Makepeace Sitlhou

2017 - Web - Article

2019 - Business Reporting

‘Outstanding business reporting about South Asia or the world wide South Asia diaspora: All Media’ category for my story, Sweet or Salty: Could Black rice become Manipur’s Quinoa?’

2024 - Shortlisted in Climate/Environment reporting

A wall runs through it — A short documentary by Trilce Estrada Olvera, Makepeace Sitlhou, Hakob Karapetyan, Cronkite News, Arizona State University

2023 - COLLEGE NON-FICTION (SHORT)

A Wall Runs Through It A documentary on the environmental damage caused by the shipping containers placed on the US Mexico border in Arizona’s Coronado national forest. Arizona State University - Walter Cronkite School of Journalism and Mass Communication • Trilce Estrada Olvera, director / photographer / editor • Makepeace Sitlhou, director / producer / writer • Hakob Karapetyan, director / photographer / editor

2022 - Collaborative Reporting

https://www.thenewhumanitarian.org/news-feature/2022/09/07/Myanmar-India-border-refugee-health-crisis The story is about the refugee doctors from Myanmar’s Chin State who escaped to Mizoram, which shares a 316-mile-long border in the Northeastern part of India. After the military coup in February last year, these physicians became the target of the ruling Military Junta for staging protests as a part of the civil disobedience movement in Myanmar. The story focuses on the work these doctors are doing along the borders, with reflections after a year of escaping and finding a stable footing in a foreign country. They run free clinics started by local civil society organizations to serve refugees living in Mizoram exclusively. But they continue to remain undercover, given the risk of exposure.

2023 - Finalist - Health and Wellness

Shortlisted in the Health and Wellness category for story on refugee doctors working in Indo Myanmar border published in The New Humanitarian https://t.co/ZTQcih9Nf0

2022 - Finalist - Women’s Empowerment and Gender Equality

My investigation on the inept handling of cases of sexual harassment at India’s premier engineer school in Guwahati (Assam), the Indian Institute of Technology. https://behanbox.com/2021/08/26/how-iit-guwahati-fostered-a-culture-of-impunity-to-sexual-offences/

2022 - Runners Up - Investigative Reporting

For my story on the former army man and Border Police official in Assam, who was declared an illegal foreigner by a foreigner's tribunal https://fiftytwo.in/story/the-foreigner/

2020 - Reporting (National Foundation for India)

For reporting on illegal coal mining in Meghalaya, Northeast India.

2021 - Lifestyle and Entertainment

For my CNN story on Teer gambling in Meghalaya https://t.co/FYKkmtam9c