NDTV’s senior journalist Ravish Kumar has been awarded the 2019 Ramon Magsaysay Award, the highest honour given to Asian individuals and organisations and often referred to as the Asian version of the Nobel Prize.
The institute in a tweet said, “Kumar, Senior Executive Editor at NDTV India, has been awarded the honour “for harnessing journalism to give voice to the voiceless.”
The Magsaysay Award, established in 1957, seeks to reward individuals for integrity in governance, courageous service to the people, and pragmatic idealism in democratic societies.
Other recipients of the award this year include Myanmar’s Ko Swe Win, Thailand’s Angkhana Neelapaijit, Philippines’s Raymundo Pujante Cayabyab and South Korea’s Kim Jong-Ki.
The Magsaysay Award winners will each receive a certificate, a medallion bearing the image of the late Filipino leader Ramon Magsaysay, and a cash prize. They will be conferred with the Magsaysay Award during a formal presentation ceremony at a later date.