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UPDATE (7 September 2024): The Network of Women in Media, India (NWMI) welcomes the decision by the Washington-based Indian American Muslim Council (IAMC) to withdraw the Human Rights and Religious Freedom Journalism Award (HRRFJA) in photojournalism to Umar Altaf...
By Editors “Will there be women journalists left in Telangana in the next 10 years?” This is a serious question raised by about 60 women journalists based in Hyderabad/Telangana. These women journalists, many of whom are members of the Network of Women in Media, India...
By Helvellyn Timungpi At the NWMI meeting in Mumbai, February 2024. Photo courtesy: Supriya Unni Nair Helvellyn Timungpi from Diphu, recipient of the Sixth NWMI Fellowship for Women Journalists shares highlights of her journey over the past year. Karbi Anglong is an...
The Network of Women in Media, India (NWMI) strongly condemns the reprehensible online harassment and derogatory comments directed at Telugu television journalist Haseena Shaik via the social media platforms affiliated with a prominent political party in Andhra...
The Network of Women in Media, India is shocked at the disparaging remarks made by the Tamil Nadu President of the Bharatiya Janata Party, Mr K Annamalai, to a woman journalist in Coimbatore, Tamil Nadu, during a press meet on October 1. Responding to her question on...
The Network of Women in Media, India (NWMI) strongly condemns the incessant online harassment and abuse of Hyderabad-based journalist Thulasi Chandu, which amounts to a hate campaign against her and includes threats of rape and murder. The police has not taken action...
The Network of Women in Media, India (NWMI) notes with distress the accounts about journalists Shubhangi Misra and Manisha Mondal of The Print being molested on 30th May while on assignment covering the protest in Haridwar by India’s renowned wrestlers against sexual...
NWMI Patna Declaration In the wake of increasing attacks on the freedom of the media in India, the NWMI’s 17th National Meeting (27-29 January 2023) in Patna, Bihar, calls upon journalists, media workers and the public to stand up for press freedom, ethical...
Despite restrictions, diktats and threats, Afghan women journalists continue to work. Guest Post contribution by Afghan journalist A Khan A With the Taliban in power in Afghanistan since August 2021, the media has been hit hardest, and a new and painful chapter has...
We, at the Network of Women in Media, India (NWMI), are shocked and angry at the incessant online attacks against women journalists, especially those from minority and marginalised communities who are outspoken about the plight of these groups.
By Editors What were the earliest Hindi women’s magazines like, and what role did they play in women’s lives? What do female political journalists in India have to say about their profession? Where does India stand on gender balance in the media? The latest edition of...
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...
By Editors Transcript from a recording of Afghan journalist Makia, who talks of her work and life in Afghanistan, and what the Taliban takeover has meant for the media community in the country. Makia is among the lucky ones to have made an escape, first to Pakistan,...
By Editors Transcript from a recording of Zenab*, a 25-year old reporter and presenter with Afghanistan International Radio and TV. After Afghanistan fell to the Taliban, she left for Turkey with three family members. Others in her family are still in Kabul,...
The Network of Women in Media, India (NWMI) is deeply disturbed at the incessant onslaught of threats received by filmmaker Leena Manimekalai and deplores attempts to threaten journalists reporting on her sexual harassment case. Leena Manimekalai has been waging a...
“I want to show the Taliban and their allies that women never accept defeat. Women have always been and will always be with us. With the support of committed women from other countries, we will once again strive to achieve the rights of Afghan women,” says...
The Network of Women in Media, India, reached out to women journalists in Afghanistan in solidarity and looked for ways to support our beleaguered colleagues trying to survive and tell their stories against immense odds. One of the most urgent needs: money. Under the banner “Journalists for Afghanistan”, the NWMI organised a fundraiser from sales of stunning photographs.
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 stands in solidarity with journalists and all other beleaguered civilians in Afghanistan, especially women, as the situation rapidly deteriorates amidst the Taliban take-over of the country. We urge the Indian government to extend...
By Annie Philip The oral history project, ‘The Moment, As She Knows It’, helmed by community organiser Gather Sisters, pieces together stories of Covid-19 as seen through the eyes of women journalists across India, several of them NWMI members. The project, conducted...