NDTV’s Ravish Kumar has been awarded the 2019 Ramon Magsaysay Award, the institution announced on Friday.
Kumar, Senior Executive Editor at NDTV India, has been awarded the honour “for harnessing journalism to give voice to the voiceless”, it said in a tweet.
The award’s citation called Kumar one of India’s most influential TV journalists and said that his ‘Prime Time’ programme “deals with real-life, under-reported problems of ordinary people”.
“If you have become the voice of the people, you are a journalist,” the citation added.
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.