KARACHI, Dec 19: Shimaila Matri Dawood of Newsline has been declared the runner-up in the print/online category in the CNN Young Journalist Award, with Indian freelancer Anuj Chopra from Pune declared the winner.

Aaj Tak’s Ravinder Sharma won the award in the television category, while Sahara Samay’s Amit Kumar Shrivastava was the runner-up. V H Harishbabu of India Vision Channel, Kochi, was the winner in the cameraperson category, says a Press release.

Matri Dawood won the runner-up award for her article Will the Real Pakistani Woman Please Stand Up? about women’s empowerment. Chopra, who won the prize for his story No Entry, We are the Meat Nazis, portrays how in different parts of Mumbai, housing societies are shunning non-vegetarians.