Sexual harassment in media workplaces: Ammu Joseph’s book examines shared experiences across time
Disclosure after disclosure by Indian women over the past week have brought to public attention for the first time the pervasiveness of sexual harassment in Indian media workplaces. The experiences shared by women journalists across the country 20 years ago and recorded in Ammu Joseph’s book, Making News: Women in Journalism, first published in 2000, establish that the existence of the problem has been known for a long time, as have some of the names now tumbling out of the closet.
The Annual Awards 2018 for the best articles and photographs on a humanitarian subject, instituted by the Press Institute of India (PII) and the New Delhi Regional Delegation of the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC), were announced and presented in Chennai on 21 September 2018. Two NWMI members, Maitri Porecha and Rakhee Roytalukdar, were among the eight awardees.
Pioneering feminist economist Devaki Jain joins members of the NWMB for an informal chat at the Press Club of Bangalore.
As C Vanaja, award-winning film maker and journalist, marks a silver jubilee in journalism, she looks back on 25 years of story-telling in the print, broadcast and online media. For Vanaja, who is one of the founder members of the NWMI, it has not been easy, but she has enjoyed an extremely rewarding professional life. In her words, it was “A journey where there were no steps or elevators but one where I constructed each step on my own and climbed upon it.” With the help of her courageous grandmother, she escaped child marriage, and was instead able to report about the health issues of child brides more than a decade later, as a professional journalist.