The Wire’s Siddharth Varadarajan wins Shorenstein Journalism Award

Siddharth Varadarajan, the founding editor of The Wire, has won the Shorenstein Journalism Award for 2017. The award is given annually by Stanford University’s Walter H Shorenstein Asia-Pacific Research Center (APARC) to a journalist for his/her outstanding reporting on Asia and contribution made to the West’s understanding of the region.

“Siddharth Varadarajan’s insightful reporting and analysis of strategic policy issues have made him a leading journalist and commentator,” said Navan Chanda, jury member for the award and founder and former editor-in-chief of YaleGlobal Online Magazine. Chanda adds: “His initiative in independent,web-based journalism as founding editor of The Wire, his distinguished body of well-researched reports, and his profound commentaries exemplify journalism excellence and innovation.”

Varadarajan has been the editor of The Hindu and has taught economics at New York University and Journalism at the University of California, Berkeley, before founding The Wire.

Some recent recipients of the award are Ian Johnson, Yoichi Funabashi, and Jacob Schlesinger.