Vidyasagar and women’s issues
By Manjira Majumdar In the countdown to the final phase of the Lok Sabha polls, in Bengal, in the absence of any real focus on the concerns of ordinary citizens, it is ironical that an early 19th Century Bengali Hindu reformer, Ishwar Chandra Vidyasagar, who...
NWMI Condemns Unfair Labour Practice by International News Agency
The Network of Women in Media in India (NWMI) is shocked at the despicable manner in which one of its members has been treated by a reputable international news agency, Agencia EFE, a Spanish News Agency, the world’s fourth largest, headquartered in Madrid, Spain.
Web media pay more attention to gender in election coverage
By Manjira Majumdar Despite the fact that there has been a marked rise in women candidates contesting the 2019 Lok Sabha polls, at least in some parts of the country, the “mainstream” media has still not paid much attention to the political aspirations and...
Nileena M S Wins ACJ Award
NWMI member Nileena M S won the ACJ Award for Investigative Journalism, 2018, for her story ‘Coalgate 2.0: The Adani Group reaps benefits worth thousands of crores of rupees as the coal scam continues under the Modi government’ published as a cover story in Caravan magazine in March 2018.