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2019

Question [CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
Who won the Chameli Devi Jain Award 2018 for outstanding women journalist?
A
Nidhi Razdan
B
Priyanka Dubey
C
Neha Dixit
D
Barkha Dutt
Explanation: 

Detailed explanation-1: -Detailed Solution. Priyanka Dubey, a bilingual correspondent with the BBC, was named for the Chameli Devi Jain Award for an Outstanding Woman Journalist for the year 2018. She was chosen for her multi-faceted, investigative and interrogative reportage.

Detailed explanation-2: -Neerja Chowdhury won the inaugural award in 1981. In 2015, Supriya Sharma of Scroll.in became the first online journalist to receive the award. The most recent award was given to Aarefa Johari.

Detailed explanation-3: -Aarefa Johari is a journalist and feminist activist. She started her career in the media in 2009, as a reporter and features writer with the Hindustan Times in Mumbai. Since 2014, she has been working with Scroll.in, one of India’s leading independent digital news publications.

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