Indian American journalist, Ritu Jha won the Journalistic Excellence Award at the 46th annual San Francisco Press Club Awards held earlier this week at the San Francisco Elks Lodge, California.
The founder-editor of indica News, an online newspaper based out of California that caters to the needs of the South Asian diaspora in the US, Jha won the first place in Digital Media: Business/Technology for her story “California 10th-grader develops AI system to help specially-abled people safely cross roads.”
“Such honors are gratifying and give hope, no matter whether you are a startup or a small media outlet. Real impactful stories are always recognized,” Jha said on receiving the award.
She also won awards under the ‘Digital Media: Profile’ category, for the stories headlined ‘Indian American teen Indeever Madireddy on how he sequenced the angelfish genome’ and ‘Can’t have caste denial and bigotry in the U.S. anymore: Dalit rights activist Thenmozhi’.
The San Francisco Press Club had announced in November that it had received a record 544 entries for its 46th annual awards gala.
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