Chameli Devi Jain Award for Outstanding Women Mediapersons

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Chameli Devi Jain Award for Outstanding Woman Mediaperson
Awarded forJournalism award in India for women
Sponsored byThe Media Foundation
First awarded1981
Last awarded2024
Highlights
Total awarded54
First winner Neerja Chowdhury
Last winnerRitika Chopra, Greeshma Kuthar

The Chameli Devi Jain Award for Outstanding Woman Mediaperson is an Indian journalism award named after Chameli Devi Jain, an Indian independence activist who became the first Jain woman to go to prison during India's independence struggle. [1] The award was instituted in 1980 by The Media Foundation and is given to women in the field of journalism. According to Business Standard , the award is "perhaps India's longest running media award for women". [2]

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The Media Foundation was founded in 1979 by B. G. Verghese, Lakshmi Chand Jain, Prabhash Joshi, Ajit Bhattacharjea and N. S. Jagannathan. The award was instituted in 1980 by Verghese and the family of Chameli Devi. [3] The criteria for selection include social concern, dedication, courage and compassion in the individual's work. Journalists in print, digital and broadcast are eligible including photographers, cartoonists and newspaper designers; the entries are judged by an independent jury. Preferences are given to rural or small-town journalists and journalists in regional Indian languages. [4]

Neerja Chowdhury won the inaugural award in 1981. In 2015, Supriya Sharma of Scroll.in became the first online journalist to receive the award. [5]

Recipients

Homai Vyarawalla (right), winner of the 1998 Chameli Devi Jain Award, receiving the Padma Vibhushan from the President of India in 2011. The President, Smt. Pratibha Devisingh Patil presenting the Padma Vibhushan Award to Smt. Homai Vyarawalla, at an Investiture Ceremony II, at Rashtrapati Bhavan, in New Delhi on April 01, 2011.jpg
Homai Vyarawalla (right), winner of the 1998 Chameli Devi Jain Award, receiving the Padma Vibhushan from the President of India in 2011.
Pushpa Girimaji, winner of the 1991 Chameli Devi Jain Award. Ram Nath Kovind presenting the Nari Shakti Puruskar for the year 2017 to Ms. Pushpa Girimaji, Gurugram, Haryana, at a function, on the occasion of the International Women's Day, at Rashtrapati Bhavan, in New Delhi (cropped).jpg
Pushpa Girimaji, winner of the 1991 Chameli Devi Jain Award.
Sucheta Dalal (right), winner of the 1992 Chameli Devi Jain Award, receiving the Padma Shri from the President of India in 2006. The President, Dr. A.P.J. Abdul Kalam presenting the Padma Shri Award - 2006 to Ms. Sucheta Dalal, a well-known business journalist, in New Delhi on March 20, 2006.jpg
Sucheta Dalal (right), winner of the 1992 Chameli Devi Jain Award, receiving the Padma Shri from the President of India in 2006.
YearRecipient(s)Associated media house(s)/notesRef.
1981 Neerja Chowdhury The Statesman
The Indian Express 		[6]
1982Prabha Dutt
Sevanti Ninan 		–
–		 [7]
1983Shahnaz Anklesaria Aiyar
Sakuntala Narasimhan 		– [8]
1984Sheela Barse– [7]
1985 Madhu Purnima Kishwar – [9]
1986 Kalpana Sharma Himmat
The Indian Express
The Times of India 		[10]
1987No winner– [11]
1988 Tavleen Singh India Today
The Indian Express		 [12]
1989 Chitra Subramaniam India Today [7]
1990Usha Rai– [13]
1991 Pushpa Girimaji
Mediastorm Collective [lower-alpha 1] 		–
–		 [14]
1992 Sucheta Dalal
Teesta Setalvad 		The Times of India
The Indian Express		 [15]
1993Sheela Bhatt
Alka Raghuvanshi
Manimala		India Today [16]
1994Shubha SinghThe Telegraph
The Pioneer
The Khaleej Times 		[17]
1995 Patricia Mukhim The Shillong Times [18]
1996Annam Suresh
Rehana Hakim		–
–		 [19]
1997 Anita Pratap CNN
Time 		[20]
1998 Homai Vyarawalla – [21]
1999 Barkha Dutt
Pamela Philipose
Vasavi Kiro		NDTV
The Times of India
Prabhat Khabar 		[22]
[23]
[24]
2000Kunjal Paanje KutchjiKutch Mahila Vikas Sangathan [25]
2001 Bano Haralu Eastern Mirror [26]
2002Shikha Trivedi– [23]
2003Sonu Jain
Chitrakoot Rural Women's Collective		The Indian Express
Khabar Lahariya 		[27]
[28]
2004 Sunita Narain Down to Earth magazine [29]
2005Ratna Bharali Talukdar– [30]
2006Nilanjana Bose
Sreerekha B		 CNN-IBN
Vanitha 		[6]
2007Rupashree NandaCNN-IBN [31]
2008Nirupama Subramanian
Vinita Deshmukh		 The Hindu [20]
2009 Monalisa Changkija
Shoma Chaudhury 		Nagaland Page
Tehelka		 [32]
2010 Shahina K. K. Open [33]
2011Tusha Mittal Tehelka [34]
2012Alka Dhupkar IBN Lokmat [35]
2013 Anubha Bhonsle CNN-News18 [36]
2014Supriya Sharma Scroll.in [37]
2015Priyanka Kakodkar
Raksha Kumar		The Times of India
–		 [38]
2016 Neha Dixit – [39]
2017 Uma Sudhir NDTV [40]
2018Priyanka DubeyBBC [41]
2019 Arfa Khanum Sherwani
Rohini Mohan 		The Wire
–		 [42]
2020Neetu SinghGoan Connection [43]
2021Aarefa JohariScroll.in [44]
2022Dhanya RajendranThe News Minute [45]
2024Ritika Chopra
Greeshma Kuthar		 The Indian Express
–		 [46]

Note that before 2024 the award made in one year was named for the previous year, thus the award made in March 2023 was the 2022 award, [47] but in 2024 the system changed and the award made in March 2024 was called the 2024 award. [48]

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