Madhavrao Sapre Museum of Newspapers and Research Institute announced its State level journalism awards on Thursday. The Museum would felicitate senior and young working journalists of the State for excellent work. This would be the twentieth edition of Museum’s State level journalism awards.
This year a total of 18 journalists would be awarded by the Museum with shawl, shrifal and citation.
Director of the Museum Mangla Anuja informed that the three member panel comprising of Shivkumar Awasthi, Shiv Anurag Pateriya and Rakesh Dixit has made the recommendations for the awards.
Santosh Kumar Shukla Public Communication Award would go to Additional Director Public Relations Department – Suresh Gupta, Makkhanlal Chaturvedi Award would go to editor of Patrika – Alok Mishra and lal Baldev Singh Award would go to editor of Haribhumi Himanshu Trivedi.
Jagdish Prasad Chaturvedi Awrad would go to Dainik Bhaskar Special Correspondent Anil Gupta, Rameshwar Guru Award to Nav Duniya Special Correspondent Rajiv Soni, Jhabarmal Sharma Award to Channel Head of Bansal News Sharad Diwedi and KP Narayan award to Hindustan Times Special Correspondent Rahul Naronha for the year 2015 and to Bureau Head of Statesman Gaurav Chandra for the year 2016.