• The Indian Express Group has announced the 17th Ramnath Goenka Excellence in Journalism Awards (RNG Awards) for journalists across the country for the years 2021 and 2022.
• Union Minister for Road Transport and Highway Nitin Gadkari was the chief guest of the award ceremony.
• The 4-member jury which selected the winners in various categories included former Chief Election Commissioner SY Quraishi, former Supreme Court Judge Justice B N Srikrishna, K G Suresh and Dr C. Raj Kumar.

 

ABOUT THE AWARD:

• RNG awards are one the most prestigious awards in India in the field of journalism, held annually since 2005.
• The award is named after Ramnath Goenka, the founder of “The Indian Express” and Indian Express Group in 1932.

 

AWARD WINNERS:

S. No	Award Category	Winner of 2021	Winner of 2022
1	Print (Hindi)	Kiriti Dubey, BBC News Hindi	Anand Choudhary, India Today Magazine
2	Print (Regional)	Shabitha MK, Mathrubhumi Daily	Anand MadhusoodanSowdi, Kannada Prabha Daily
3	Environment, Scientific and Technology Reporting	Jayshree Nandi Hindustan Times	Basant Tiwary and Ayush Kumar Newslaundry
4	Uncovering Invisible India	Monica Jha Freelancer for FiftyTwo.In	Rupa Chakraborty The Indian Express
5.	Business and Economic Journalism	Aditya Kalra and Steve Stecklow Reuters News Agency	Twesh Mishra The Economic Times
6	Reporting on Politics and Government	Ritika Chopra The indian Express	Prawal Bhatt The News Minute
7	Sports Journalism	Mahender Singh Manral  and Mihir Vasavada The Indian Express	Andrew Amsan The Indian Express
8	Investigative Journalism	Devesh Kumar and Arun Godana  Lok Satta	Zoya Hassan TRT World
9	Feature Writing	Vandana Menon The Print	Raj Chengappa India Today magazine
10	Foreign Correspondent Covering India	Joannna Slater and Niha Masih The Washington Post
11	Prakash Kardaley Memorial Award for Civic Journalism	Vinod Kumar Menon Mid- Day	Azeefa  Fathima,BalakrishnanGaneshan  and Prjwal Bhatt The News Minute
12	Photojournalism	Gurinder Osan Press Trust of India	Abhinav Saha  The Indian Express
13	Books (Non-Fiction)	The Long Game Vijay Gokhale	The Life and Times of George Fernades  Rahul Ramagundam
14	Broadcast (Hindi)	Jugal Purohit  BBC Hindi News	Hriyadesh Joshi  Newslaundry
15	Broadcast (Regional Language)	Sofia Bind  Media One TV	Tejas Vaidya  BBC  News Gujarati
16.	Broadcast (Environment, Scientific and Technology Reporting)	Princess GiriRashir  East Mojo	Down to Earth Web Multimedia Team Down to Earth Web Portal
17.	Broadcast (Uncovering India Invisible)	Vishnukant Tiwari The Quint	Vikas Trivedi BBC Hindi News
18	Broadcast(Reporting on Politics and Government)	Brut India	Abhishek Bhatia Indiatoday.com
19.	Broadcast (Investigative Reporting)	Meghnad Bose The Quint	Saurabh Shukla NDTV