Matri Shree Media Award Explained

Matri Shree Media Award
Awarded For:The excellence in the field of print as well as electronic media
Location:Delhi, India
Year:1975
Website:MSMA

The Matri Shree Media Award is a series of awards for outstanding performance in different areas of journalism and related fields awarded in New Delhi, India. This award was established during the days of The Emergency (India) in 1975. Since then, this award has been awarded annually to 25 outstanding candidates in print journalism and electronic media. Starting in 2000, Indian filmmakers were also eligible to receive awards. Senior Journalist Dinesh Sharma is the convener of the award committee.[1]

Prominent recipients

Journalists

Lala Jagat Narain, Ramesh Chander, Dr Rajender Mathur, Khushwant Singh, Ashwini Chopra, Mahender Khanna, Harish Chopra, Shekhar Singh Jha, Pankaj Vohra, Dilbar Gothi, Ashok Sharma, Vijay J. Darda, Banwarilal Purohit, Manish Pandey of TOI, Jitesh Wadhawan of PTI, Naresh Kaushik of PTI, R K Saxena (UNI Varta), Javed Akhtar (UNI Urdu service), Faizal Khan (UNI), Zia-us-Salam (film critic, the Hindu) Anuj Gupta, Agyaraam Prem, K Narinder, Anil Narinder, Bhavna Vij, Kuldeep Avinash Bhandari, Shakeel Hasan Shamsi, Deepak Dholkia, Indiwar Parijat, Dinesh Upretee, M K Laul, Ashok Singhal, Rakesh Gupta, Aditi Kaul, Rakesh Dua, Poonam Pandey, Usha Pahwa, Meenakshi Rao, Sumit Kumar Singh, Pramod Kumar Singh, Anup Verma etc.[2] [3]

Cartoonists

Irfan Hussain (Outlook), Shekhar Gurera, R Prasad, Rohnit, Surendra (The Hindu), Ismail Lehri, Sandeep Adhvaryu (TOI) etc.

Photo-Journalists

Ravi Batra, Dhruv Kumar, Shailesh Seth (cameraman - Star News), Surender Mandral (cameraman - Zee News), Ritu Rajput (AIR),H C Tiwari (The Hindustan Times), Manoj Verma (India Today), C N Rao (Eenadu), Sirish Shete (PTI) etc.

Awardees of Matru Shree Media Award

S.No / Date Film Journalist (Print) Photo Journalist Cartoonist Journalist (Electronics)Video Journalist
42nd / 2017 Sarbjit Santu Das (UNI), Archana (Univarta), Maqsood (UNI), Rajesh Rai(PTI)... Surendra (The Hindu) ... ...
43rd / 2018 [4] Sanya Pandey (UNI), Rajiv Upreti (Univarta), Amandeep Shukla (PTI), Vaibhav (Bhasha)Vipin (Jagran), Manas Ranjan (Tribune)Ismail Lehri (Bhaskar)... Kartik Harbola (LSTV)
44th / 2019[5] Sarvotam Jaipuriyar (PTI), Namita Singh (Bhasha), A P Singh (UNI), Jitender (Univarta), Poonam Gaur (NBT)D P Mishra (PTI), Rahul Singh (ANI), Paras (Jagran) Sandeep Adhvaryu (TOI)Vishnu Sharma (India News), Ranjeet Kumar (Aajtak)Dilip Avasthi (India News)

References

http://www.uniindia.com/41st-matri-shree-media-awards-announced-3-uni-journos-in-list/india/news/448781.html

Notes and References

  1. http://www.readwhere.com/read/159868/g4u-MEDIA/1996-Matri-Shree-Award#page/1/2 20th Matri Shree Awards
  2. https://www.samachar4media.com/industry-briefing-news/journalist-awarded-with-matrishri-awards-16922.html 41st Matri Shree Awards
  3. https://hindi.dynamitenews.com/story/many-journalists-honored-with-matri-shree-media-award-in-delhi 43rd Matri Shree Awards
  4. 2018 : 43rd Matri Shree Awards DynamiteNews : 3 May 2018
  5. 2019 : 44th Matri Shree Awards Univarta : 10 Jun 2019