Awards
Awards and fellowships matter. They acknowledge effort, endurance and the many invisible decisions that shape work. They are not the starting point, nor the ending.
Ramnath Goenka Award for Excellence in Journalism
Ramnath Goenka Excellence in Journalism Award, 2012 for reporting on political funding, for the investigative documentary, Paisa, Power and Politics, CNN-IBN
Gracies Award for Best Historical Documentary
The Midwife's Confession, BBC World Service, won at the 50th Annual Gracie Awards presented by the Alliance for Women in Media. The documentary investigates the story of village midwives in Bihar, India, who were forced to kill baby girls, and how a social worker helped them stop the practise and start saving baby girls. The film won the Health and Social Video Award by the Association of International Broadcasting (AIB) UK, and was nominated for the Critics' Choice Awards 2025 (India) in the Best Documentary category.
Chameli Devi Award for Outstanding Woman Media Person
Chameli Devi Jain Award for Outstanding Woman Media Person, 2014 awarded by the Media Foundation for a body of work including sustained coverage on incidents of violence against women, a documentary on the Muzaffarnagar communal riots, and the empathetic coverage of the Uttarakhand floods.
New York Film Festival Commendation
Irom Sharmila: The Iron Lady, CNN-IBN, 2008, reported and directed by Anubha Bhonsle, received a finalists' commendation from the New York Film Festival.
Asian Television Awards
In recognition of the innovative and citizen centric television format, The Citizen Journalist Show, edited by Anubha Bhonsle received the honour of the Best Cross-Platform Content at the Asian TV Awards for three consecutive years.
ICFJ Knight Fellow
As ICFJ Knight Fellow Anubha Bhonsle helped Indian journalists increase coverage of how gender impacts everything from business to technology to sports. She provided key editorial, storytelling innovation and strategic support for major media to re-imagine gender coverage using multimedia and digital tools and helped created #GenderAnd
