Express journalists among 51 honoured at Laadli Media Awards

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At the event, Nirupama Bargohain was awarded the Laadli Lifetime Achievement Award for her contribution as a writer and journalist to Assamese literature. Three Assamese print journalists were awarded for their work. While four print journalists from Odisha were awarded for their work highlighting gender issues.

The awards also saw two news websites — Youth ki awaaz and Two circles.net — winning the award for best feature and e-magazine category respectively. Amrita Nandy, a columnist with The Indian Express won the award for best OP-ED — Ticking Outside the Box.

Syed Mubin Zehra, from Jansatta, was awarded for his article — Bahadur Banaam Mardani under the Hindi Print article category. In the English print category, Poulomi Banerjee from the Hindustan Times was awarded for best feature for her story — Women at the Wheel. Aayush Goel from The Week was awarded for his investigative story — ‘A thousand sordid deceptions’.

Six journalists from the electronic medium were also awarded during the event, including Shalu Yadav from BBC under the best feature category.