Impact of Ownership on Media Independence
As journalists at the Hyderabad Meet spoke of how they were harassed for doing their job, Padmaja Shaw, retired professor of journalism at Osmania University, put these narratives in a broader context.
Tumultous Times: Changing Concerns in the Media
Senior journalist Kalpana Sharma spoke at NWMI’s 2016 National Meeting in Hyderabad on the changing concerns of the media, and highlighted the need to go back to the basics of journalism
The bearable lightness of being – the NWMI 14 years later, at the Hyderabad meet
Ammu Joseph, an NWMI co-founder, stirred nostalgia and hope at the 2016 National Meeting in Hyderabad
GMMP 2015: Progress for women in news media grinds to a halt
Worldwide, women make up about 50% of the general population but only 24% of the persons heard, read about or seen in newspaper, television and radio news. Only 26% of the people in internet news stories and media news tweets combined are women. These were among the findings of the Global Media Monitoring Project (GMMP)’s latest study on the portrayal and representation of women in the news media.
Examining Women’s Magazines in Bengal
The NWMI-Bengal chapter and the department of media studies, Jadavpur University, organised a one-day panel discussion on the strengths and weaknesses of women’s magazines in Bengal. The programme was enriched by the participation of a visiting delegation of Bangladeshi journalists.