NDTV & The Week's Journalists jointly honoured with International Press Institute India award

The International Press Institute (IPI) India Award for Excellence in Journalism 2021 has been awarded jointly to Sreenivasan Jain and Mariyam Alavi of NDTV, and Lakshmi Subramanian and Bhanu Praksh Chandra of The Week.
Meanwhile the IPI India Award for Excellence in Journalism 2020 had been awarded to Ritika Chopra of The Indian Express.
The awardees for 2020 and 2021 will be felicitated in New Delhi in December 2021 or January 2022.
The award comes with cash prize of Rs 1 Lakh, a trophy and a citation.
The Vienna-based International Press Institute (IPI) is a global organisation dedicated to the promotion and protection of press freedom and the improvement of journalism practices.

About the award winners

NDTV’s Sreenivasan Jain and Mariyam Alavi have been awarded for their report on “untruthfulness of the cases of forcible conversion registered against young men belonging to the Muslim community who had married Hindu women in Uttar Pradesh, in the name of love Jihad.
The Week’s Subramanian and Praksh Chandra have been honoured their report on tracing Indians, especially women, who were trapped in refugee camps in the civil war-torn regions of Syria and Iraq.
Ritika Chopra of The Indian Express has been awarded for her exclusive reports on the internal fissures in the Election Commission of India on complaints on Model Code of Conduct violation against VVIPs.