Scroll’s Vaishnavi Rathore wins IPI Award for Excellence in Journalism

Scroll’s Vaishnavi Rathore wins IPI Award for Excellence in Journalism

Scroll’s Vaishnavi Rathore won the International Press Institute India Award for Excellence in Journalism on Monday for her reportage on the Great Nicobar Island Development Project.Rathore, the first journalist to report from the ground about the contentious project’s environmental and social implications, was awarded for her reports that exposed “in detail how the Great Nicobar port project would destroy a unique eco-system and also could resu…