An Indian woman freelance journalist has been named as a finalist for a prestigious development journalism award by a British charity here, along with two Kenyan reporters.
Priyanka Dubey was named for the Thomson Foundation Young Journalist from the Developing World Award, to be presented as part of the annual UK Foreign Press Association (FPA) Awards event to be held here on November 25.
The entry list for the award had nearly 100 journalists from 39 countries in Africa, Asia, the Caribbean, Central and Eastern Europe, the Middle East, South America and Oceania.
Every journalist was asked to submit three examples each of her work and Dubey had submitted her stories that appeared in Tehelka Magazine and Yahoo News (India).
Priyanka's submission includes stories on women traffickers, the gang rape of an Indian policewoman and the abduction of two minor girls who were raped and murdered.
The award enables journalists aged under 30 from countries with Gross Domestic Product (GDP) per capita of less than USD 20,000 to enter their work for scrutiny by the FPA judges and Thomson Foundation, a British charity working in the field of training journalists for nearly 50 years.
"We received nearly 100 entries for the award this year from all over the world and the range and calibre of stories has been inspiring," Thomson Foundation Chief Executive Nigel Baker said in a statement.
The two Kenyans named for the award are Andrew Ochieng, a news reporter for NTV and Maurice Oniang'o, a TV producer and blogger for MEDEVA (Media Development in Africa).
Dubey had won the prestigious Ramnath Goenka Excellence in Journalism Award for her work in Hindi Print in 2011 earlier this year.
