Merinews.com wins the Award for the best e-News Content in India for the year 2006.

It is a proud moment for the entire merinews family. Merinews.com has been awarded the Manthan Award for 2006, for the best e-News content in India.

The Citation read out on the occasion says:
“The internet communities have developed encyclopedia, dictionaries, music, operating systems, cultural projects, etc. through collaboration in cyberspace. But, not much has happened in the field of news. Merinews.com seeks to fill this space in the Indian media and take the Indian Internet community towards citizen journalism, where people write news and analysis right from where they see the action. The main concept behind merinews is to provide a platform which is open to individuals from diverse backgrounds from all over India and abroad to voice people’s concerns that touch their lives.”

Merinews is India’s first participatory journalism website and invites contribution from every citizen of India whether in or outside India. The website aims to generate quality news content from common people and aims to take up more of issues which are being ignored by the mainstream media.

We call upon all citizen journalists to continue to participate whole-heartedly on merinews.com. It is our combined effort that will take it from strength to strength.

Congratulations to all.