Ganesh Shankar Vidyarthi Puraskar is an annual

journalism Journalism is the production and distribution of reports on the interaction of events, facts, ideas, and people that are the "news of the day" and that informs society to at least some degree of accuracy. The word, a noun, applies to the journ ...

award given by the

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. It was first granted in 1989. The award was instituted in the memory of Indian journalist and politician

Ganesh Shankar Vidyarthi Ganesh Shankar Vidyarthi (26 October 1890 – 25 March 1931) was an Indian journalist, a leader of the Indian National Congress and an independence movement activist. He was an important figure in the non-cooperation movement and the freedom mo ...

, who was killed during a riot in Kanpur.Gandhi, Rajmohan (2006). Gandhi: The Man, His People, and the Empire. University of California Press. p. 327. .

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