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Network18 & NDTV channels bag 5 awards each at Ramnath Goenka Awards
Indian Express leads in Print at the fifth edition of awards recognising outstanding work done in 2009
BestMediaInfo Bureau | Delhi | January 17, 2012
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The Express Group celebrated excellence in contemporary Indian journalism at a glittering function Monday evening, by honouring 36 of the country's best journalists at the fifth Ramnath Goenka Awards for Excellence in Journalism.
The awards, instituted by the Express Group, recognised outstanding work done in 2009 and was given away by Vice President Hamid Ansari at the Taj Palace Hotel, New Delhi.
Stories awarded highlighted a range of issues, from Naxalism to economic slowdown, dying rivers to devastating floods, addressing contemporary India and its myriad challenges. As jury member and former Indian ambassador to the US, Naresh Chandra has said: “The entries included a broad range of subjects and the stories addressed a wide range of concerns.”
The awards were instituted by the Express Group in 2006 to acknowledge and celebrate stories that needed to be told while adhering to the highest standards of ethics.
Besides Chandra, the 10-member jury included N R Narayana Murthy, mentor and founder, Infosys; Dr M S Swaminathan, agricultural scientist and Rajya Sabha MP; Shobhana Bhartia, vice-chairperson and editorial director, HT Media Limited; Bakul Dholakia, former IIM-A director; Rama Bijapurkar, leading management consultant; Shyam Benegal, filmmaker; Deepak Parekh, HDFC chairman; legal luminary Fali S Nariman and Keshub Mahindra, chairman, Mahindra & Mahindra.
List of winners of 'The Ramnath Goenka Awards for Excellence in Jounalism 2012':
| Award Categories | Winners | Publication/Channel |
Broadcast | ||
| Uncovering India Invisible | Shikha Trivedy | NDTV |
| Hindi | Hridayesh Joshi | NDTV India |
| Film & Television Journalism | Archana Sharma | Lok Sabha |
| Regional Languages | Prakash Noolvi | TV9 |
| Sports Journalism | Anjali Doshi | NDTV |
| Reporting from J&K & the North East | Arijit Sen | CNN IBN |
| Environmental Reporting | Arti Dattatray Kulkarni | IBN Lokmat |
| Business & Economic Journalism | Shaili Chopra | ET Now |
| Investigative Reporting | Rajat Kain | NDTV India |
| On-the-spot Reporting | Preeti Singh | CNN IBN |
| Reporting on Politics and Government | Anubha Bhonsle | CNN IBN |
| Maya Mirchandani | NDTV | |
| Ramnath Goenka Journalist of the Year | Udayan Mukherjee | CNBC TV 18 |
| Prakash Kardaley Memorial Award for Civic Journalism | Tripti Lahiri | Tehelka |
| Uncovering India Invisible | Maitreyee Handique | Mint |
| Hindi | Anshuman Tiwari | Dainik Jagran |
| Film & Television Journalism | Shubhra Gupta | The Indian Express |
| Sonal Kalra | HT City | |
| Books (non-fiction) | The Hindus-An Alternative story Wendy Doniger | Penguin |
| Regional Languages | V.P. Regeena | Madhyamam Daily |
| Sports Journalism | G.S. Vivek | The Indian Express |
| Reporting from J&K & the North East | Teresa Rehman | Tehelka |
| Environmental Reporting | Rahul Chandrawarkar | DNA |
| Samanth Subramanian | Mint | |
| Business & Economic Journalism | Puja Mehra and Saumya Bhattacharya | Business Today |
| Foreign Correspondent Covering India | Anuj Chopra | The National Newspaper |
| James Astill | The Economist | |
| Investigative Reporting | Y.P. Rajesh | The Indian Express Team |
| On-the-spot Reporting | Muzamil Jaleel | The Indian Express |
| Commentary & Interpretative writing | R. Sukumar | Mint |
| Reporting on Politics and Government | Maneesh Chibber | The Indian Express |
| Sujith Nair | Malayala Manorama | |
| Priya Chandrasekhar Memorial Award for Excellence in Editing | Raghav Ohri | The Indian Express |
| Sanjiv Sinha Memorial Award for Excellence in Editing | Daksh Panwar | The Indian Express |
| Ramnath Goenka Journalist of the Year | J Gopikrishnan | The Pioneer |