Indian Journo Rana Ayyub Gets Washington DC’s Press Freedom Award

HI INDIA NEWS DESK
WASHINGTON, DC-Renowned Indian journalist Rana Ayyub has received the National Press Club of Washington DC’s prestigious John Aubuchon Press Freedom Award. The journalist was conferred the award at the 2022 Fourth Estate Award Gala held just yesterday.

National Press Club President Jen Judson and National Press Club Journalism Institute President Gil Klein had said while announcing Ayyub’s name for the ward earlier this year, “Ayyub’s courage and skill in investigative work has been evident throughout her distinguished career and her criticism of the government has been met with an unwelcome assault on her rights and freedom of expression.”

In February 2020, Ayyub was awarded with the McGill Medal for journalistic courage at University of Georgia’s Grady College. She has also been named by Time magazine among ten global journalists who face maximum threats to their lives.