Consecutively for the third time, freelance journalist Rakhi Ghosh has received the laadli Media Award 2015 for reporting on gender issues in the English category at a ceremony in Vishakhapatnam on Tuesday.
Ghosh received the award for “Consistent reporting on gender issues” for the year 2014. She had also been felicitated with the award in 2012 and 2013. While in 2012 she was honoured for topical show on gender issues in television media, the following year she was felicitated for investigating reporting on the same issue in the vernacular media.
Including Ghosh, eight journalists from Odisha received the award. The other seven were Bhairab Brahma, Itishree Nayak, NA Shah Ansari, Dillip Subudhi , Kasturi Ray, Minati Singha, Hemanta Kumar Pradhan, from the State received the award.
“laadli’ is a campaign launched by Population First in 2005 to address mindsets that discriminate against women, promote inequalities and justify gender-based violence.