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IPI-India award for Outlook magazine

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NEW DELHI: The weekly magazine Outlook has been awarded the International Press Institute (IPI)-India Award for Excellence in Journalism, 2007, for its investigative journalism during 2006.

According to a release issued by the IPI-India Chapter, the work done by Outlook to expose the leak of sensitive information from the Navy’s War Room, and the bungling in the purchase of submarines for the Navy was chosen as the “best example of furtherance of public interest by a media organisation.”

The jury also took note of the fact that the magazine had continuously investigated these two subjects of high public importance; resulting in a criminal investigation. “The magazine’s reporters had diligently investigated and followed the two developments to their logical conclusion,” the jury observed.

Headed by the former Chairman of the National Human Rights Commission, Justice A. S. Anand, the jury comprised the IPI-India chairman and Editor of The Hindu, N. Ravi, Managing Editor of Malayala Manorama Philip Mathew, Editor-in-Chief of the Press Trust of India, M. K. Razdan, and Editor-in-Chief of Business Standard T. N. Ninan.

The award, which will be presented this month, comprises a cash component of Rs.2 lakhs, a trophy and a citation.

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