by sandhya | Jan 31, 2018 | Commentary, Features
Priyanka Divakar, a transgender radio jockey from Bengaluru, spoke at NWMI’s meet in Chennai, in the session ‘Equity in the Newsroom’:
“I am Priyanka. I am a transgender radio jockey (RJ) working in Bengaluru. Everyone here has been talking about equity in a newsroom. What I would like to say is that given the current circumstances, not everyone gets opportunities, but when one does get the opportunity, how one uses it for the benefit of the community becomes important.”
by sandhya | Jan 19, 2018 | Commentary, Features
NWMI’s Nishita Jha joins Buzzfeed as its new global women’s rights and gender reporter. In this interview with Columbia Journalism Review, she talks about how she plans to push coverage beyond the woman as victim or victor, and look at the way big issues affect women and the way that women interact with the world.
by sandhya | Jan 13, 2018 | Blogs, Features
Raihana Maqbool and Baseera Rafiqi from Kashmir report on the everyday heros and heroines who don’t make the headlines in this conflict region. V Nagamani is a programmer with a rural radio network in Karnataka. The three young women journalists spoke to Jyoti Punwani at NWMI’s Chennai meet on how they work despite the constraints of their environments.
by sandhya | Jan 10, 2018 | Statements
The NWMI at its recently concluded 13th national meeting in Chennai expressed its deep concern at the widespread insecurity and vulnerability in the media profession in these times of growing intolerance, when freedom of expression and spaces for dissent are under siege.
by sandhya | Jan 7, 2018 | Statements
The Network of Women in Media, India, is appalled that the Unique Identification Authority of India (UIDAI) has reportedly lodged a police complaint against Rachna Khaira, a journalist at The Tribune, over her report on the vulnerability of Aadhaar data.
