Wall of Shame: Watch What You Say
By Editors As we begin the 10th anniversary edition of the NWMI’s Gender, Media and Elections initiative, launched in April 2014, we bring you a watchlist that provides evidence of the need to continue to keep an eye on gender-related aspects of electoral...
Looking Back: Media Coverage of 1996 Miss World pageant in India
As India played host to Miss World this month, NWMI members Ammu Joseph and Gita Aravamudan look back at the controversy created during the beauty pageant and media coverage of it, when it was held in India for the first time in 1996. AMMU JOSEPH While I was working...
Gender should be used as a way of seeing the world, says Nishita Jha
NWMI’s Nishita Jha joins Buzzfeed as its new global women’s rights and gender reporter. In this interview with Columbia Journalism Review, she talks about how she plans to push coverage beyond the woman as victim or victor, and look at the way big issues affect women and the way that women interact with the world.