by poonam | May 29, 2012 | Blogs, Features
By Editors 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...
by poonam | Apr 24, 2012 | Statements
The Network of Women in Media, India (NWMI), strongly condemns the violent and sexist abuse unleashed on poet, writer, activist and translator Meena Kandasamy, presumably in response to her posts on Twitter about the beef-eating festival at Osmania University,...
by poonam | Mar 2, 2012 | Chapter News, Network News
By Editors In Riots and After in Mumbai: Chronicles of Truth and Reconciliations (Sage Publications, 2012), Meena Menon (deputy bureau chief and deputy editor, The Hindu, Mumbai) intersperses her observations as a reporter on the 1993 communal riots with narratives of...
by poonam | Jan 29, 2012 | Awards
By Editors 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...
by poonam | Jan 29, 2012 | Awards
By Editors Two members of Bengal -Net were among the winners of the Laadli Media Awards for Gender Sensitivity 2011-2012 (Eastern Region). Ranjita Biswas won the Best Feature-Newspaper for her article Walking the Line, on women on the Indo-Bangladesh border who get...
