S. Vijay Kumar, Senior Deputy Editor with The Hindu in Chennai was on Friday presented the Ramnath Goenka Excellence in Journalism Award for Investigative Reporting (Print category).
Instituted by the Ramnath Goenka Memorial Foundation, the award was presented by Union Home Minister Rajnath Singh at a ceremony in New Delhi.
The award for Investigative Reporting in the broadcast category was won by Anand Kumar Patel of India Today TV.
The awards for Political Reporting went to Brajesh Rajput of ABP News Network and Sushant Kumar Singh of the Indian Express.
M. Gunasekaran with News18 Tamil Nadu (broadcast)and Nishant Dattaram Sarwankar and Sandeep Ashok Acharya both with Loksatta (print), bagged the awards in the Regional Languages category.
The award in the Environmental Reporting category were presented to Sushil Chandra Bahuguna of NDTV and Sandhya Ravishankar of the online magazine The Wire.
Awards were presented to 29 journalists across India in various categories.