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News Title Bidisha Ghosal gets IPI award
News Contents The Week correspondent Bidisha Ghosal and Indian Express share the Award (2009) for Excellence in Journalism, presented by the Indian chapter of the International Press Institute (IPI). The award, which carries a cash prize of 100,000 Indian rupees (approximately 2,160 US$) as well as a trophy and a citation for each of the awardees, was established in 2003 to honour exceptional work done by Indian media organizations or journalists. Bidisha won the award for her for her reports on the sexual exploitation faced by the widows of farmers in Vidharbha, Maharashtra. For its sustained investigation into the Malegaon and Modasa blasts last year that exposed the hand of a fringe ultra-right organisation, The Indian Express has won the IPI India Award. The Indian Express’s Mumbai-based reporter Smita Nair on October 22, 2008, broke the story that police investigations had found Hindu militant groups behind the bomb blasts in Modasa and Malegaon. In the following months, Express reporters—Smita Nair, Chandan Haygunde, Kamal Saiyed, Manu Pubby, Milind Ghatwai, Vikram Rautela and Sagnik Chowdhur—stayed resolutely on the story, joining the dots of the terror plot. Union Minister for Human Resources Development Kapil Sibal gave away the prizes and said that journalism has a vital role to play in the progress of a nation. Sibal said that the two key entities for democracy were Free Press and Free Judiciary. Further, Sibal regretted the fact that these days several editors assign beats to journalists who lack the basic knowledge of the subject matter.
 




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