New Delhi: Weekly magazines `Tehelka` and `The Week` have been jointly awarded the International Press Institute (IPI)-India award for excellence in journalism for 2011.
`Tehelka` was selected for its report on "rent a riot" tactics of the Sree Rama Sene in Karnataka, which exposed that the outfit takes money to organise attacks on innocent persons and institutions, the India Chapter of IPI said in a press release. `The Week` was selected for its sustained investigative reporting on sham medical and dental colleges which had no doctors, no patients and no facilities and yet were permitted to award medical and dental degrees to thousands of students, it said.
The decision was made by a distinguished jury of editors and publishers headed by former CJI Justice A S Anand.
The members of the jury included IPI-India Chairman and `The Hindu` Editor N Ravi, PTI Editor-in-Chief M K Razdan, `Business Standard` Chairman and Chief Editor T N Ninan and `Malyala Manorama` Senior Assistant Editor Riyad Mathew. The award - comprising a cash prize of Rs 1 lakh, a trophy and a citation to the winner - will be presented here in December.
The IPI is an active forum of editors, publishers and senior executives of newspapers, magazines and news agencies committed to promotion of free exchange of accurate and balanced news among nations.
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