Pattabiraman, photojournalist with The New Indian Express in Puducherry, has bagged the Appan Menon Memorial Award for 2012-13 for his work ‘Souls of a homeland-Tamils after 30 years of war.’
Announcing this, AG Krishna Menon, Managing Trustee of Appan Menon Memorial Trust, (AMMT) New Delhi said that the award carried a cash prize of Rs 1 lakh.
The award was instituted by the AMMT to encourage journalists and photojournalists to investigate issues in international affairs or development.
Appan Menon was a journalist who began as an agency reporter and worked in the print media and finally in television in its early years.
Anchoring the popular weekly programme ‘The World This Week for NDTV,’ he followed International news and reports through an Indian perspective. Before joining NDTV, Menon had worked for The Hindu, Frontline, The Press Trust of India and UNI.
He had also spent time covering the United Nations HQ for Inter Press Service. The AMMT was established by his family and friends in 1996 soon after his untimely death on 28 June, 1996.
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