NWMI denounces TV news coverage of the Sushant Singh Rajput case
The Network of Women in Media, India, denounces the media trial being carried out by a section of TV news channels in the Sushant Singh Rajput case. The case has dominated primetime news for almost a month now, to the exclusion of other important issues such as the...
Priyanka Dubey Wins Chameli Devi Award
On March 9, 2019, NWMI member Priyanka Dubey, bilingual correspondent with the BBC, Delhi, received the Chameli Devi Jain Award for an Outstanding Woman Journalist for the year 2018.
The jury comprising Bharat Bhushan, former editor, Sheela Bhatt, National Editor, (News) NewsX, and Vandita Mishra, National Opinion Editor, The Indian Express, said “Her news reports take up the burning and complex social and political issues of our times, helping uncover the reality underlying them showing them to be layered, complex, and variegated.”
Preventing & Redressing SH@W: NWMI/G@W Survey
Network of Women in Media, India and Gender at Work jointly conducted a survey of media houses’ responses to the issue of sexual harassment. The survey was filled by 456 women (including cis women, transwomen and gender fluid individuals), working in print, electronic, online media, radio, on a full-time, part-time, contract, stringer or freelance basis. It also included journalism educators, trainers and researchers. It was filled in English, Hindi, Telugu and Tamil. HIghlights from the survey:
Panels or Manels? Desperately seeking women in Indian TV news debates
Although women constitute around half of the human population, their voices and opinions are not proportionately heard in the public sphere. Television news channels in India regularly feature panel discussions with spokespersons and experts to analyse and debate current events and issues, but women are invariably under-represented in these forums.
NWMI volunteers monitored TV news channels for women’s representation, for one month, covering 28 channels in 12 languages. The report on the Study on the Representation of Women in Indian TV News Channels was released on February 1, 2019.