The Network of Women in Media, India, is an association which aims to provide a forum for women in media professions to share information and resources, exchange ideas, promote media awareness and ethics, and work for gender equality and justice within the media and society. Local groups linked to the NWMI are currently functioning in 16 centres across the country.
Journalists who happen to be women
Making News, Breaking News, Her Own Way is an anthology of essays written by many of the winners of the Chameli Devi Jain award for outstanding women media persons.
Tapping the glass ceiling
Pakistani journalist Hani Yousuf reflects on gender equality in European and Pakistani media during a temporary stint at a leading German newspaper. “At the (German) newspaper I was working in, there was one woman among a board of eight editors-in-chief, and among the 30 plus desk editors there only was a woman and she, too, happened to be on maternity leave. I realised then that in Germany if you wanted to be a successful woman, you needed to be a man.”
An anthology of Assamese short stories
'As the river flows', an anthology of Assamese short stories translated by BengalNet member Ranjita Biswas, hit the bookshelves on Bihu, the colourful Assamese harvest festival of song and dance.
Meena Menon wins Tanubai Birje woman journalist award 2012
Meena Menon, deputy bureau chief and deputy editor, The Hindu, Mumbai and NWMI Mumbai member, won the 2012 Tarabai Birje award for women journalists awarded by the daily Marathi paper Janatecha Mahanayak. The award is in the name of Tanubai Birje, a student of Jyotiba Phule, who edited the newspaper Dinbandhu in the early 1900s. Previous winners of the award include Pratima Joshi of Maharashtra Times and Rahi Bhide of Prahaar.
Pakistani journalist Zubeida Mustafa gets IWMF Lifetime Achievement Award
Each year, the US-based International Women's Media Foundation honours women journalists who have shown extraordinary strength of character and integrity while reporting the news under dangerous or difficult circumstances. This year the Lifetime Achievement Award goes to pioneering Pakistani journalist, Zubeida Mustafa. The 2012 Courage in Journalism awardees are Reeyot Alemu of Ethiopia, Asmaa al-Ghoul based in Gaza, and Khadija Ismayilova of Azerbaijan.
How safe are journalists in South Asia?
The International Federation of Journalists - Asia Pacific has published its latest report on press freedom and the quality of journalism in South Asia.
Double take
Women journalists in news television have to work twice as hard to be taken seriously, writes Divya Arya in this article based on her paper at the seminar on “Gender Discrimination: Myth or Reality”, organised by the Delhi Union of Journalists in Delhi on April 13, 2012.
Pakistani women in front of the TV news camera
They report from the war zone, anchor news programmes and host talk shows. And in an industry controlled by political interests and driven by the battle for TRPs, gender is only one of their problems. In the Karachi-based magazine Newsline’s ‘Breaking news: prime time television comes of age with a new generation of newswomen,’ Sana Bucha, Quatrina Hosain, Munizae Jahangir and other journalists in the electronic media speak on what it is like to be a mediawoman in Pakistan.
Kerala government to tackle the problems faced by women journalists
"The government will take a compassionate stand towards the problems faced by women journalists, such as lack of accommodation and absence of transport facilities for those working in night shifts,” said Kerala’s chief minister, Oommen Chandy.
NWMI condemns violent abuse of Meena Kandasamy
Statement supporting this courageous activist and writer threatened on Twitter for participating in Osmania University's beef-eating festival
