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NWMI The Network of Women in Media, India (NWMI) is a collective that serves as a forum for women in media professions.

The Network of Women in Media, India (NWMI) is a collective that serves as a forum for women in media professions to share information and resources, exchange ideas, promote media awareness and ethics, and work for gender equality and justice within the media and society. It has emerged as a group that takes strong public positions about journalists’ rights and media ethics, while standing alongsi

de women journalists in various struggles for justice – both individual and collective. Steadily growing, with a membership of over 500 women in media professions in almost all states of the country, the network has emerged as a dynamic and credible forum for women in media in India. The NWMI is a 100% not-for-profit organisation – a voluntary, informal, non-hierarchical, participatory collective with no institutional affiliation, infrastructure or paid staff. It is entirely dependent on members’ contributions of time, energy and money. Decision-making is transparent and consensus-based, following extensive deliberation. Visit us at : www.nwmindia.org

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🔴The Network of Women in Media, India (NWMI) strongly condemns the vicious, misogynistic social-media campaign targeting...
07/09/2026

🔴The Network of Women in Media, India (NWMI) strongly condemns the vicious, misogynistic social-media campaign targeting senior journalist and Anandabazar Patrika editor Ishani Datta Ray.
Posts using her photograph and containing obscene, degrading and defamatory attacks on her character, parentage and right to belong in the country are not criticism. They are harassment intended to intimidate and silence a woman journalist.

The NWMI stands in solidarity with Ray and her colleagues. Attacks on journalists for editorial decisions are an assault on press freedom.

Read the full statement:
https://nwmindia.org/initiatives/statements/nwmi-stands-with-anandabazar-patrika-journalists/

Here is the latest InkSights by Anupama BijurIn the last week of August, jewellery brand GIVA launched its Raksha Bandha...
06/09/2026

Here is the latest InkSights by Anupama Bijur

In the last week of August, jewellery brand GIVA launched its Raksha Bandhan campaign featuring actor Kriti Sanon. What followed was outrage—mainly over the clothes Kriti was seen wearing. GIVA pulled the ad from all media, saying it did not wish to hurt people’s sentiments. But Kriti had already emerged as the unlikely hero of the controversy before GIVA’s decision.

Read the full commentary on our website - https://nwmindia.org/features/inksights/of-brands-bralettes-and-backtracking/

The Network of Women in Media, India unequivocally condemns the brutal assault on Shaheen Khan and Nafisa Khan, both jou...
05/09/2026

The Network of Women in Media, India unequivocally condemns the brutal assault on Shaheen Khan and Nafisa Khan, both journalists with 4pm News, and demands strict action against the police personnel involved.

The journalists were covering the inauguration of a new wing at the Max Hospital by Delhi Chief Minister Rekha Gupta and Union Home Minister Amit Shah on 3 September 2026 and sought to ask questions as reporters, including queries about an alleged cycle scam.

Preventing them from doing so, the police reportedly handled the two journalists roughly. They were then taken to the Saket police station, where they were beaten up. Once it was known that both of them were Muslim, the police personnel escalated their attacks, reportedly hurling religion-specific abuses at the two journalists.

The NWMI stands in solidarity with Shaheen Khan and Nafisa Khan and urges the Commissioner, Delhi Police to launch an investigation into the conduct of the police officers involved in this unacceptable behaviour. We demand that the police personnel involved in the assault be suspended pending inquiry.

Such attacks on journalists are unconstitutional and against freedom of the press, which is an essential part of freedom of expression.

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NWMI is saddened by the passing away of Gloria Steinem. A pioneering feminist and journalist, she founded the _Ms Magazi...
03/09/2026

NWMI is saddened by the passing away of Gloria Steinem. A pioneering feminist and journalist, she founded the _Ms Magazine_ and wrote extensively on issues like domestic violence, ge***al mutilation, po*******hy.

She was also a social movement organiser who spearheaded what's come to be known as second wave feminism. Gloria was the keynote speaker at NWMI's 2007 National Meeting in Bangalore.

Rest in Power, Gloria!

The Network of Women in Media in India (NWMI)'s Mumbai chapter along with the Mumbai Press Club, is organising a discuss...
22/08/2026

The Network of Women in Media in India (NWMI)'s Mumbai chapter along with the Mumbai Press Club, is organising a discussion -- the Gen Z protests and the path forward for democratic movements in India.

Joining the conversation will be Neha Bora from the All India Students Association (AISA) who participated in the Jantar Mantar protests and Rhiya Ahir, who was part of the protests at Shivaji Park.

📆 The discussion with journalists will be held on August 25, 2026 (Tuesday)

🕒 From 3 pm to 5 pm

📍At the Mumbai Press Club in Fort.

Open to all.

In another cabinet expansion in Karnataka, Chief Minister DK Shivakumar has installed an all-male cabinet with parties v...
21/08/2026

In another cabinet expansion in Karnataka, Chief Minister DK Shivakumar has installed an all-male cabinet with parties vying for the last post that is yet to be filled and is assured for a woman. It reinforces the idea that women are far from getting their due as full representatives in the corridors of power, writes Cynthia Stephen, for NWMI's Gender, Media and Election blog.

Read here: https://nwmindia.org/features/the-fight-for-the-last-berth-in-the-karnataka-cabinet/

Whether in New Delhi or Ranchi, women participants at the students’ protests have faced the worst forms of crackdown. Th...
14/08/2026

Whether in New Delhi or Ranchi, women participants at the students’ protests have faced the worst forms of crackdown. This has come from authorities and social media trolls alike. It takes the shape of threats, abuses, and physical harm. Women journalists on the ground weren’t spared either. A recent post even threatened that a woman student leader would be attacked with acid – which is a criminal offence that is cognizable and non-bailable. A woman journalist described the alleged attacks in the night she faced from the police in Ranchi. This piece in our Gender, Elections and Media section examines the price women have to pay for making their politics known.
Shruthi Manjula Mohan writes.

Link: https://nwmindia.org/features/gender-media-elections/the-swift-retribution-when-women-talk-politics/

11/08/2026

Recent posts on social media about toxic work culture in mostly male-driven newsrooms are worrisome.
NWMI believes that abuse, harassment and misogyny have no place in the newsroom. Newsroom leaders must take accountability of their practices.

Good journalism can only happen when the workplace is safe for everyone in it. It's now more imperative than ever that we build practices that draw more voices into the profession.
Towards that end, NWMI put together a document in August 2024 based on the existing problems in media workplaces that network members from across the country have flagged from personal experiences and first-hand observations.

https://nwmindia.org/initiatives/guidelines/make-it-right-nwmis-guidelines-for-safe-newsrooms/



Even as NWMI highlighted cases of sexual harassment soon after its launch in 2002, one thing became clear: media managem...
11/08/2026

Even as NWMI highlighted cases of sexual harassment soon after its launch in 2002, one thing became clear: media managements were not responsive to the issue, investing little to prevent or redress sexual harassment under their watch.
The NWMI has also been consistently flagging the need for institutional mechanisms of redress, and it is this lack that was most obvious in 2018 when disclosures of sexual harassment began to tumble out of the media closet: , said scores of women journalists, speaking out and naming their abusers on social media.

We had put together this FAQ in June 2021 as a one stop resource on sexual harassment, particularly sexual harassment at the workplace:

https://nwmindia.org/initiatives/sexual-harassment-work-faqs-sexual-harassment-at-work-an-explainer-faqs/


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