Award Winners

Predsident Pratibha Patil with the awardees at the Ramnath Goenka Excellence in Journalism Awards in New Delhi.
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Ramnath Goenka Excellence in Journalism Awards 2008-2009

Journalist of the Year (Print): Siddharth Varadarajan, The Hindu

Journalist of the Year (Broadcast): Arnab Goswami, Times Now

Journalism of Courage: Vijay Pratap Singh (Posthumously)

Reporting from J&K & Northeast (Print): Teresa Rehman, Tehelka

Reporting from J&K & Northeast (Broadcast): Arijit Sen, CNN-IBN

Journalism Awards for Hindi (Print): Geetashree, Outlook

Journalism Awards for Hindi (Broadcast): Abhisar Sharma, Aaj Tak

Regional Languages (Print): Abhijit Vasant Ghorpade, Loksatta

Regional Languages (Broadcast): Chunduri Venkata Satyanarayana, TV-9

Environmental Reporting (Print): Varghese C. Thomas, Malayala Manorama

Environmental Reporting (Broadcast): Amey Vitthaldas Tirodkar, IBN Lokmat

Uncovering India Invisible (Print): Jiji Paul, Malayala Manorama

Uncovering India Invisible (Broadcast): Kamal Khan, NDTV India

Business and Economic Journalism (Print): Puja Mehra, Business Today

Business and Economic Journalism (Broadcast): Shweta Rajpal Kohli, NDTV

Sports Journalism (Print): Mini Kapoor, The Indian Express

Sports Journalism (Broadcast): Debayan Sen & Dhruv Varshney, ZEE Sports

Film and Television Journalism (Print): Harneet Singh, The Indian Express

Film and Television Journalism (Broadcast): Suresh Mathew & Rohit Khanna, CNN-IBN

On-the-spot- Reporting (Print): The Hindustan Times Team, Mumbai

On-the-spot-Reporting(Broadcast): Shamsher Singh, Headlines Today

Investigative Reporting (Print): Shyamlal Yadav, India Today

Investigative Reporting(Broadcast): Rajesaheb Nadaf, TV-9

Foreign Correspondent Covering India (Print): Joseph Leahy, Financial Times

Commentary and Interpretative writing (Print): Saubhik Chakrabarti, The Indian Express

Civic Journalism (Print): Mahesh Gupthan, Malayala Manorama

Journalism Awards for Non- Fiction (Books): Harish Damodaran, India’s New Capitalists: Caste, Business and Industry in a Modern Nation

Political Reporting (Print): Aditi Phadnis & Pranab Dhal Samanta, Business Standard & The Indian Express

Political reporting (Broadcast): Ajit Anjum, News 24

Sanjiv Sinha Memorial award for reporting: Madhuparna Das, The Indian Express

Priya Chandrasekhar Memorial award for editing: Amanpreet Singh, The Indian Express