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The Network of Women in Media, India (NWMI) strongly condemns the reprehensible behaviour of NewsFirst Kannada while covering New Year's Eve celebrations in Bengaluru on 31 December 2023. In the guise of disseminating news, the television channel employed a predatory...
The Network of Women in Media, India (NWMI) condemns the recent ‘coverage’ by certain Tamil news outlets of an incident at the Big Bull Lounge in Chennai. Not only was the incident misreported, women at the bar were sexually harassed, shamed and hounded by the...
By Editors The Global Media Monitoring Project (GMMP) is the largest and longest longitudinal study on gender in the world’s media. GMMP research has taken the pulse of selected indicators of gender in the news media across the world every five years since 1995,...
Media reports about sexual violence may be geared towards raising awareness and justice but the images themselves sometimes end up doing damage instead because they reinforce the stereotype of women as “easy prey”, in turn encouraging rape culture.