Past Awardees
2024-25
The Reporters' Collective
The Reporters’ Collective is an independent, not-for-profit investigative newsroom dedicated to producing rigorous, collaborative journalism that demands accountability from those in power. Working alongside journalists across languages and platforms, the Collective conducts in-depth investigations into India’s political economy and systems of governance. Its work consistently exposes institutional opacity, administrative malpractice, and systemic abuse of power. These investigations have sparked parliamentary debates, prompted judicial scrutiny, and catalyzed significant public policy interventions.
2023-24
Urvashi Sarkar
Urvashi Sarkar is an independent journalist based in Mumbai. A journalist for the last 15 years, she writes on international affairs, nuclear power, and climate change. She has won the 2023 SCARF media mental health awards (First Prize), 2019 ICRC-PII award for humanitarian reporting on climate change (First Prize), and the Laadli Media Award for gender sensitivity in reporting (2017). She has also been a fellow with Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists (South Asia editorial fellow, 2021-2022), the UN Reham-al-Farra Memorial Journalism Programme (2018), and the People’s Archive of Rural India (2016). She has worked with The Hindu and The Indian Express. Urvashi’s work features in a range of international and Indian publications including the BBC, Al Jazeera, The Middle East Eye, Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, The Telegraph, The Caravan, Scroll, The Wire, and many others. She is currently working on her first book.
2022-23
Greeshma Kuthar
Awarded to Greeshma Kuthar, a freelance journalist based in Chennai, for her proposal on Bangladeshi and Nepali workers and their lives and work in India.
2021-22
Arunima Tara Tenzing
The award was given to Arunima Tara Tenzing for the online magazine called Magar.
Magar began with the need to respond to the increasing media and digital propaganda that led to polarisation of views, ideologies and people.
Magar is an initiative born out of a desire to break away from news that is fed into our systems and towards news we actively wish to consume, creating a space for critical and intersectional thinking and reflection.
2020-21
Rabha kumar
media control and freedom
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2018-19
Pari
Faces of India
2017-18
Anchal Vohra
An Investigation in to the Living and working condition of workers from India in Qatar and Saudi Arabia
2016-17
Neha Dixit
“ Half Citizens “ a record of the lives of women in the unorganized sector in India
2015-16
Aman Sethi
2014-15
Vidura Jang Bahadur
Chinese in India
2013-14
Rupa Chinai
Understanding the North east – A reporters Journal
2011-12
Srinivasan Ramani
Emergence of Nepal as a democracy – India’s role in the process
2010-11
Patttabi Raman
Photo journal Souls of the Homeland – Tamils after 30 years of war
2009-10
Puroshottam Singh Thakur
People price- rise, pensions and poverty in KBK region
2008-09
N.P. Jayan
The Silent Crusade- Chronicling of the life in the Silent Valley National Park
1997-98
Delhi Journalist Union
Setting up the media centre for Research and Publications
1996-97
Ash Narain Roy
Dr. Ash Narain Roy is a PhD in Latin American Studies from Jawaharlal Nehru University, Delhi. He spent more than four years at El Colegio de Mexico, Mexico City, as Visiting Scholar in the early 1980s. He worked with Hindustan Times as Assistant Editor from 1990 to 2001. In 1997, Roy was sent by the UN to Cairo and Amman as member of the Fact Finding News Mission on the question of Palestine. He has published several papers in national and international journals and presented several papers in international seminars and conferences on democracy, local government, federalism, globalisation and Indian foreign policy. He was a member of the international team to observe the Sri Lankan parliamentary elections in August 2015. Roy is a member of the Advisory Board of several universities and think tanks. He has authored/edited several books including Development, Decentralisation and Democracy published in 2015 by Orient BlackSwan. He is currently a Director at The Institute of Social Sciences, New Delhi.