NWMI Bengal hosted a discussion on women’s role in electronic journalism and film making with Samia Zaman, on her journey in journalism, starting with a job at the BBC in London to her current work in a popular TV channel in Bangladesh.
The Committee to Protect Journalists awarded Malini Subramaniam, a contributor to the news website scroll.in, its 2016 Press Freedom Award. CPJ noted that Subramaniam was one of the few journalists reporting from Bastar in Chhattisgarh, the epicenter of the conflict between Maoist and security forces, until she was forced to leave the area in early 2016.
NWMI wrote to India Today questioning the sensationalist headline and content of a recent newsreport on the rape of a girl aboard the Howrah-Amritsar express
Dalvi, Editor, Mumbai edition, Awadhnama faces many cases in different Mumbai police stations and threats