Indian The Wire gets Free Media Pioneer award
Indian non-profit news site The Wire is getting the Free Media Pioneer award, an annual recognition established by International Press Institute (IPI) in 1996 to “recognize media organizations that are innovating for better journalism and news access, or working to ensure freer and more independent media in their country or region.
For the past six years, the award has been given in partnership with Copenhagen-based International Media Support (IMS).
This year’s Free Media Pioneer award will be presented together with IPI’s 2021 World Press Freedom Hero award during a special ceremony on September 16, 2021, in Vienna, Austria, as part of IPI’s annual World Congress..
”The Wire was founded in 2015 as an independent digital news venture by a trio of journalists – Siddharth Varadarajan, MK Venu and Sidharth Bhatia – with several decades of experience between them”, IPI said.
”The Wire has shown that deeply reported accountability journalism that’s trusted by its audience can be translated into sustainable revenues.
”Amid India’s press freedom downslide, The Wire’s commitment to public-interest news has also made it a growing target of government harassment”, IPI said.
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