The Statesman Awards for Rural Reporting recognises journalists for ground reporting on issues affecting people in rural India and was instituted in the 1970s.
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Jyoti Yadav wins Statesman Award for Rural Reporting
By Editors Jyoti Yadav, member of the Network of Women in Media, India, was awarded the Second Prize in The Statesman Awards for Rural Reporting 2023. She won the award for two stories published in The Print. The first story, Bihar’s Dalit women at the mercy of...
Aparna Karthikeyan wins Statesman Award for Rural Reporting
By Editors Aparna Karthikeyan, a member of the Network of Women in Media, India, was awarded the First Prize in The Statesman Awards for Rural Reporting 2023. She won the award for five stories from the series, "Let Them Eat Rice" published in the People's Archive of...
Rupsa Chakraborty wins Statesman Rural Reporting Award
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...
Reporting from Bastar: Challenges for a Woman Journalist
The NWMI demands the immediate cessation of threats and intimidatory tactics from all state and non-state agents including those associated with the Communist Party of India (Maoist), that pressurise journalists and others who are vulnerable to such attempts at intimidation.