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By Geetika Mantri Suicide is the fourth leading cause for deaths of young people between 15 to 19-year-olds worldwide. This is an often-reported statistic. It is also alarmingly common to read about suicides in daily news with little to no context around it, even...
Geetika Mantri, Senior Editor of The News Minute and member, Network of Women in Media, India, won the Project SIREN Award for sensitive reportage on suicides, announced by the Centre for Mental Health and Policy at ILS, Pune, on 10 September 2021. Geetika Mantri won...
A statement by NWMI Chennai, endorsed by the rest of the network, and Tamil Nadu Women Journalists Association was sent to the editors of a Tamil daily which carried the news of the death by suicide of a young female journalist. The news item was sensationalist,...