LONDON (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Reuters News Manager Paul Ingrassia presented Kurt Schork Awards to the winners - Aikins, Neha Dixit, who was named Local Reporter of the year and Priyanka Dubey who received a 'Special Recognition' award.
Matthieu Aikins, who won the Kurt Schork Memorial Fund's freelance journalist award of the year, disagrees with the notion that no story is worth dying for.
Accepting his award at Thomson Reuters' London office on Thursday, the Canadian said there are many stories worth taking risks for and that some, in a philosophical sense, would be worth dying for.
Dixit is a freelance investigative journalist based in New Delhi. Her hard-hitting stories on commercial sex exploitation, child marriage, female feticide and forced labour earned her a Trust Women Award from Thomson Reuters Foundation in 2013.
Dubey was commended for coverage of India's 'forgotten rapes', stories that brought public attention to the long wait for justice for Indian victims of violent sexual assault, despite national legal reforms.
Kurt Schork Awards, now in their 13th year, were created in honour of American freelance journalist Kurt Schork, who was killed in 2000 while on assignment for Reuters in Sierra Leone.
