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Mint’s Ashwaq Masoodi only Indian in Nieman fellowship list for 2020

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JAMMU & KASHMIR :

  • The fellows participate in Nieman seminars, workshops, master classes and conduct research with Harvard scholars, among others
  • The prestigious Nieman fellowship entails attending two semesters at Harvard University, starting September 2019

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Ashwaq Masoodi, national writer at Mint, has been awarded the Nieman Fellowship at Harvard University. In a press release issued on 3 May, the Nieman Foundation for Journalism announced that Ashwaq will join 26 other Nieman Fellows for the class of 2020. Ashwaq is the only Indian in this list

The prestigious Nieman fellowship entails attending two semesters at Harvard University, starting September 2019.

  • The fellows participate in Nieman seminars, workshops, master classes and conduct research with Harvard scholars, among others.The release also said that, at Harvard, Ashwaq would explore ways to battle stereotypes and improve media reporting on Muslims, the largest religious minority in India
  • The Nieman Foundation for Journalism has educated more than 1,600 accomplished journalists from 98 countries since 1938. The selected journalists are from a dozen countries, including Australia, Lebanon, Niger, Turkey, China, Russia, Zimbabwe, Hungary, besides from nine different US states and Washington D.C.
  • Ashwaq has been working in Mint since August 2013 and specializes in long stories on the lives of the marginalized communities, gender and society.

Read her stories in Mint here

source: http://www.livemint.com / Live Mint / Home> Explore / by Staff Writer / May 04th, 2019

Mint wins three Ramnath Goenka awards

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JAMMU & KASHMIR / NEW DELHI :

Ashwaq Masoodi, Pramit Bhattacharya and Shamik Bag were winners of the top journalistic awards in their respective categories

(From left) Shamik Bag (Feature Writing category), Pramit Bhattacharya (Commentary and Interpretative Writing) and Ashwaq Masoodi (Uncovering India Invisible). Photo: Mint
(From left) Shamik Bag (Feature Writing category), Pramit Bhattacharya (Commentary and Interpretative Writing) and Ashwaq Masoodi (Uncovering India Invisible). Photo: Mint

Mint’s journalists won three prizes at the Ramnath Goenka Awards, India’s top journalistic award.

Ashwaq Masoodi won the award for the category ‘Uncovering India Invisible’ for her aspirations series, narrating the stories of young men and women who, like millions of their peers in the country, are striving to make it (and make it big).

Shamik Bag won the award under the category ‘Feature Writing’ for his moving profile of mountaineer Malli Mastan Babu, who died alone on an Andes peak. And Pramit Bhattarcharya won the award under the category ‘Commentary and Interpretative Writing’ for anchoring Economics Express, which uses the lens of economics (and published research) to look at everything from communal riots to marriage to diets to climate change.

There’s more to the Mint newsroom’s brand of journalism than awards, but it hasn’t escaped my attention that these three awards reflect our mission statement—to serve as an unbiased and clear-minded chronicler of the Indian dream. —R. Sukumar.

The award-winning pieces are:

—Ashwaq Masoodi’s Aspiring India series

—Economics Express, anchored by Pramit Bhattacharya

—‘Malli Mastan Babu: India’s mountain man’ by Shamik Bag

source: http://www.livemint.com / Live Mint / Home> Consumer / November 03rd, 2016