Ramnath Goenka Excellence in Journalism Awards

The Ramnath Goenka Excellence in Journalism Awards (RNG Awards) are one of the awards in India in the field of journalism. Named after Ramnath Goenka, the awards have been held annually since 2006, with the 12th edition being held in 2017. The awards are given for both print journalism as well as broadcast journalism, with a total of 25 different prizes being awarded in 2017 for excellence in journalism during 2016. In Fact Indian Express group started, Ramnath Goenka India Press Photo Award in 2004. This award was only for media photographers and the winners was announced in December 2004 at Nariman House, Express tower in Mumbai and Photo Journalist Shailendra Pandey won The First Picture of the year award.



Past winners have included Kuldip Nayar (Lifetime award), Siddharth Varadarajan (The Hindu), Shashi Tharoor, Dionne Bunsha, Muzamil Jaleel (The Indian Express), Rajdeep Sardesai, Karan Thapar (CNN IBN), Kishalay Bhattacharjee, Ravish Kumar, Umashankar Singh (Mojo) NDTV, Nidhi Razdan (NDTV), Neelesh Mishra (Hindustan Times), Christophe Jaffrelot (The Caravan), Mark Tully (BBC), Arnab Goswami (Times Now) and Sudhir Chaudhary (Zee News) among others. Foreign journalists to have won the award for Foreign Correspondent Covering India include Amelia Gentleman (The New York Times International Edition) and Stephanie Nolen (The Globe and Mail).

The Ramnath Goenka Memorial Debate, started in 2007, is also held during the event.

Award categories
Over the years, the awards categories have changed. Awards can remain ungiven if there is no suitable winner, such as for the Ramnath Goenka Memorial Award For Lifetime Achievement In Journalism. The awards also have a cash prize, which over the years has also changed. Award categories during the 12th edition included:

Print

 * Reporting From J&K And The Northeast
 * Hindi
 * Regional Languages
 * Environmental Reporting
 * Uncovering India Invisible
 * Business & Economic Journalism
 * Political Reporting
 * Sports Journalism
 * On The Spot Reporting
 * Investigative Reporting
 * Feature Writing
 * Foreign Correspondent
 * Commentary And Interpretative Writing
 * Civic Journalist
 * Photo Journalism

Broadcast

 * Reporting From J&K And The Northeast
 * Hindi
 * Regional Languages
 * Environmental Reporting
 * Uncovering India Invisible
 * Business & Economic Journalism
 * Political Reporting
 * Sports Journalism
 * On The Spot Reporting
 * Investigative Reporting

Past award categories
Past awards have included categories such as 'Excellence in HIV/AID Reporting Award', a joint initiative of Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, United States Agency for International Development (USAID) and Indian Express Group. Other past awards include 'Priya Chandrashekhar Memorial Award For Excellence In Editing' and the 'Prakash Kardaley Memorial Award For Civic Journalism'. In 2020, the 'conflict reporting' category was removed for the year.

Best Book (Non-Fiction)

 * 2020 : Tripurdaman Singh (Sixteen Stormy Days)
 * 2019 : Arun Mohan Sukumar (Midnight’s Machines: A Political History of Technology in India)
 * 2018 : Gyan Prakash (Emergency Chronicles Indira Gandhi and Democracy's Turning Point)
 * 2017 : Milan Vaishnav (When Crime Pays: Money and Muscle in Indian Politics)
 * 2016 : Shashi Tharoor (Inglorious Empire)
 * 2015 : Akshaya Mukul (Gita Press and The Making of Hindu India)
 * 2014 : Ziauddin Sardar (Mecca : The Sacred City)
 * 2013 : Gary J. Bass (The Blood Telegram: Nixon, Kissinger, and a Forgotten Genocide)
 * 2012 : Cathy Scott-Clark
 * 2011 : Mark Tully (Non-Stop India)
 * 2010 : Mahmood Farooqui (Besieged: voices from Delhi 1857)
 * 2009 : Wendy Doniger (The Hindus: An Alternative History)
 * 2008 : Harish Damodaran (India's New Capitalists: Caste, Business and Industry in a Modern Nation)
 * 2007 : Ramachandra Guha (India After Gandhi)
 * 2006 : Dionne Bunsha