Journalist, author, and women's media activist Ammu Joseph, of the Network of Women, India, is the recipient of the Donna Allen Award for Feminist Advocacy instituted by the Commission of the Status of Women of the Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication (AEJMC), one of the top professional organizations for journalism educators, headquartered in Columbia, South Carolina.

Joseph is a freelance journalist who writes for The Hindu, Women's Feature Service and other publications and websites. She has been a visiting professor at the Asian College of Journalism in Chennai, teaching a course on "Covering Gender."

She has authored or edited several books, including Terror/Counter-Terror: Women Speak Out (co-edited with Kalpana Sharma), Women in Journalism Making News, and Whose News? The Media and Women's Issues (co-authored/edited with Kalpana Sharma). Joseph holds a bachelor's degree in journalism from Syracuse University (her first degree, in English Literature, is from Madras University). She started her career at Eve's Weekly.

Joseph initiated a participatory process of networking among mediawomen in India which included a national workshop on/for Indian women in journalism in in 2002. The conference, with more than 100 participants from 16 centres across the country, resulted in the launch of the Network of Women in Media, India.

The Donna Allen Award for Feminist Advocacy recognizes feminist advocacy by a woman or group who promotes the rights and freedoms of women and minorities across the world. The Award honors Donna Allen, the founder of the Women's Institute for Freedom of the Press in Washington, D.C.

Based on a press release from the AEJMC.