New Delhi: The Caravan’s Jatinder Kaur Tur was awarded the Chameli Devi Jain Award for Outstanding Woman Media Person of the Year at the Media Foundation Awards held on Friday (March 21).
This year’s ceremony also marked the introduction of two new journalism awards, the Kamla Mankekar Award for Journalism on Gender and the Vishwa Nath Delhi Press Award for Fearless Journalism.
Priyanka Tupe from BehanBox won the Kamla Mankekar Award, while Rokibuz Zaman of Scroll received the Vishwa Nath Delhi Press Award.
Divya Arya from BBC Hindi was given an honourable mention for her video series, ‘Hum Bharat ke Musalman’ and ‘Hindu Dharam: Mera Marm’.
In his speech at the 11th B.G. Verghese Memorial Lecture, Justice S. Muralidhar (retd) addressed the challenges faced by the Indian press, highlighting the routine nature of internet shutdowns and India’s decline to 159th place in the World Press Freedom Index.
