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Media |
- Women photographers: Carving a niche
- Women journalists call for public debate on broadcast bill and content code
- Bills, Codes and Women by Ammu Joseph
- Muzzling the media in Manipur
- 'Journalists for Democracy' call for balanced reporting of quota issue by Pankaj Yadav, New Kerala
- India shining meets the great depression by P. Sainath, India Together
- The Ethics of Cherry Picking: The dilemma of where you live, work and play!!!, by Kumi Naidoo, CIVICUS Secretary-General
- Change in CIVICUS Leadership, by Kumi Naidoo, CIVICUS Secretary-General
- Three Indians get Developing Asia Journalism Awards, The Hindu.
- The slippery slope of stings by Vir Sanghvi, The Hindustan Times
- Communication as if catastrophes mattered by Satya Sivaraman, Indiadisasters
- Saviour waves by Sajan Venniyoor, Indiadisasters
- Sting a song of six-pence by Barkha Dutt, Hindustan Times (Also read: Bimar or Bimaru MP by Sagarika Ghose, Hindustan Times)
- Whither journalism? by M.V.Kamath, Afternoon
- Manna from heaven by Sevanti Ninan, The Hindu
- Media ethics getting complex by N. Bhaskara Rao, The Tribune
- Profiles of the winners of the fifth CSE media fellowship, Media Resource Centre
- Some uncomfortable questions by Kalpana Sharma, The Hindu
- News You Can Use, Communication and Development and Learning
- Where have all the children gone? by Ammu Joseph, India Together
- Report on Indian magazine summit 2005, Exchange4media
- Media forgets the female face of tsunami by Deepa Kandaswamy, Women's eNews
- The grey area of press privilege by Dasu Krishnamoorty, The Hoot
- Missing victims by Mannika Chopra, The Hoot
- Likeminded bleating by Darius Nakhoonwala, The Hoot
- One-sided analysis by Darius Nakhoonwala, The Hoot
- Rape coverage is tricky by Mannika Chopra, The Hoot.
- New law could transform state-citizen equation by Aruna Roy and Nikhil Dey, The Times of India.
- The medium, the message, and the masses by Ammu Joseph.
- How a GM debate eludes the Indian media by Keya Acharya.
- RTI amendments imply more government control by Venkatesh Nayak and Charmaine Rodrigues, The Hoot.
- To kill a meddling journalist: why not —it’s risk free by Rodney Pinder, The Hoot
- The Japanese visit by Darius Nakhoonwala, The Hoot
- Reporting Parliament: just what do we report? by N P Chekkutty, The Hoot
- Oh journalism, where is thy sting? by Dipankar Gupta, The Hoot
- Exploring the human angle by Mannika Chopra, The Hoot
- The poverty of comment by Darius Nakhoonwala, The Hoot
- The UN's top ten under-reported stories of the year 2005
- Internews launches project to ameliorate reporting on HIV/AIDS issues by women journalists.
- DD, AIR asked to cut down social broadcasts by Deepshikha Ghosh, The Hoot
- Media war imminent in Mumbai by Sumeet Chatterjee, The Hoot
- Of holes in socks” and blank newspapers by Laxmi Murthy, Humanscape
- Oxfam report on Tsunami's impact on women
- Media, masses, government, all ignore rural issues, The Hoot
- Media with a message by Ammu Joseph, India Together
- Media’s coverage of International affairs —Part II by Aman Malik, The Hoot ( Also read Part I )
- Role of the media in disaster management by Usha Rajeev
- Gender, media and tsunamis by Ammu Joseph, India together
- What drives `mainstream' media's response to the North East? by Rupa Chinai, The hoot
- Where have all the science writers gone? by Frederick Noronha, The Hoot
- Mediaah.bolgspot.com hits it off with readers, agencyfaqs!
- Indian media must go global: PM, The Hoot
- Media intrusions into aboriginal reserves, The hoot
- Can BBC, CNN get away with this corpse show in 'sensitive' Manhattan? by Ashok Mallik, The Indian Express ( Also read: Is the Indian Express guilty of the same double standards that it criticizes in the western media?)
- For a little less hysteria, little more information by Shailaja Bajpai, The Indian Express
- Patel defends decision on photographs, The Hoot
- The tsunami blog by Sevanti Ninan
- Karan Thapar wins two Asian television awards, The Hindu
- Press Council asks media to observe restraint in the MMS case, The Hindustan Times
- Censorship or self regulation? by Seema Pherwani, Indiantelevision
- A critical look at the scenario, Indiantelevision
- Don't take news at face value by M.V.Kamath, Afternoon
- Award for excellence in business journalism, The Hindu
- CSE film nominated for international green award once again
- A sad lesson, The Hoot
- IPI honour for Prannoy Roy by Gaurav Vivek Bhatnagar, The Hindu
- Tri-continental film festival, Dec 2004
- Counsel for the council by Ammu Joseph, India Together
- Several journalists injured in police action, The Hindu
- Ending Violence Against Women: Achievements and Emerging challenges since beijing
- NWMI protests attacks on press in Kerala
- Indymedia launches special election coverage, Democracy Now!
- When Manmohan met Musharraf, M.V.Kamath, Afternoon.
- First to third world? by Sevanti Ninan, The Hindu
- Gudiya's "choice"
- Threat to cybercafes, Reporters without borders
- Homosexual victim exposes Delhi press, by Aniruddha Dutta, The Hoot
- Chennai programme gets an award from Prime Point Foundation
- Press Council has no teeth, by M.V.Kamath, The Afternoon
- Natwar says we will relax visas for Pak press; ditto, Kasuri by Jyoti Malhotra, The Indian Express
- Media council to replace Press Council of India, Navhind Times
- Media has no sense of history by M.V.Kamath, The Afternoon
- Outfoxed? by Sevanti Ninan, The Hindu
- Unprofessional print media by M.V.Kamath, The Afternoon
- Sex: the scene is sickening by M.V.Kamath, The Afternoon
- A nation's memories by C.S. Lakshmi, The Hindu
- Media as peacemaker by Sevanthi Ninan, The Hindu
- Your Excellency, is this really a Kalamity? by Diptosh Majumdar, The Indian Express
- Media audit on forced displacement in Assam by Bhupen Sarmah and Ratna Bharali, wacc.org.uk
- Contracts make journalists insecure by Usha Rai, The Tribune
- The feel good factor: a government-media joint venture, Frontlineonnet
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- Women's views/voices at the US National Conference on Media Reform
- A powerful media can stop a war Jane Fonda, Alternet
- Poster women, a Zubaan project.
- Understanding the levels of empowerment of women in the workplace in India, IFJ
- Dalit woman to address UN session by Prabhakar Kumar, CNN-IBN
- Tsunami women survivors turned leaders, from Disasterwatch
- India: done undone: assessing tsunami efforts— a women's perspective [780 Kb]
- 25 yrs after rape, murder, village remembers journalist, Newswatch India
- Good girls don't drink by Kalpana Sharma, www.indiatogether.org
- Media forgets the female face of tsunami by Deepa Kandaswamy, Women's eNews
- One-sided analysis by Darius Nakhoonwala, The Hoot
- 'Reality' rape by Kalpana Sharma, The Hindu (Also read: Scandal in God's own country by Ammu Joseph)
- Media with a message by Ammu Joseph, India Together
- The darkside of Indian homes, Teresa Barat, India Together
- The spread of the salwar by Ramachandra Guha, The Hindu
- The subversive Ms Chadha by Amrita Shah, The Indian Express
- Women on top by Teresa Rehman, The Telegraph
- A woman is a woman is a woman by Zoya Hasan and Ritu Menon, The Indian Express
- The beti-maru mindset by Pamela Philipose, The Indian Express
- The General in a sari by Archana Masih, The Indian Express
- Obscuring reality by Kalpana Sharma, The Hindu
- Women on TV by Rashme Sehgal, Infochangeindia
- Manorama Devi. Who's that? by Miranda Yambem, The Indian Express
- Delhi and the Northeast: a bridge too far? by Debananda Singh Ningthoujam, The Indian Express
- Social worker Banoo Coyaji passes away by Manjiri Madhav Damle, The Times Of India
- Jaya TV launches new women centric serials by Abitha.G, Exchange4media
- How Kerala behaves with women by Sreedevi Jacob, Countercurrents
- First woman editor of a financial daily, Exchange4media
- Sexual harassment in newspapers, The Hoot
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- Media rules by T.N.Ninan, Business Standard
- Block buster (registration required to access the link), Businessworld
- HT Media plans to tap domestic capital markets; pre-sells seven per cent to Citicorp
- Deccan Chronicle seeks foreign investment, Indian Media Observer
- Indian government allows 100% foreign investment, Indian Media Observer
- Ministers propose facsimile editions of foreign publications, Hindustantimes.com
- Foreign money capped at 26% in media.
- The business channel boom by M.Narasingh Rao, The Hoot
- Award for excellence in business journalism, The Hindu
- NDTV makes Murdoch's Star wane in India by Randeep Ramesh and Sanjay Jha, The Guardian
- New business channel from NDTV, by Joydeep Ray, Business Standard
- Match of the season by Surajeet Das Gupta, Business Standard. Also see cricket's new czar
- Policy initiatives to propel newspaper growth in India by Nivedita Mookerji, The Financial Express
- How NDTV turned around by Shuchi Bansal, Rediff
- McMedia and market jihad, The Hindu
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- Muscling in on the media Reporters Without Borders
- Journalists in 2010 - targets and bargaining chips Reporters Without Borders
- The shame of family films : why family films are so sexist
- Ann Jones on "War Is Not Over When It’s Over: Women and the Unseen Consequences of Conflict" Democracy Now!
- Bill Moyers: "Big media is ravenous. It never gets enough. Always wants more. And it will stop at nothing to get it. These conglomerates are an empire, and they are imperial." Democracy Now!
- Women's views/voices at the US National Conference on Media Reform
- A powerful media can stop a war Jane Fonda, Alternet
- South Asia Media Monitor
- Sri Lanka journalists in protest
- Sri Lanka journalists take to street seeking media freedom
- The byline gender gap by Ann Friedman, Alternet
- Iranian journalist banned over AIDS article, Newswatch
- Ten stories that desperately need to be told by Thalif Deen, IPS News
- Asian press still shackled, media watchdog says, INQ7.net
- Regional report highlights resistance to media
restrictions, Ijnet.org - Lebanese TV anchor wins Press Freedom Prize, Asia-Pacific Broadcasting Union
- Sorting out the future of news, Washingtonpost.com
- Bangladesh: ensure security of journos, AsiaMedia
- Media and the LTTE, LankaWeb News
- Nobel Prize laureate Amartya Sen on press freedom, The Sofia Echo
- Sri Lankan women journalists call for gender equity in media by Laxmi Murthy
- Mission statement by international organisations about freedom of expression in Nepal, IFJ-Asia
- Thaksin out of step with democratic values, says IFJ, IFJ-Asia
- IFJ renews calls for Zhao Yan's release after all charges were dropped, IFJ-Asia
- UN human rights experts call for dialogue in wake of cartoon controversy, UN News Centre
- Three cheers for Gutenberg - and long live dead trees by Simon Jenkins, The Guardian
- Telling it like it isn't by Robert Fisk, Los Angles Times
- Something to hide by Onnesha Roychoudhuri, Alternet
- Journalists should expose secrets, not conceal them by Norman Solomon, CounterPunch
- Community newspapers in Jaffna and conflict sensitive journalism by Dr. I. Arul Aram , PeaceJournalism
- Kabul High court allows release of journalist Ali Mohaqiq Nasab, Reporters Without Borders
- SAJA reporting fellowships, South Asian Journalists Organisation (SAJA)
- Reality and spin in the media by Joshua Holland, Alternet
- GMMP under scrutiny from World Association for Christian Communication
- Why did you want to bomb me, Mr Bush and Mr Blair?, by Wadah Khanfar, Guardian Unlimited
- Al Jazeera in the Crosshairs: Did Bush Really Want to Bomb the Arabic TV Network's Headquarters in 2004?, Democracy Now!
- Poverty missing from the news agenda, by Diana Cariboni, ipsnews.net
- Media awareness drive, saquake.org
- North Pakistan’s quake-hit media, by Adnan Rehmat
- No joy in mudville: is journalism striking out? by Denny Wilkins, Editor&Publisher
- Black day for the blue pencil by Blake Morrison, Guardian Unlimited
- Jennings exemplified the anchor as leader by Scott Libin, Poynter Online
- Los Angeles Times issues ethics, guidelines for reporters, editors, Los Angeles Times
- Media for democracy —the challenge in Asia, from IFJ-Asia. Also read this report.
- Protecting whistleblowers or shielding government wrongdoing? US Supreme Court on journalists and anonymous sources. Democracy Now! examines the supreme court ruling vis-a-vis the issues of anonymity and revealing sources.
- Threats to public media in US. Democracy Now! talks to Bill Moyers on the issue.( Also read : DD, AIR asked to cut down social broadcasts by Deepshikha Ghosh, The Hoot )
- "I will go on until I have even the slightest hope of justice." Democracy Now! speaks to Pakistan rape survivor Mukhtaran Mai.
- Absurdistan by Beena Sarawar, www.jang.com.
- MOSAIC: world news from West Asia, Democracy Now! profiles the programme which gives a West Asian view of world news.
- Multi-Media tune-out: ignoring female expertise, by Sheila Gibbons, WomensENews.
- Lies that cost lives from Democracy Now!
- The gender gap: women are still missing as sources for journalists, from journalism.org.
- Unseen pictures, untold stories: how the U.S. press has sanitized the war in Iraq, from Democracy Now!
- Cowardice in journalism award for Newsweek - Goebbels award for Condi by Greg Palast.
- Giuliana Sgrena blasts U.S. cover up, calls for U.S. and Italy to leave Iraq, from Democracy Now!
- State propaganda: how government agencies produce hundreds of pre-packaged TV segments the media runs as news, from Democracy Now!Study: media self-censored on Iraq by Joe Strupp, Alternet
- U.S. soldiers accused of raping Iraqi women escape prosecution, from Democracy Now!
- Press freedom takes a battering in Pakistan, reports IFJ
- Supression of press freedom in Nepal reports IFJ. (. PDF 43 KB)
- Arrests, confiscations, threats the crackdown continues.RSF reports on Nepal
- Phil Donahue: "We have an emergency in the media and we have to fix it", Democracy Now!
- On Fox News, no shortage of opinion, study finds, by Howard Kurtz, The Washington Post
- Pulitzer Prize-Winning Journalist Laurie Garrett Quits Newsday: "When You See News As a Product...It's Impossible To Really Serve Democracy", Amy Goodman interviews Laurie Garrett, Democracy Now!
- Eleven steps to safeguard press freedom, RSF
- IFJ report highlights the media's role in tsunami relief, IFEX
- Who rules the internet? Understanding ICANN, Panos
- Royal takeover of Nepal: drastic and ill-advised by Kanak Mani Dixit
- Journalist trade unionists call for restoration of democracy in Nepal
- WAN confirms decade-high death toll for journalists, IFEX
- More on the libel case against the Algerian journalist Salima Tlemçani and others
- Journalists from different parts of the world petition against the arrest of an Algerian journalist
- RSF seeks nominations for best free expression blog, IFEX
- Appeal to support tsunami-hit journalists, Daily News
- Tsunami: unprecedented Western media coverage by Mannika Chopra, The hoot
- Susan Sontag, author and activist,dies at 71, Truthout
- Sontag and tsunami, by Rebecca Solnit, Progressive News Death toll for journalists highest in decade , CPJ
- Building progressive media, Robert Parry, Consortium News
- Barbara Ehrenreich wins $100,000 Puffin/Nation Prize, Common Dreams
- East Asia and Middle East have worst press freedom records, Reporters Sans Frontiers
- Noam Chomsky on United States election and Iraq, Democracy Now!
- Declaration in support of the Indymedia network and against the seizure of its servers
- Lessons from Africa by Ammu Joseph
- Faith and Fear by Vandita Mishra, The Indian Express
- Working on the largest encyclopedia in the world by Andrew Lih
- When big media turns right by Nikki Finke, Alternet
- Journalists sign up to new global campaign to promote safety and security of journalists
- Background of GEM
- Opening of the first Southern African Gender and Media
Summit - First Southern African Gender and Media Awards presented in
Johannesburg - Mauritius: Where are the women politicians?
- Campaign to ratify protocol on women’s rights in the
African Union - Global Media Monitoring Project now in four languages and 100 countries
- Zimbabwe's NGO Bill: a blow to women's participation in governance
- Gender and media network calls on leaders to account for low female participation.
- Masculinity: Breaking the shackles of tradition
- Challenge to SADC’s leaders issued at closing of Gender and Media Summit
- Disney CEO will step down, The Financial Express
- Gender and media summit, Gender Links
- I will survive ...or atleast be delayed, by Dave Barry, Miami Herald
- Reuters gets bad news from the union, by Parvathy Ullatil, Rediff
- CPJ condemns detention of online publishers, from Wfafi
- Into the media memory hole by Ian Williams, AlterNet
- Pass the mic by Mark Anthony Neal, AlterNet
- The Iraqi fifth column by Raghav Gupta, The Indian Express
- Four missiles, 14 deaths and the crisis of information in Baghdad by Robert Fisk, The Independent
- Whither media reform? by Danny Schechter, AlterNet
- Terror stalks journalists in the East, Reporters without Borders publishes an investigative report on threats plaguing the press
- Daniel Pearl killing —open letter to president Pervez Musharraf,Reporters Without Borders
- "OutFoxed": how Rupert Murdoch is destroying American journalism, Alternet
- Australian journalist reported missing in Afghanistan, CPJ
- Journalist murdered in Bangladesh, CPJ
- Global Media Monitoring Project 2005
- U.S. military tried to censor coverage of Saddam Hearing by Robert Fisk, Truthout
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- Ann Jones on "War Is Not Over When It’s Over: Women and the Unseen Consequences of Conflict" Democracy Now!
- Women war reporters hide sexual abuse to keep on getting work
- Losing our feminist leaders by Jessica Valenti, Alternet
- Betty Friedan 1921-2006: Women's rights pioneer helped launch modern-day feminist movement, Democracy Now!
- Betty Friedan, Mapmaker by Alida Brill, Alternet ( Also read: Playwright Wendy Wasserstein dies by Michael Kuchwara, Yahoo News and Coretta Scott King's Gandhian ideals by Shelia M. Poole, The Hindu)
- In Norway, a woman's place is in the boardroom by Gwladys Fouché and Jill Treanor, Guardian Unlimited
- Top ten news stories for women in 2005, Newswatch India
- Iraqi women, raising their voices by Hannah Seligson, Alternet
- CHINA: Number of women journalists on rise in China, from www.asiamedia.ucla.edu
- Pakistan journalist rushes to ease quake's toll by Khadeeja Balkhi, Women's eNews
- More women in the media but gender bias persists, by Moses Magadza
- Sgrena rejects war glory while telling its story by Aunohita Mojumdar, WeNews
- After CNN, Woodruff keeps eye on media diversity by Jennifer Friedlin, WeNews
- Judith Miller, the Fourth Estate, and the Warfare State by Norman Solomon, Truthout
- 'NY Times' publishes devastating Judith Miller article, raising serious questions while revealing newsroom controversy by Greg Mitchell, Editor and Publisher, Truthout
- Should The New York Times fire Judith Miller and apologize to readers?, Democracy Now!
- Hurricane coverage blew open image of women, Women's eNews
- Release a relief, but CPJ troubled by U.S. message in Miller case, CPJ
- Jailed reporter is distanced from news, not elite visitors by By Carol D. Leonnig, Washington Post
- Sawyer, Vargas in running for anchor's chair by Juliette Terzieff , Women's eNews
- September 1968: women protest Miss America, Women's eNews
- Women are still missing as sources for journalists, Newswatch India
- US behind times in covering women's sports, Newswatch India
- Three Women, Palestinian Christian, Muslim and Israeli Jew on Life Under Occupation, Democracy Now!
- Girls Inc. media literacy in United States, The Communication Initiative
- 1000 women for the Nobel Peace Prize 2005, LACWHN
- South Asian woman journalist to host New York's radical radio show.
- On Turkish TV, women face life and death by Yigal Schliefer, WomensEnews.
- Women without a clue by Lakshmi Chaudhry, Alternet
- Israeli journalist Amira Hass reflects on reporting under occupation, from Democracy Now!
- AIDS Pandemic stalks women, Alternet
- Women's opinions also missing on television, FAIR
- Celebrating women as custodians of the environment by Dr. Klaus Toepfer, Truthout
- Women's voices rise as Rwanda reinvents itself by Marc Lacey, The New York Times
- Stopping violence against women —not just for women anymore, North County Times
- Threat to Algerian journalist
- Susan Sontag, author and activist, dies at 71, Truthout
- Susan Sontag, 1933-2004, Democracy Now
- Lady Reporter by Beena Sarwar, The News-Jang Group
- In TV anchorland, time stands still for women by Caryl Rivers, Women's enews
- AIDS Pandemic stalks women, Alternet
- Not a minute more: ending violence against women
- Daughter of 2004 Nobel Peace Prize winner Wangari Maathai discusses her mother, Kenya and the environment, Democracy Now
- Female muslim comics twist bias into comic jabs by Megan Cossey, Women's eNews
- Women's eye on peace: Photography exhibition, International Women's Development Agency
- The W effect: Bush's war on women from Democracy Now
- Muting the women's march by Julie Hollar, Fair
- In praise of unruly women by Arianna Huffington, Ariannaonline.com
- New York film festival showcases women's work by Carla Thompson, Women's eNews
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- Geena Davis: When gender equality is no longer a fairy tale, from Summitdaily.com
- The byline gender gap by Ann Friedman, Alternet
- Women and Journalism: Should gel well, Central Chronicle
- Nepali media workplaces deemed gender insensitive, nepalnews.com
- Coretta Scott King and the media: Martin's wife, Who makes the news?
- Still a man's world when it comes to the media by Colleen Lowe Morna, The Sunday Independent
- Women's lowly news status is a global insult by Sheila Gibbons, Women's eNews
- Editing them out by Ammu Joseph, The Hindustan Times [.PDF 266 KB]
- Who Makes the News? The Global Media Monitoring Project 2005
- The newsroom is not a safe place for women journalists by Loveness Jambaya, Gender Links
- Double discrimination by Damyanti Sridharan, Indiadisasters
- One by one, women count bylines by Hannah Selingson, Women's eNews
- Sudan: Dealing with gender violence with music, allAfrica
- Still the daily male by Lynn Barber, The Observer
- Rolodex of female pundits is ready for spin, by Sheila Gibbons, Women's eNews
- Gender and Millennium Development Goals
- Hungarian women pushes limits of UN gender pact by Bojana Stoparic, Women's eNews
- How the media’s dinner guest” became Deputy President by Colleen Lowe Morna
- For women in media, the glass ceiling is as high as ever by Bongiwe Zwane
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