The Prime Minister throws a tea party
IN Media Practice | 2018-08-17
Mr Vajpayee decided to invite women journalists to tea, as many as could be traced, young, old, junior, senior, and middling. The masterstroke was inviting the junior and deskbound, who would normally never see the inside of the PM’s house.
World Cup: sexism in British punditry clear for all to see
BY KATH WOODWARD|IN MEDIA PRACTICE|30/06/2018
Women have been hired to offer commentary at the men’s World Cup,
Hollywood needs more women movie executives
BY LYNDSAY DUTHIE| IN MEDIA BUSINESS |23/10/2017
More women are graduating from the world’s top film and television schools and often outperforming their male counterparts, so why are they not in positions of power equal to men,
Can transgender TV characters shape viewer attitude?
BY TRACI GILLIG and ERICA L. ROSENTHAL| IN MEDIA PRACTICE |09/08/2017
Does the visibility provided by transgender characters on entertainment television lead to greater acceptance of trans people?
Karnataka media needs lessons in sensitization
BY PUSHPA ACHANTA| IN REGIONAL MEDIA |11/07/2017
From fallacious reporting to threats, some sections of Karnataka media have made lives of two young women miserable
Roger Ailes and the Fox News disclosure
BY The Hoot’s ANALYST*| IN MEDIA BUSINESS |23/05/2017
If Fox chose to disclose that it paid $45 million over nine months to settle sexual harassment claims, including those against Ailes, it had good business reasons for doing so. ??
Truth telling from the frontlines
BY NUPUR BASU| IN MEDIA FREEDOM |11/03/2017
“Velvet Revolution” is a 57-minute international documentary which profiles women journalists who have paid a high price for speaking truth to power.
Molestation in Bangalore--how many is 'mass' ?
BY AMMU JOSEPH| IN MEDIA PRACTICE |18/01/2017
One paper coined the term and others picked up from there. A fortnight later a counter narrative was being energetically pushed out.
Encountering sexism and casteism at work
BY PUSHPA ACHANTA| IN REGIONAL MEDIA |12/01/2017
The regional media allow discrimination against women and dalits to flourish, a Network of Women in Media conference was told recently.
TV9 Kannada rides roughshod over transgenders
BY PUSHPA ACHANTA| IN MEDIA PRACTICE |12/10/2016
The channel’s insensitive depiction of transgenders has put them at greater risk of violence and hostility, angering an already vulnerable community.
BY PALLAVI BHATTACHARYA| IN MEDIA PRACTICE |27/09/2016
The film with a strong feminist message has sparked off multiple debates. But what kind of impact can it have on men and behaviour
BY SHUMA RAHA| IN OPINION |27/07/2016
The serial that tried to make a difference ran longer than any other soap but now calls it a day after eight years.
TV reporters turn crude voyeurs
BY RAKHI GHOSH| IN MEDIA PRACTICE |26/07/2016
In reporting sexual harassment in the film and TV industry, Odisha’s news channels highlighted sex-for-favours but showed insensitivity towards the victims.
BY INJI PENNU| IN DIGITAL MEDIA |21/10/2015
Some of Facebook’s policies fuel hatred against women and minorities. Time for some answers from Mark Zuckerberg,
BY CHITRANGADA CHOUDHURY| IN COMMUNITY MEDIA |25/09/2015
“The calls have stopped certainly, but the bravado with which he could threaten us despite being under arrest and being in a police station, makes us wonder what backlash we might face.” ??
Journalists regulating journalists
BY B JAYASHREE| IN MEDIA PRACTICE |25/09/2015
Wardrobe malfunction and below the belt stories (literally) about women and their clothing are not new, but this particular story triggered a chain reaction from within the media itself.
More Women In The Newsroom, A Smart Business Move
IN MEDIA BUSINESS |03/09/2015
A better gender balance in the newsroom makes for a smarter business strategy. Editor-in-Chief Emeritus of Bloomberg MATT WINKLER describes his dedicated strategy to increase the gender balance in both the newsroom and in the editorial coverage.
Fired for reporting sexual harassment
BY GEETA SESHU| IN MEDIA PRACTICE |06/08/2015
First a channel used intimidation to silence an employee’s complaints of sexual harassment, then it fired her.
IN MEDIA WATCH BRIEFS |30/04/2015
A woman journalist from a Marathi television channel was told to get up from the front-row seat she occupied at a function organised by the Swaminarayan Temple in Dadar, Mumbai to felicitate Maharashtra Chief Minister Devendra Phadnavis for bringing in a ban on beef in the state. The journalist was told..
IN MEDIA PRACTICE |16/04/2015
The Vogue My Choice video starring Deepika Padukone makes gender equality look deceptively easy.
IN MEDIA PRACTICE |10/03/2015
Since 2012, the media, perhaps out of good intentions, have over-sensationalised rape as though it is peculiar to Indian men.
IN MEDIA PRACTICE |09/02/2015
The latest incident of sexual assault has highlighted the hostile conditions in which Assamese women journalists work.
The 'witches' let down by the media
BY TERESA REHMAN| IN REGIONAL MEDIA |30/10/2014
Witch hunting is a disturbing crime against women in Assam, but the media's approach has been disappointingly simplistic and crass,
BY Kalpana Rao| IN MEDIA PRACTICE |02/10/2014
The Deepika Padukone cleavage row has exposed the TOI's belief that female celebrities are a collection of body parts.
Gender representation and empowerment in DD serials
BY ANUSHI AGARWAL, DEVI LEENA BOSE and SUSAN KOSHY| IN RESEARCH STUDIES |19/09/2014
The current study attempts to analyze the fiction content of the public service broadcaster using the canvas of gender representation and development.
Women stay away from Indian politicians online
IN MEDIA PRACTICE |02/05/2014
An analysis of some of the popular Twitter accounts of Indian politicians, political parties and journalists show that women voters do not follow them,
BY KANNAMMA RAMAN and ASHWIN PARTHASARATHY| IN SPECIAL REPORTS |07/01/2014
Women contestants in the recent Delhi polls were either totally absent from social media, or at best fringe actors.
There's section 377, and there's media
BY hoot| IN MEDIA PRACTICE |13/12/2013
Prejudiced media depictions add to the problems that communities with alternate sexuality already have. So they are organising themselves and reaching out to the media.
TOI's foot-in-mouth rape coverage
BY KALPANA SHARMA| IN MEDIA PRACTICE |25/08/2013
In its desire to give saturation coverage to such crimes, TOI led the way. But there were four oversights that ought to have been caught by alert editors.
BY ALKA GURHA|IN DIGITAL MEDIA|17/08/2013
The acerbic voices on social media are becoming the judge, jury and the executioner.
BY DHRUBA JYOTI PURKAIT| IN MEDIA PRACTICE |04/06/2013
The deafening silence in the mainstream press, even as blogs and HIV/AIDS alliance NGOs buzzed with obituaries, stood in stark contrast with the media frenzy a decade ago.
Women, popular culture and violence: joining the dots
IN MEDIA PRACTICE |01/01/2013
Music videos have become one of the most insidious offenders, shaping sexist attitudes towards women.
IN MEDIA PRACTICE|24/12/2012
The Delhi gang rape and the public protests not only triggered a storm of coverage in the Indian media but was also was covered widely in the foreign media.
BY NUPUR BASU| IN MEDIA PRACTICE |31/07/2012
The media's handling of sex workers and other marginalised communities has been patently insensitive.
IN MEDIA WATCH BRIEFS |14/07/2012
Is information and Broadcasting Minister Ambika Soni going to ask her party to demand any explanation from Himanta Biswa Sarma, the cabinet minister of the Congress Government of Assam, whose family owns the Newslive channel? The channel has been a major offender in the Guwahati live telecast of the molestation..
Privacy is a privilege of the few
BY Poornima Joshi| IN MEDIA PRACTICE |12/07/2012
What would be considered"bad taste" if the relevant personality was influential is routine in Ms Pramanik's case.
BY KALPANA SHARMA| IN OPINION |11/07/2012
The media are guilty of blindly reporting the motivated leaks by the police about Pinki Pramanik's sex.
Journalists who happen to be women
BY JAYA BHATTACHARJI| IN MEDIA PRACTICE |15/05/2012
These essays are a brilliant mapping of the range of issues that have been tackled and publicised by women journalists over three decades.
Making WAVEs with video-blogging
IN MEDIA PRACTICE |16/12/2011
A unique project has transformed the lives of a group of women who were trained and encouraged to voice their perspective on issues that matter to them.
IN MEDIA PRACTICE |07/12/2011
These remarkable women have transcended all barriers of established norms, traditional restrictions, and societal conditions to reach their destination.
Sexist rage against reality show anchor
IN MEDIA PRACTICE|25/08/2011
The ridiculing of a reality show anchor by a well known Malayalam film comedian has set the net world abuzz.
BY Geeta Seshu|IN MEDIA PRACTICE|13/07/2011
Reporters in the field experience a ‘low-level’ sexual abuse that they often ignore, not wishing to jeopardise a good assignment or be treated differently from their male colleagues
BY Jaya Bhattacharji Rose| IN MEDIA PRACTICE |21/05/2011
The book is a useful reference guide that should be mandatory reading for all associated with journalism. It would, however, have carried more weight with contributions from men.
Reporting as if gender matters
IN MEDIA PRACTICE |27/07/2010
The Hoot excerpts a passage from Kalpana Sharma’s edited volume Missing: Half the Story: Journalism as if Gender Matters.
More women journos does not mean more gender awareness
IN MEDIA PRACTICE |07/03/2010
Young Indian women are taking to journalism in droves, these numbers do not necessarily translate into gender awareness.
Is this what women want to read?
IN MEDIA PRACTICE |06/06/2008
Does a woman’s magazine only have to be about jewellery, lingerie, cosmetics, cooking and sex?
IN MEDIA PRACTICE |07/12/2007
Two recent anti-trafficking campaigns by MTV and the UN Office on Drugs and Crime perpetuate the image of the sex worker as the agency-less trafficked woman,
The perils of becoming a good story
BY Hemangini| IN MEDIA PRACTICE |01/11/2006
Press coverage began with interest and enthusiasm but increasingly the Blank Noise Project carries implicitly the baggage of the media that has covered it.
A gender sensitive code from Pakistan
IN MEDIA PRACTICE |07/03/2005
A comprehensive bi-lingual code of ethics from Pakistan specifies guidelines to ensure a positive and fair portrayal of gender issues in the print media.
BY Manjula Lal| IN MEDIA PRACTICE |11/12/2004
The common woman has good reason not to get worked up about the issue of violence against women. A response to Ammu Joseph`s article.
BY Ammu Joseph| IN MEDIA PRACTICE |08/12/2004
The challenge before the media is to move beyond clubbing what happens to women with routine crime briefs, on the one hand, and sensational stories, on the other, to cover "the greatest human rights scandal of our times".
Southern Africa strikes a blow for gender equality
BY Ammu Joseph| IN MEDIA PRACTICE |26/10/2004
The Gender and Media summit marked the culmination of the first phase of a remarkable process that has been under way in southern Africa over the past two years.
BY Krithika Ramalingam| IN MEDIA PRACTICE |15/09/2004
A libelous and judgmental Tamil press repeatedly crosses the line in reporting on women in the dock.
Homosexual victim exposes the Delhi press
IN MEDIA PRACTICE |08/09/2004
On muster rolls in the Hindi heartland
BY Akhileshwari| IN MEDIA PRACTICE |15/07/2004
Telugu and Kannada journalism have at least a 30-year history of recruiting women journalists even if they have been very few.
Language media vs English media
BY R. Akhileshwari| IN MEDIA PRACTICE |12/07/2004
Women journalists are worse off in the regional language media compared to those in the English press
On muster rolls in the Hindi heartland
BY Sushmita Malaviya| IN MEDIA PRACTICE |12/07/2004
IN MEDIA PRACTICE |04/03/2005
In Madhya Pradesh and Chhattisgarh the concept of women journalists with permanent jobs still does not exist.
Sexual harassment in newspapers
BY Pamela Bhagat| IN MEDIA PRACTICE |07/07/2004
BY Rajashri Dasgupta| IN MEDIA PRACTICE |04/07/2004
Journalists debate media stereotyping
BY Dhakal| IN MEDIA PRACTICE |03/07/2004
Women activists and experts concurred that the portrayal of women is similar across South Asia.
Indian sex workers – shifting portrayal
BY shahla raza| IN MEDIA PRACTICE |15/03/2004
Malayala Manorama exposes Kerala’s men
BY jacob| IN MEDIA PRACTICE |15/02/2004
Six women reporters of the paper travelled across the state unescorted, to experience at first hand the safety and security that God’s Own Country was offering them.
BY Ammu Joseph| IN MEDIA PRACTICE |16/04/2002
The Media Foundation Which Runs The Hoot Has Published:Women in Journalism Making News
BY Ammu Joseph| IN MEDIA PRACTICE |11/04/2002
