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Acceptance speech of Dhanya Rajendran, Chameli Devi Jain awardee for Outstanding Woman Mediaperson 2022. Dhanya Rajendran is the co-founder and the Editor-in-Chief of The News Minute. Someone told me that a good speech starts with an anecdote. I don't know if that's...
By Editors Members of the Network of Women in Media, India, were recognised for their work at the regional edition of the Laadli Media &Advertising Awards for Gender Sensitivity 2022. The awards are given by Population First, and supported by UNFPA and the...
By Editors High decibel screeching and frenetic finger pointing seem to be the staple of daily television news channels today. Be it prime time news or talk shows, aggression and competitive intimidation are rife in an atmosphere where hostile behaviour is not only...
By Editors The Network of Women in Media, India (NWMI) is very pleased to announce that photojournalist Akhila Easwaran has been conferred the Fifth NWMI Fellowship (2021). The Selection Committee was impressed by Akhila’s sensitive work and bold and enthusiastic...
“I want to show the Taliban and their allies that women never accept defeat. Women have always been and will always be with us. With the support of committed women from other countries, we will once again strive to achieve the rights of Afghan women,” says...
By Editors This guide covers the basics of how to report gender based violence sensitively. The information in this guide has been put together by NWMI members Ranjitha Gunasekaran, Assistant Resident Editor for Tamil Nadu, The New Indian Express, and Ragamalika...
The Network of Women in Media, India, expresses its outrage at the harassment and violence meted out to the elderly parents of award-winning Kashmiri photojournalist and NWMI member Masrat Zahra. Such harassment of vulnerable family members is an abhorrent strategy of...
By Editors If you take a second to think about it, it’s an odd impulse that drives journalists – to go everywhere and bear witness. To believe their presence is crucial for the righting of the scales. To believe their eye will see the small detail of the miniature and...
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.
Gandhian Elaben Bhatt, founder of the Self Employed Women’s Association, delivered the inaugural speech at NWMI’s 11th national meeting in Ahmedabad in 2014.