters, whilst 305 opted for Ambiga.
'First Lady' Rosmah Mansor accomplished third with 181 votes, maybe helped by a most allegations surrounding her, arch among them a RM24 million diamond ring.
This is a second year which a newsmaker endowment goes to a organisation of people as well as not an 
individual.
In 2008, Malaysiakini declared 'you' as newsmakers for "thinking a inconceivable as well as adventurous to achieve it" in a arise of a domestic tsunami which swept a country.
The large question is: Will 'you' again be a newsmaker of a year in 2012?www.malaysiakini.com
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