New Delhi: NDTV journalist Ravish Kumar has been nominated to receive the much coveted Ramon Magsaysay Award 2019. The award will be presented on September 9 at Manila.
He is one of the five winners of the 2019 Ramon Magsaysay Awards.
Ravish is the prime time face of the popular news channel NDTV and hosts a number of shows. He won the award for “harnessing journalism to give voice to the voiceless”, according to the Ramon Magsaysay Award Foundation. Kumar was being recognised for “his unfaltering commitment to a professional, ethical journalism of the highest standards; his moral courage in standing up for truth, integrity, and independence; and his principled belief that it is in giving full and respectful voice to the voiceless, in speaking truth bravely yet soberly to power, that journalism fulfills its noblest aims to advance democracy”.
Established in 1957, the Magsaysay Award rewards individuals for integrity in governance, courageous service to the people, and pragmatic idealism in democratic societies.
The other winners of the award for the year include Myanmar journalist Ko Swe Win, Thai rights activist Angkhana Neelapaijit, South Korean activist Kim Jong-ki and Filipino musician Raymundo Pujante Cayabyab.
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