The Prem Bhatia awards for outstanding journalism for the year 2020 have gone to Dipankar Ghose of the Indian Express and non-profit journalism website People’s Archive of Rural India (PARI) for their coverage of COVID-19 and its impact across the country.
Daily Current Affairs Quiz 2020
Key-Points
The Prem Bhatia Memorial Trust confers the awards for outstanding journalism.
The trust had instituted the awards in 1995 in the memory of journalist Prem Bhatia, who died that year.
The main objective of the Trust is to propagate the values of objective reporting, fearless pursuit of the truth and a commitment to improving the standards of journalism in India.
Outstanding Political Reporting of The Year: An annual award of INR 2,00,000/- is given to an outstanding journalist who has reported the major political events of the year with objectivity.
Outstanding Environmental Reporting of The Year: An annual award of INR.1,50,000/- is awarded for the journalist who has shown most promise in reporting on environmental, developmental or social affairs.
