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The Network of Women in Media, India (NWMI), strongly protests the inclusion of MJ Akbar in the all-party delegation for international engagement in the aftermath of Operation Sindoor launched on 7 May 2025. MJ Akbar has been accused by multiple women, most of them...
By Editors All things remaining equal, it will take at least a further 67 years to close the average gender equality gap in traditional news media: Highlights from the 6th Global Media Monitoring Project (GMMP), the largest research and advocacy...
The Network of Women In Media, India (NWMI) notes with concern a lack of commitment and increasing confusion in India’s English news media regarding the coverage of sexual harassment. The latest episode is the disappearance of several articles about complaints of...
September 2019 will mark a year since the flood of revelations of sexual harassment in the Indian entertainment and media industry. At a meeting organised by the Network of Women in Media, Bangalore and the Gamana Women’s Collective at the Press Club of Bangalore on August 12, 2019.
Sexual harassment at the workplace can assume a myriad chilling and predatory forms. Siliguri-based Independent journalist Anuradha Sharma describes the decade-long stalking and telephonic abuse that she was subjected to by her senior.
In the wake of the spread of the #MeToo movement, where a number of survivors of sexual harassment have come forward to publicly name perpetrators, the Mumbai chapter of the Network of Women in Media, India (NWMI) and Mumbai Press Club convened a discussion at the Mumbai Press Club on October 24. Urvashi Sarkar reports
The Network of Women in Media, India, condemns the decision of The Wire to allow Vinod Dua, against whom sexual harassment accusations have been levelled, to use his show ‘Jan Gan Man Ki Baat: Rafale Deal and Rising Fuel Prices’ to malign the #METoo movement and mock the allegations of sexual harassment levelled against him as ‘muck’.
In the first video that was uploaded on Tuesday, October 16, Vinod Dua said the media was not asking the government questions on ‘real issues’, and was instead preoccupied with stories of “who sexually harassed whom how many years ago”.
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.