Protest against award

IN Media Watch Briefs | 05/09/2010

Siddharth Varadarajan of the Hindu has written to the jury which gave the Indian News Broadcasting Award for News Reporter of the Year 2010, Hindi, to Neeta Sharma of NDTV India, protesting at the choice. He says this was the reporter who had written a false story in the Hindustan Times calling Iftikhar Gilani an ISI agent some years ago. The story contributed to the journalist’s incarceration and caused Gilani no end of trouble, but the reporter and the paper never published an apology for it.

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