A Tribute to Indu Ramesh
By Smitha Ramanathan Veteran media woman Indu Ramesh passed away on August 26, 2020. She was 83 years old. She started out as a transmission executive with All India Radio and retired more than 30 years later as the station director of Bangalore’s Commercial...
Neha Dixit awarded CPJ’s 2019 International Press Freedom Award
The Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) has awarded the 2019 International Press Freedom Award to NWMI member Neha Dixit.She is among five winners from four countries. According to CPJ, in 2019, Dixit spent months investigating and reporting stories that shed a...
“It was wonderful being a woman on Doordarshan”
A walk down memory lane with mediaperson Luku Sanyal. Sanyal, an English professor and one of the earliest faces on Doordarshan, has witnessed the birth of television journalism in India. There is scarcely a field of media that Sanyal has not ventured into....
NEWS BEHIND THE BARBED WIRE: Kashmir’s Information Blockade
A month after the abrogation of Article 370 of the Constitution of India, which granted special status to Jammu and Kashmir, on August 5, 2019, the continuing shutdown of communication in the Kashmir valley has resulted in the throttling of independent media.