Senior journalist Ravish Kumar, who is named as the winner of this year's Ramon Magsaysay Award, on Friday claimed that journalists are working in an atmosphere of fear, and neutral journalism is unlikely to survive as media is dependent on corporate finances in India.
A well-know journalist, Kumar (44), a senior executive editor with NDTV India, is among five winners of the Asia's prestigious award.
The award citation said,"In a media environment threatened by an interventionist state, toxic with jingoist partisans, trolls and purveyors of 'fake news,' and where the competition for market ratings has put the premium on 'media personalities,' 'tabloidisation,' and audience-pandering sensationalism, Ravish has been most vocal on insisting that the professional values of sober, balanced, fact-based reporting be upheld in practice."