Archive · 29 Dec 2025
Scroll's Vaishnavi Rathore Wins IPI Award
Vaishnavi Rathore, a journalist from Scroll, won a big award for her reporting on a project in Great Nicobar Island.
She was the first to report on how this project could harm the environment and the local tribes.
Her work showed how the project might destroy a unique ecosystem and put endangered tribes at risk.
Scroll's readers helped fund her reporting.
The award includes a trophy, a certificate, and Rs 2 lakh in cash.
The International Press Institute, which gives out this award, is a group that supports press freedom and good journalism.
Vaishnavi Rathore won the IPI India Award for Excellence in Journalism for her reportage on the Great Nicobar Island Development Project.
She was the first journalist to report on the project's environmental and social implications.
Her reports highlighted the potential destruction of a unique ecosystem and the endangerment of local tribes.
Scroll readers crowdfunded the reporting project.
The award includes a trophy, citation, and a cash prize of Rs 2 lakh.
- Who
- Vaishnavi Rathore, a journalist from Scroll
- What
- Won the IPI India Award for Excellence in Journalism
- When
- Monday
- Where
- India
- Why
- For her reportage on the Great Nicobar Island Development Project
- Award
- IPI India Award for Excellence in Journalism
- Recipient
- Vaishnavi Rathore
- Prize
- Rs 2 lakh
- Project
- Great Nicobar Island Development Project
- Organization
- International Press Institute (IPI)
