Hyderabad, February 3: Senior journalist E Krishna Rao, who is a well known face as the Doordarshan’s News Correspondent from Hyderabad E Krishna Rao was on Wednesday named the winner of the prestigious ‘Swiss TV Award’ for his entry ‘Let’s Play Please’.
An official statement from Doordarshan Kendra said the award would be presented to Mr Krishna Rao at Basel, Switzerland, on February 5.
The entry deals with stigma and discrimination attached to children living with HIV.
This is the sixth major international award for Mr Krishna Rao. A Fulbright Scholar from the USA, Mr Krishna Rao Rao has earlier won World Bank and Commonwealth Broadcasting Award twice in 2006, 2008, BBC World Trust prize 2006, Asia Pacific Broadcasting Union prize on climate change 2009, Japan Prize finalist on climate change 2009 and Journalist to Journalist fellowship from National Press Foundation, Washington 2010.
His programmes were also nominated in major international festival Grand Prix Italia. He had won four Doordarshan National Awards and Nandi Award from Government of Andhra Pradesh.
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