By TCN News,
Thiruvananthapuram: KK Shahina, Thiruvananthapuram correspondent of the ‘Open’ magazine, has been selected for the Chameli Devi Jain Award 2010 for outstanding woman mediaperson. The Award, instituted by the Media Foundation, will be presented on March 15.
Shahina was selected for the award by a jury comprising of Jai Chandiram (broadcast personality), Bhaskar Ghosh (former Director General of the Doordarshan and Secretary of the Ministry of Information and Broadcasting) and Dipankar Gupta (senior fellow at the Nehru Memorial Museum and Library).
K.K. Shahina
Shahina was formerly writing for the ‘Tehelka’ magazine. She was recently in news in connection with a case charged against her in Karnataka. The Karnataka police charged her with intimidating the witnesses in the 2008 Bengaluru blast case in November 2010. She had interviewed the witnesses and published a report in ‘Tehelka’ which questioned the claims of the police. Shahina has submitted an anticipatory bail plea at the Karnataka High Court, after her plea was rejected by a lower court.