Freelance Independent Indian Journalist Neha Dixit was among one of the recipients of the 2019 International Press Freedom Awards. Ms. Dixit is well known for her long-form investigative reports on Politics, child trafficking, Social Justice and Gender in the South Asian region.

International Press Freedom Award is awarded annually by the Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) to honor journalists around the world who had shown great courage in defending the press freedom despite facing threats, attacks or imprisonment.