rediff com and India Abroad, the weekly newspaper owned by rediff.com and published in North America, have won four SAJA journalism awards for 2003, including a joint special recognition award for 'outstanding coverage of the death of Kalpana Chawla on the Space Shuttle Columbia.'
The awards have been instituted by the New York-headquartered South Asian Journalists Association, and are given annually for excellence in journalism in various categories.
The other three rediff.com/India Abroad winners this year are:
India Abroad National Affairs Editor Aziz Haniffa for his column, 'True Labor of Love,' which 'highlighted the need for enlightened philanthropy in the Indian-American community' (Outstanding commentary);
Senior Editor Arthur J Pais, for outstanding coverage of South Asians; and
Photographer Paresh Gandhi for 'Jindal's Final Push', 'A photographer's chronicle of the final 40 hours of Bobby Jindal's candidacy for governor of Louisiana.'
Other winners in various categories included Jai Singh, editor-in-chief of News.com, Manjeet Kripalani and Pete Engardio of BusinessWeek, Fareed Zakaria of Newsweek, Alex Perry of Time, Pamela Constable of The Washington Post, Paul Steiger, managing editor of The Wall Street Journal, Amy Waldman of The New York Times, Lesley Stahl and Rome Hartman, CBS News 60 Minutes, Josh Gerstein, ABC News Nightline, Satinder Bindra of CNN, Anindya Mukherjee, Bloomberg News, and Michael Sullivan of NPR, among others.
They will all receive a certificate at the SAJA Annual Dinner on Saturday, June 19, at Columbia University.