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Nileena Atholi Named Among Kerala Youth Icon Awardees
Nileena Atholi, Senior Sub Editor at Mathrubhumi Digital and member of the Network of Women in Media, India has been named among winners of the Youth Icon Awards 2025-26, instituted by the Kerala State Youth Commission.
NWMI Sounds Alarm over Weakening Editorial Independence, Calls for a Gender Sensitive Media Environment
The 20th National Meeting of the Network of Women in Media, India (NWMI), held in Thiruvananthapuram from February 6 to 8, identified a number of trends that are fast eroding editorial independence and shaping public discourse in ways that delegitimise the voices and experiences of women and other marginalised sections.
All Aboard
In its 24th year as a collective, the Network of Women in Media, India (NWMI) sets course for Thiruvananthapuram, Kerala for its 20th National Meeting. From February 6–8, 2026, women journalists and media practitioners from across the country – including remote and underrepresented regions – will gather to learn, listen, debate and reconnect.
Dhanya Rajendran wins Prof. Maxwell Fernandez Journalism Award
Dhanya Rajendran, Co-founder and Editor-in-Chief of The News Minute and member, Network of Women in Media, India, has been awarded the Prof. Maxwell Fernandez Journalism Award. The award is a recognition of her role in spearheading The News Minute as a credible news platform which effectively harnesses new media technologies.
Lessons for Life
When schools across Kerala reopened this June, students returned to classrooms with more than just new timetables. This year, they will be learning from newly revised textbooks that reflect a more inclusive and progressive worldview. As part of a major curriculum...
Win or lose, Kerala’s women leaders stick together
By Sarita Mohanan Bhama Kerala may not have sent any women to Parliament but its women leaders are showing solidarity with one another It’s a bit of an ‘oops’ moment for the long line of academics who have showcased Kerala’s women-propelled welfare climb. The people...
Withdraw Case Against Asianet News Chief Reporter Akhila Nandakumar: NWMI Kerala chapter
The case filed against Asianet News Chief Reporter Akhila Nandakumar by the Kerala Police is a direct affront to media freedom and the freedom of speech and expression, as guaranteed by Article 19 (1) (a) of the Indian Constitution. The case against Akhila Nandakumar...
NWMI condemns candidature of sexual harassment case accused in Trivandrum Press Club Elections
The Trivandrum Press Club Elections are set to happen on October 23, 2021. NWMI, being an independent organisation of women in media across India which works to ensure justice to them regardless of their proximity to positions of power and authority, generally does...
A Sidelong Reading List About The Sidelining Of KK Shailaja
By Editors On 18 May 2021, the news that KK Shailaja would not be returning as a minister in the second term of the LDF government in Kerala caused an uproar. As the much-admired health minister in the second year of the pandemic, she is now nearly a household name....
NWMI Kerala chapter statement on M. Radhakrishnan
To eminent personalities in political and cultural spheres, a statement by a collective of women journalists, Network of Women in Media (NWMI) Kerala chapter : Women journalists in Kerala have been protesting since November 2019 against the misogyny of a section of...
KR Gouri – A trailblazer many times over
By Leena Gita Reghunath The most iconic female politician that Kerala has ever known, KR Gouri, is no more. She left us on May 11, 2021, wrapped in the red communist flag that she loved, stamped with the hammer, sickle and star. Born into an Ezhava Dalit family that...
Politics in coastal Kerala: Lives lost in a sea of manifestos
By Jisha Elizabeth Who will rule Kerala? The coastal voters have a decisive role in answering this question. And among these voters, there are more women than men. During election campaigns, the most roadshows, rallies and so on are organised in the coastal areas....
Centenarians, Skirmishes and PPE clad voters: Polling day anecdotes from Kerala
A photo essay by Sarita Mohanan Bhama At least 73.58 per cent of the total 2.74 crore voters in Kerala exercised their franchise during the recent state Assembly elections, going by a preliminary assessment conducted just before polling drew to a close at 7 pm on 6...
A quick look at some of Kerala’s women candidates
By Varsha Pillai (guest post) Kerala is one of the five states going to the polls today. This time too Kerala’s political partieshave displayed a very poor record of fielding women candidates, despite public revolts from women politicians (read more here) when the...
CPI Must Not Whitewash a Man Accused of Sexual Harassment: NWMI
It has come to the notice of the Network of Women in Media, India that CPI state secretary Kanam Rajendran has been invited as a guest at a 'Meet the Press' programme at the Thiruvananthapuram Press Club on April 1 2021 -- a programme that has been organised by a man...
Women in Kerala Politics: The Bald Truth
By Sarita Mohanan Bhama Political parties are in a never-before tailspin in Kerala, flurrying to re-tailor the “women component” in their lists of candidates for the 2021 Assembly elections. The trigger? The State Mahila Congress President, Lathika Subhash, had...
Don’t shoot off women’s shoulders
The Network of Women in Media, India, endorses the response of the Women in Cinema Collective to the Kerala state government’s ill-considered, short-lived attempt to introduce a new section to the Kerala Police Act 2011 through an ordinance, signed into law by the...
NWMI stands with WCC, condemns aggression of male journalists at recent press conference
NWMI (Network of Women in Media, India) extends its unstinting support to the Women in Cinema Collective (WCC) of the Malayalam film industry in its relentless crusade to seek justice for a Malayalam actor who was sexually assaulted in February 2017. WCC has been fighting against the apathy of the Association of Malayalam Movie Artistes (AMMA) in Kerala, that has reinstated actor Dileep who is accused of masterminding the assault on the survivor (Dileep was suspended from AMMA following his arrest last year but was arbitrarily reinstated when he got out on bail this year).
Ambika Raja of Kozhikode Awarded Second NWMI Fellowship
Ambika Raja, 22, trainee reporter based in Kozhikode, Kerala, has been awarded the Second NWMI Fellowship (2018-19), instituted to support women journalists working in challenging situations of various kinds.