Lorenzo Natali Media Prize - Current Affairs Questions and Answers

1)   Independent Delhi based writer Ankita Anand has won the EU prestigious award, the Lorenzo Natali Media Prize for 2015 under which category?

a. Asia and Pacific amateur category
b. Asia and Africa amateur category
c. Asia amateur category
d. None of the above
Answer  Explanation 

ANSWER: Asia and Pacific amateur category

Explanation:
Ankita Anand on 14th January 2016 won the European Commission prestigious Lorenzo Natali Media Prize in 2015 in Asia and Pacific amateur category. She has earned the prize for a young woman’s story of facing the diktat of khap panchayats in Haryana with the title Stirrings Beneath the Peepul published in the journal The Equator Linel. Arison Tamfu editor of the Cameron Journal has won the Lorenzo Natali Grand Prize for critical investigative report on the manner in which the UN Climate change negotiations called on nations to make the transition from fossil fuels to renewable energy. Organized by the European Commission’s DG for International Cooperation and Development since 1992. The Prize is divided into two distinct categories- amateur and professional journalism.