By IANS,
New Delhi : Nirupama Subramanian, Islamabad correspondent of The Hindu and Vinita Deshmukh, editor of the Weekly Intelligent of Pune will share the Chameli Devi Jain Award for Outstanding Woman Mediaperson for 2008-09, The Media Foundation announced Tuesday.
The presentation will be made at the Indian International Centre here Friday.
This will be followed by a panel discussion on “Matching Television’s Growing Power with Corresponding Responsibility”.
The panellists will be Nitin Desai, a member of the National Broadcast Authority’s independent monitoring mechanism; Zohra Chatterjee, joint secretary (Broadcasting) in the information and broadcasting ministry; Uday Shankar, CEO of Star News; Phil Reeves of the US National Public Radio; and media critic Shailaja Bajpai, who will moderate.
The jury for the award comprised Nirija Gopal Jayal of the Centre for Law and Governance at the Jawaharlal Nehru University; Bhaskar Ghose, former CEO Lok Sabha TV; and Raj Chengappa, Associate Editor of India Today.