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  • The RedInk 'Best Media Start-up' award was previously won by Scroll.in, in 2015 and Fountain Ink of Chennai in 2014

    The Wire wins the ‘RedInk Start-up of the Year’ award

    By A Correspondent

     

    The Wire, a news and public affairs website, has been adjudged the ‘Start-up of the Year’ at the RedInk journalism awards instituted by the Press Club, Mumbai.The Red Ink Awards, in the sixth year now, have been instituted to promote best practices among journalists and encourage good quality writing, fair play and high ethical standards.

     

    MK Venu, Founding Editor of The Wire, said, “It is an honour to have won such a prestigious award. At The Wire, we believe that if good journalism is to survive and thrive, it can only do so by being both editorially and financially independent. This means relying principally on contributions from readers and concerned citizens who have no interest other than to sustain a space for quality journalism.”

     

    The Wire was launched in May, 2015 and was co-founded by MK Venu, Siddharth Varadarajan and Sidharth Bhatia. MK Venu has been an active economic and political writer and has held leadership roles in reputed newspapers such as The Economic Times, The Financial Express and The Hindu. He has written extensively on economic policy matters for over a quarter century after India opened up its economy in 1991. SiddharthVaradarajan was the Editor of The Hindu and is a recipient of the Ramnath Goenka Award for Journalist of the Year. Sidharth Bhatia was among the editors who launched DNA in 2005 and managed its editorial and opinion section.

     

  • The Journalism Awards have been instituted to promote best practices among journalists and encourage good quality writing, fair play and high ethical standards

    RedInk Awards for Excellence in Journalism announced

    By A Correspondent

     

    Mumbai Press Club has invited entries for the prestigious National RedInk Awards for Excellence in Journalism–2015. The Journalism Awards have been instituted to promote best practices among journalists and encourage good quality writing, fair play and high ethical standards.

     

    The entries must be submitted by 28th February, 2015.

     

    In the fifth year now, the RedInk Awards have been restructured and further expanded so that television journalism is now on par with the written word. A new category has been introduced to honour ‘The Journalist of the Year’.

     

    Entries in the form of articles or stories published in the print & digital medium and television stories broadcast during calendar year 2014 and impactful photograph of the year published in the print or digital medium are invited from Indian Journalists in the following categories: Business, Crime, Environment, Health and Wellness, Human Rights, Lifestyle & Entertainment, Politics, Science & Innovation, Sports, The Big Picture.

     

    Special RedInk Awards have also been instituted for the following categories:

    - ‘The Journalist of the Year’ Award will be for a body of work in calendar 2014 that contributed to creating a lasting impact. (This category is open to stories published in any journalistic medium – print, digital or TV.

     

    - ‘Lifetime Achievement Award’ for a senior journalist who has contributed substantially over several decades to the growth and strengthening of the profession.

     

    The selection will be made by a special jury from amongst a shortlist drawn up by the Managing Committee of the Mumbai Press Club. Responses from journalists will also be taken into consideration. The winning entry in category 11 and 12 will be awarded a cash prize of Rs. 1 Lakh, a trophy and a citation.

     

    Click to download the entry form