New Delhi: Two ThePrint journalists Jyoti Yadav and Unnati Sharma have won an award and jury citation respectively at the 12th edition of the Laadli Media Awards, supported by the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA), for their reports in the category of Gender Sensitivity (Regional) 2021-2022.
The awards were formally announced at an event in Hyderabad on 2 November (Wednesday).
Yadav won her third consecutive Laadli this year for her report — ‘She was 8 months pregnant, was ‘forced’ into UP poll duty that killed ‘135 teachers’. She won the award under the web investigative story category.
Sharma received the ‘Jury Appreciation Citation’ for her report on a national-level Kho Kho player, who was strangled by her stalker in Uttar Pradesh, in the English web news report category.
This is the third year in a row that journalists of ThePrint have been chosen for this award.
Last year, ThePrint journalists Yadav and Heena Fatima received the Laadli Media Awards for their reports. Yadav had won the award for her story — ‘Locker room boys to IT cell men: India’s rape culture grows with shame or consequences‘. She had also received two ‘Jury Appreciation Citations’ for her stories ‘Kaise ek mahila adhikari ne ek saal se toilet mein band 38 varshiya Ramrati ko kiya rescue (How a female officer saved 38-year-old Ramrati, who was locked up in a toilet for over a year’ and ‘Gramin bharat: Ghungat ke bheetar se kaisi dikhti hai digital duniya (How the digital world looks from inside a veil)’.
Heena had won the award for her report ‘Mahila Virodhi Hain Online Shiksha (Online Education is Anti-Woman)’ published by Feminism In India — a digital media organisation.
In 2020, Fatima Khan, who was with ThePrint at the time, had won the Laadli award for her coverage of the alleged rape and murder of a 23-year-old woman, who was burnt alive in Uttar Pradesh’s Unnao district in December 2019, under the category of web news report.
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