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Award-winning author KR Meera was a journalist in an earlier life. She was, in fact, the first woman journalist at the Malayala Manorama newspaper. Below is the speech she gave as the keynote speaker on 7 February 2026 at Trivandrum Club, Thiruvananthapuram, Kerala, at the 20th National Meeting of the Network of Women in Media, India. The text has been lightly edited.
The Network of Women in Media, India, welcomes the Delhi High Court's 15 July order to take down “defamatory and insinuating” articles and videos posted by a section of the news media on Dhanya Rajendran, editor and co-founder of The News Minute, and an NWMI member....
The Network of Women in Media, India (NWMI), has made a detailed submission to the Central Government regarding the proposed Broadcasting Services (Regulation) Bill 2023 that was published by the Information and Broadcasting Ministry to get feedback from the public...
Speakers at the public meeting of the NWMI’s 17th national meet fell on both ends of the spectrum—benign benefactors who believe newsrooms have achieved inclusivity and those who called out the shortcomings of the media when it comes to equal representation. It...
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...
By Quratulain Rehbar It was only some weeks after the abrogation of Article 370 that I found the place — the Kashmir Press Club. The faces at the club were unknown to me initially, but no longer so after our daily interactions. Most Kashmiri journalists who were...
The Network of Women in Media, India demands that Indian authorities stop the harassment and intimidation of women journalists based on dubious police complaints. Women journalists from minority communities (particularly Muslim) and from marginalised communities, have...
The Network of Women in Media, India (NWMI) unequivocally condemns the Enforcement Directorate (ED) raids on the New Delhi office of Newsclick and the homes of its senior journalists and officials, including owner Prabir Purkayastha and editor Pranjal, purportedly to...
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...
The Network of Women in Media, India (NWMI) expresses its deep distress at the spate of job losses, salary cuts, furloughs and closures in the media industry in the midst of the lockdown due to the Covid-19 pandemic. We also denounce the harassment and multiple cases...
Prashant Kanojia is an independent journalist, arrested by the Uttar Pradesh police for allegedly tweeting critical posts against Yogi Adityanath, the Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister. The police have claimed that the tweets -which relate to a woman making allegations about Adityanath- ‘malign the image’ of Adityanath.
The shocking and tragic assassination of Gauri Lankesh served as a grim reminder of the grave and present threats to freedom of expression in general and the dangers faced by individual journalists attempting to speak truth to power in particular. Ammu Joseph recently spoke to students in Bangalore about the implications of the murder for media freedom and independent journalism.