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  • NDTV wins Commonwealth innovative engineering award for record 5th time

    NEW DELHI: NDTV Labs Ltd was awarded the prestigious Commonwealth Broadcasting Association or the CBA award for ‘Innovative Engineering’ and NDTV’s Features Editor Sutapa Deb was honoured with the prestigious ‘CBA-Thomson Foundation Journalist of the Year’ at the CBA’s Broadcasting Awards for 2008 presented in Nassau, Bahamas.

    NDTV Labs set an unprecedented record for media houses by winning this award for the fifth time in six years. NDTV Labs also took the opportunity to launch the nX series of software products at the Conference at the Commonwealth Broadcasting Association’s Broadcasting Awards for 2008.

    Sutapa Deb who won the CBA – Thomson Foundation Journalist of the Year award is the driving force behind India’s pioneering television series, India Matters. This rare series engages viewers with development issues at a time when most TV channels are catering to politics, cricket and films.

    About her work, Sutapa says: “There are thousands of stories waiting to be told. Often I wish there was a little less cynicism and a lot more idealism. Stories come and go before people can understand the context and because of this we have failed to deepen our understanding about a
    number of vital issues that face our society. Each story is important, and must be well told”.

    Some of Sutapa’s path breaking reports include Banker to the Poor and India’s Coming Out. The most recent series is on positive children who are neglected by the system. Her report looks at the lack of institutions for HIV orphans.

    Apart from the CBA-Thomson Foundation journalist award, Sutapa is the recipient of the Indian Telly Award for the best documentary of the year for her documentary Unsung Heroes of the Gujarat Earthquake, 2002 and the Ramnath Goenka award for excellence in journalism in 2006.

  • Barkha Dutt is Commonwealth Broadcasting Assoc’s ‘journalist of the year’

    Barkha Dutt is Commonwealth Broadcasting Assoc’s ‘journalist of the year’

    MUMBAI: NDTV journalist and the managing editor of NDTV 24X7 Barkha Dutt has been honoured with the prestigious Commonwealth Broadcasting Association -Thomson Foundation, ‘Journalist of the Year Award’. The category included nominations from 53 Commonwealth countries, including the BBC and Channel 4.

    The award was presented for her reporting in the last one year where she covered issues from the Kashmir earthquake, which united the two neighboring countries in tragedy, to the campaign for Justice for the Jessica Lall Murder case and the communal violence in Vadodara.

    Accepting the awards Dutt said, “This award means more than any other because you know that you are up against the best in the business. It’s a great honour and I thank CBA for this recognition”

    The CBA was founded in February 1945 as the Commonwealth Broadcasting Conference. The first meeting, held in London, brought together representatives of a number of broadcasting organizations that had co-operated closely in reporting the Second World War. It began with only six members but today it is an association of more than 100 broadcasting organizations in Europe, Asia, Africa, the Caribbean, Australasia, the Pacific, North and South America.