Chameli Devi Jain awards announced in Capital

Changkija’s daughter Tasungtetla E Longkumer received the award on behalf of her mother.

Changkija is the first woman founder editor of a daily newspaper from the Northeast.

This year’s jury consisted of columnist and author Madhu Jain,former Doordarshan Director-General Bhaskar Ghose and Senior Fellow at the Nehru Memorial Museum and Library Dipankar Gupta.

On the sidelines of the awards function,a four-member panel discussed ‘The Influence of Public Relations on Journalism’.

The panellists included Vinod Mehta,Editor-in-Chief of Outlook magazine; Dilip Cherian,image guru,co-founder and consulting partner of Perfect Relations,an image management firm; Pankaj Pachauri,managing editor,NDTV and Ashu Khanna.

The award is given annually by The Media Foundation for excellence,impact,social concern,innovation,style and originality of work in the print or broadcast medium.

The Media Foundation was instituted by the family of Chameli Devi Jain.