R Sreekumar, Business- IT Journalist and representative of Cyber News Service, a division of Cyber Media (I) Ltd has won the third MPNarayana Pillai Memorial Journalism Award instituted by Dhanam Business Magazine.
It was his weekly column `Economic Review' in the Malayalam News daily, a subsidiary of Arab News published from Saudi Arabia that won for him the award comprising Rs 10,000 and a plaque. The award, which is given annually, is for the best column/article published in Malayalam. It was a three member panel consisting of VP Ramachandran, senior journalist and former Chairman of Kerala Press Academy, MK Das, Former Editor (Kerala) of the Indian Express and CJ George, MD of Geojith Securities Ltd that selected him for the award.
"The simple but illuminating way Sreekumar analyses topics of national importance as well as those relating to the problems of Kerala is laudable and worthy of recognition," the judging committee observed.
A graduate in Economics and a post graduate in Journalism, Sreekumar was Thiruvananthapuram correspondent of the Financial Express from 1996-01, which he joined as Sub-Editor in 1995. Also a moderator of Asianet business programs, he had started his award-winning column in Malayalam News in 1999.