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The NWMI demands the immediate cessation of threats and intimidatory tactics from all state and non-state agents including those associated with the Communist Party of India (Maoist), that pressurise journalists and others who are vulnerable to such attempts at intimidation.
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...
The NWMI strongly objects to the statement issued by the Sabarimala Karma Samithi on November 3, 2018, to editors and decision-makers in the news media, requesting them to refrain from deputing women journalists of a particular age group to Sabarimala to cover the reopening of the temple for a special puja on Monday (November 5). We believe this is an unjustified and unacceptable interference in the functioning of the media and an unfair obstacle in the way of journalists –who happen to be women– who wish to cover an important story of public interest.
The attacks on journalists and press photographers covering the panchayat poll process in West Bengal is reprehensible. Such intimidation and violence adversely impacts free and fair reporting of the electoral process, and also impinges on the public’s right to know, says the NWMI
NWMI strongly condemns the physical violence meted out to journalists covering a padyatra (long march) by students and teachers of the Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU) in New Delhi on March 23 and demands strict action against the perpetrators.
What If…? You are targeted by security forces, shot at, kidnapped, or have to continue live reporting while a person is killed right beside you? It is a possibility for any woman journalist who reports in conflict zones, whether it is an official war or an internal conflict which is not recognised as a war. The International Association of Women in Radio and Television has launched a new handbook which helps female reporters plan to avoid such eventualities.
The Bangalore Literature Festival 2017 session on the online – often sexual – harassment of women journalists was held on October 28, 2017. The session was planned in the aftermath of the murder of Gauri Lankesh, who was herself a target of online abuse until the violence moved from the virtual world into the real one and silenced her forever. Nidhi Razdan (NDTV) and NWMI members Sindhu Sooryakumar (Asianet) and Laxmi Murthy (International Federation of Journalists) participated in the panel discussion moderated by Ammu Joseph (independent journalist and network member). The experiences of online abuse of the fourth panellist, network member Dhanya Rajendran (The Newsminute) were shared in absentia. The panellists talked about their own experiences of trolling and other forms of harassment as well as about the implications of the increasingly frequent and intense targeting of female media professionals – on the Internet, on the phone and even in real life – not just for themselves (at the personal and professional levels) but for democracy and freedom of expression.
The Network of Women in Media in India stands in solidarity with the editors of Coimbatore-based website The Covai Post who have been receiving death threats for a story on their website and condemns the harassment of Vidyashree Dharmaraj and AR Meyammai.
Over the past week, the editors of The Covai Post, Vidyashree Dharmaraj and AR Meyammai, have been at the receiving end of death threats and harassment for a story on their website, titled ‘Girls in puberty stage paraded half-naked, offered to deity for a fortnight’, published on September 24, 2017
Women journalists routinely face gender-based violence in the workplace and the field, online and offline, and there has been an increase in this violence in recent years. This report from the UN secretary general describes the current situation pertaining to women journalists, sets out the applicable international law, provides an account of initiatives in this area, and suggests ways to strengthening the safety of women journalists.
By Laxmi Murthy On June 10, 2017, the Bangalore chapter of the Network of Women in the Media-India felicitated Gita Aravamudan and Sakuntala Narasimhan on their completion of 50 years each in the field of journalism. Feisty and brimming with passion for her craft,...
The Network of Women in Media, India, would like to express solidarity with the brave radio journalists of Roshani, the all-women radio and TV station that was the voice of the city of Kunduz in Afghanistan and was destroyed by the Taliban in the early hours of September 28.
“The commoner in Bangladesh is not a fundamentalist,” says journalist and author Urmi Rahman
By Renu Ramanathan On 14 August 2005 seven NWMI members met in Kochi, Ernakulam. The meeting discussed: The proposal to hold joint programmes with Chetana Media Institute, Thrissur for screenings/discussions in Kochi and other centres The possibility of organising...