Red Ink Awards

Last updated May 15, 2024

The Red Ink Awards, also known as the Red Ink Awards for Excellence in Indian Journalism, are a set of annual awards given by the Mumbai Press Club in India to recognize excellence in journalistic achievements as assessed by a special jury.^[1] Instituted in 2010,^[2] the award grants national recognition to journalists by a professional body.^[3]

2013

#	Category	Rank	Name	Publication	Ref.
1	Sports	Winner	Aditya Iyer	The New Indian Express	^[4]^[5]
2	Health & Environment	Joint Winner	Santosh Andhale	DNA
2	Health & Environment	Joint Winner	Vinod Kumar Menon	Mid-Day
4	Science & Innovation	Winner	Priyanka Pulla	Open
5	Picture of the Year	Winner	Raju Sinde	Mumbai Mirror
6	Entertainment & Media	Winner	Samanth Subramaniam	The Caravan
7	Politics	Joint Winner	Samanth Subramaniam	The Caravan
7	Politics	Joint Winner	Nauzer Bharucha	The Times of India
8	Business	Winner	Joe C Mathew	Businessworld
9	Crime	Winner	Priyanka Dubey	Tehelka

2014

#	Category	Rank	Name	Story Titles	Publication	Ref.
1	Business	News	Jwalit Vyas and Ranjit Shinde	Operating profits of big cos like Essar,Jaypee not enough to service debt on their books	The Economic Times	^[6]^[7]
		News	Lola Nayar	The Great Gas Heist	Outlook
		Feature	Arpit Parashar	How to keep a castle up in the air	Fountain Ink Magazine
		Feature	Mehboob Jeelani	Under The Influence: Ponty Chadha's potent mix of liquor and politics	The Caravan
2	Crime	Print	Zeeshan Shaikh	Dhule, a town divided	The New Indian Express
		Print	Vinod Kumar Menon	Bhandara Rape: Cops make headway	Mid-Day
		Feature	Arpit Parashar	Nailing the lies of Nithari	Fountain Ink Magazine
		Feature	Alia Allana	The Phantom of Opera House	Fountain Ink Magazine
3	Healh & Wellness		Vinod Kumar Menon	Barely 150 km from Mumbai, 15 children died of malnutrition in the past 2 months	Mid-Day
			Swagata Yadavar	Wombs and the Wolves	The Week
			Neha Bhatt	Dark As This City	Outlook
			Madhavi Irani	Are your fave beauty products safe?	Beauty Books
4	Human Rights & Environment		Vivekananda Nemana	The Great Escape	Yahoo!
			Urmi Bhattacharjee	Inside Kaziranga's One-Horned Dream	Yahoo!
			Govind Krishna V	Tailored for Tyranny	Fountain Ink Magazine
5	Lifestyle & Entertainment		Akshay Manwani	The Show of Shows: Producing India's greatest television show ever	The Caravan
5	Lifestyle & Entertainment		Trisha Gupta	Difficult Loves: Hope and heartbreak on the fringes of urban India	The Caravan
6	Politics	Feature	Krishn Kaushik	Inside Man: The convenient opinions of Attorney General Goolam Vahanvati	The Caravan
		Feature	Niranjan Takle	A Case of Exploding Onions	The Week
		Print	Bhavya Dore	US group that opposed Modi starts campaign against him	Hindustan Times
		Print	P R Ramesh	BJP may field Narendra Modi from Varanasi to win over UttarPradesh	The Economic Times
7	Science & Innovation		Virat Markandeya	Forbidden Symmetry: The quest for a radically new form of matter	The Caravan
			Jaimon Joseph	Why JP Singh is every Indian farmer's best friend	Yahoo!
			Srinath Perur	The origins of Indians	Fountain Ink Magazine
8	Sports	Print	Gaurav Gupta	NDA stopped match-fixing probe: Former Delhi police commissioner Neeraj Kumar	The Times of India
		Print	Amit Kamat	SAI of no relief for leading athletes	Mid-day
		Feature	Bharat Sundaresan	The one who dropped the ball: Before Sachin Tendulkar, there was Anil Gurav	The New Indian Express
		Feature	Pulasta Dhar	Running from bombs: The stunning story of Afghan footballer Zohib Amiri	Firstpost
9	The Big Picture		Narendra Bisht	Muzaffarnagar Riots	Mumbai Mirror
			Raju Shinde	Acid Attack Victim	Mumbai Mirror
			Nilesh Waikar	Leopard Attack at Aarey Milk Colony	Outlook
10	Best TV Story of the Year		Priyali Sur	Girls In Bondage	CNN-IBN
			Anubha Bhonsle	Kashmir after Afzal	CNN-IBN
			Umesh Kumawat	Water loot from Trains	ABP News

Life Time Achievement Award

Award-winners
#	Year	Name	Ref.
1	2014	Mrinal Pande	^[8]
2	2015	Prannoy Roy	^[9]
3	2016	T N Ninan	^[10]
4	2017	Vinod Dua
5	2018	Mark Tully
6	2019	Dinu Ranadive
7	2020	No Awards
8	2021	Prem Shankar Jha
9	2022	Om Gaur

Journalist Of The Year

Award-winners
#	Year	Name
1	2015	Sreenivasan Jain
2	2016	Ravish Kumar
3	2017	Raj Kamal Jha
4	2018	Faye D'Souza
5	2019	Rachna Khaira
6	2020	Danish Siddiqui
7	2021
8	2022
9	2023	Dhanya Rajendran

Sagar^[11]
Vinod Dua ^[12]
Faye D’Souza ^[13]
Mark Tully ^[14]
Raj Kamal Jha ^[15]
Ravish Kumar ^[16]
Prannoy Roy ^{[ citation needed ]}
TN Ninnan^{[ citation needed ]}
Nikita Saxena^[17]
Kabir Agarwal^[18]
Aruna Chandrasekhar^{[ citation needed ]}
TR Vivek
Rahul Kotiyal
Arfa Khanum Sherwani ^[19]
Brajesh Rajput ^[20]
Syed Shahriyar ^[21]

2020

The tenth edition of the award was presented by the Chief Justice of India N. V. Ramana in a virtual event.^[22]

Danish Siddiqui was posthumously awarded 'the Journalist of the Year' for 2020. . During the event CJI Ramana stated, "He was a man with a magical eye and was rightly regarded as one of the foremost photojournalists of this era. If a picture can tell a thousand words, his photos were novels."^[22]
Prem Shankar Jha, 83, received lifetime achievement award "for his long and distinguished career of incisive and analytical writing".^[22]

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[1] "RedInk Awards invites submission for 'Excellence in Journalism' prize". The Indian Express. 24 February 2018. Retrieved 15 July 2018.

[2] "Award for Frontline writer". Frontline. 22 June 2018. Retrieved 15 July 2018.

[3] "The Wire's Kabir Agarwal Wins RedInk Award For Story on UP's Sugarcane Farmers". The Wire. 19 May 2018. Retrieved 15 July 2018.

[4] "MUMBAI PRESS CLUB DECLARES WINNERS OF REDINK AWARDS FOR EXCELLENCE IN JOURNALISM - 2013". Mumbaipressclub.com. 26 May 2013. Archived from the original on 19 December 2022. Retrieved 19 December 2022.

[5] "Press release" (PDF). Mumbaipressclub.com. 26 May 2013. Archived (PDF) from the original on 19 December 2022. Retrieved 19 December 2022.

[6] "The Red Ink Anthology 2014" (PDF). Mumbaipressclub.com. 30 December 2013. Archived (PDF) from the original on 19 December 2022. Retrieved 19 December 2022.

[7] "MUMBAI PRESS CLUB DECLARES WINNERS OF REDINK AWARDS FOR EXCELLENCE IN JOURNALISM - 2014". Mumbaipressclub.com. 14 February 2014. Archived from the original on 19 December 2022. Retrieved 19 December 2022.

[8] "Two Express journalists bag Red Ink Awards". Indian Express Limited . 8 June 2014. Archived from the original on 19 December 2022. Retrieved 19 December 2022.

[9] "NDTV's Prannoy Roy bags RedInk award for lifetime achievement". Business Standard . 26 April 2015. Archived from the original on 19 December 2022. Retrieved 19 December 2022.

[10] "RedInk Awards for 3 reporters of The Indian Express". Indian Express Limited . 27 April 2016. Archived from the original on 19 December 2022. Retrieved 19 December 2022.

[11] "RedInk award for Sagar for Politics(Print)". The Caravan. Politics(Print). 2019-06-28. ISSN 0971-751X . Retrieved 2019-06-28.{{cite news}}: CS1 maint: others (link)

[12] "RedInk award for Vinod Dua". The Hindu. 2017-06-05. ISSN 0971-751X . Retrieved 2018-08-05.

[13] "Mirror Now executive editor Faye D'Souza receives RedInk award for 'Journalist of the Year'". The Economic Times. 2018-05-16. Retrieved 2018-08-05.

[14] "Veteran journalist Mark Tully bags RedInk Award". Deccan Herald. 2018-05-15. Retrieved 2022-06-20.

[15] "RedInk journalism awards for Vinod Dua, Raj Kamal Jha". The Indian Express. 2017-06-04. Retrieved 2018-08-05.

[16] Rathod, Pranav. "Pressclub Mumbai". MumbaiPressclub. Retrieved 2018-09-25.

[17] "Press Club Mumbai awards Red Ink Award to Prannoy Roy, others". MxMIndia. 4 May 2015. Retrieved 2018-08-05.

[18] "The Wire's Kabir Agarwal Wins RedInk Award For Story on UP's Sugarcane Farmers". The Wire. Retrieved 2018-08-05.

[19] "The Wire's Arfa Khanum Sherwani and Faiyaz Ahmad Wajeeh Win Red Ink Awards 2019". The Wire. Retrieved 21 January 2021.

[20] "Mumbai Press Club". www.mumbaipressclub.com. Retrieved 2020-03-14.

[21] Quint, The (2021-12-29). "The Quint Wins RedInk 2021 Award in Human Rights (TV) Category". TheQuint. Retrieved 2022-06-19.

[RedInk2020-22] 1 2 3 "Danish Siddiqui posthumously gets Mumbai Press Club's RedInk Award". Telegraph India. Retrieved 1 January 2022.

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