Polestar Foundation announces winners in IT and business journalism

The PoleStar Foundation announced the winners of the Eleventh Annual PoleStar Awards, instituted by the PoleStar Foundation in 1998 to promote excellence in IT and business journalism.

Andrew T Simkin, consul general, U S Consulate General, Chennai, presided over the function and felicitated the winners. Prabhu Chawla, group editorial director and editor, India Today, delivered the keynote address.

 The winners of the Eleventh Annual PoleStar Awards:

1. Best feature in IT:  Gunjan Trivedi, currently assistant editor, CIO, Mumbai, for his story, ''Serving IT shrunk'', published in CIO.
2. Best Feature in business: Dhanya Krishnakumar, currently principal correspondent, Businessworld, Bangalore, for her story, ''Sun in the backyard'', published in Businessworld.
3. The 'Jury's Special Recognition', went to E Kumar Sharma, assistant editor, Business Today, Hyderabad, for his stories on ''The route to 'dharmacracy''', ''On a (merit) roll'', and ''Messiah or merchant?'', published in BusinessToday.

 This year, the Foundation received 188 nominations from journalists across India.

The jury comprised Abhay Gupte, CEO, Logica India, Aruna Rao, CIO, Kotak Mahindra Bank, Dr. Ashok Korwar, CEO coach and former professor, IIM-A, Pradipto K. Mohapatra, president and CEO (technology business), RPG Enterprises and chairman, CII Southern Region, Ramraj R, co-founder and former CEO Sify Ltd., Uma Krishnan, executive director and head - regional markets operations, ABN AMRO Central Enterprise Services Pvt Ltd (ACES), Anand Sudarshan, CEO and MD, Manipal Education, Arun Kumar N T, CEO, Dun and Bradstreet Predictive Sciences and Analytics.