Freelance journalists Parth M N and Jeff Joseph Paul have won the Prem Bhatia Award for excellence in political and environment journalism, respectively.
Parth was awarded for his work on hate crimes and marginalised communities. Paul was honoured for his investigation on cardamom cultivation in Kerala and how the country is failing to regulate pesticide overuse and contamination in its spice trade. The jury accorded a special mention to The Quint’s Fatima Khan for her video reports on communal incidents.
