Matri Shree Media Award


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 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.

Prominent recipients

Journalists

, 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, Javed Akhtar, Faizal Khan, Zia-us-Salam 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, etc.

Cartoonists

, Shekhar Gurera, R Prasad, Rohnit, Surendra, Ismail Lehri, Sandeep Adhvaryu etc.

Photo-Journalists

Ravi Batra, Dhruv Kumar, Shailesh Seth, Surender Mandral, Ritu Rajput,
H C Tiwari, Manoj Verma, C N Rao, Sirish Shete etc.

Annually Awarded Indian Films

Awardees of Matru Shree Media Award