By IANS
New Delhi : IANS journalist Azera Rahman has won the Anupama Jayaraman Memorial Award for Promising Young Women Journalists for 2008. The award includes a citation and a cash prize of Rs.15,000.
The Network of Women in Media announced that Azera, 23, based in New Delhi, “has had an opportunity to write on human rights issues, particularly those concerned with children and women within a year of joining the global news service wire”.
R. Shankar, former editor of the New Indian Express (Bangalore), who headed the jury, said Azera’s stories and the topics she chose to highlight “show promise, especially the one on the plight of children in the carpet industry”.
Azera will receive the award and citation Friday at a special function in Pune to mark the annual meet of the Network of Women in Media.
The award has been set up in the memory of Anupama Jayaraman, a young and promising Bangalore-based journalist who passed away Jan 29, 2006, at age 23.
Anupama was not only multi-talented and energetic, but also demonstrated a keen interest in issues of human rights and social justice.
The award is one of several efforts undertaken by her family to keep her concerns and ideas alive. It is given to encourage and honour young women journalists who, like her, believe in meaningful journalism and have the courage and determination to write on issues relating to human rights and social justice.