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Tora Agarwala, member of the Network of Women in Media, India, and independent journalist, was awarded the International Press Institute India Award for Excellence in Journalism 2024 (Special Appreciation by Jury) earlier this year. She was awarded for her reportage of the ethnic conflict in Manipur in Scroll.
Neha Dixit, member of the Network of Women in Media, India, was awarded the 2025 Ramnath Goenka Sahithya Samman in the Best Debut category for her book, The Many Lives of Syeda X: The Story of an Unknown Indian. The citation noted the book is a work of grave moral attention and disciplined reportage.
Renu Ramanath, member of the Network of Women in Media, India, has won the 2025 Kerala Lalithakala Akademi Vijayakumar Menon Memorial Award.
By Editors The Network of Women in Media, India, (NWMI), was conferred the Laadli Gender Champion Award by Population First. NWMI was recognised for promoting gender sensitivity in media and fostering solidarity among women journalists. This award was instituted in...
NWMI member and independent journalist Makepeace Sitlhou's documentary film, A Wall Runs Through It, has won the 2023 Rocky Mountain Student Production Award in the College Non-Fiction -Short Form category. In the category COLLEGE NON-FICTION - SHORT FORM the...
Meena Kotwal, NWMI member and Founder and Editor-in-Chief of The Mooknayak was awarded the 'Diversity Woman of the Year' by the Bahujan Diversity Mission (BDM) and The Samvidhan Bachao Sangharsh Samiti in August this year. The Mooknayak, an independent news outlet,...
By Editors NWMI member Rupsa Chakraborty received first prize at the Statesman Rural Reporting Awards, 2022, for her reports on the conditions of adivasis in Nandurbar district in Maharashtra, displaced by the Sardar Sarovar Dam project. In her four-part series...
By Editors It’s time again to congratulate one of our own! We’re very proud to announce that our member Poornima R has been awarded the Karnataka Lekhakiyara Sangha award for Excellence in Writing in Kannada this year. Poornima, the debut awardee for this honour...
NWMI congratulates its members Safina Nabi and Vaishnavi Chandrashekhar for winning the prestigious Fetisov Journalism Awards. The winner of the awards are outstanding journalists from all over the world who change the world for the better with groundbreaking stories...
By Editors NWMI member and Tennis Editor of The Times of India, Prajwal Hegde, was awarded the Ron Bookman Media Excellence Award in the 2021 ATP Awards. Hegde has been with The Times of India since 2005, and has also worked with Mid-Day in Mumbai and Deccan Herald in...
By Vasanthi Hariprakash The first time I saw Neetu Singh, I almost didn't see her. It must have been 2016; she was sitting in a corner at the office of Gaon Connection, the rural media platform that is based in Lucknow, Uttar Pradesh. I had been invited to come from...