The 27th Annual Conference
WAN-IFRA India 2019
WAN-IFRA India 2019
Women in News
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Women in News panel
'Women in News' is the initiative of WAN-IFRA that aims to increase women's leadership and voice in news. It hopes to address head on the issues of women in newsrooms, in order to initiate a dialogue that aims at better gender diversity and equality in newsrooms. The panel on 18 September will discuss:
- What are the largest issues that need to be addressed regarding women in newsrooms?
- What happens when women take on decision making or leadership roles in newsrooms?
- It doesn’t begin and end with hiring and retention of women journalists – we need to bring balance to women as source and subject of stories. How do we achieve that?
- What has been the REAL impact of the #MeToo movement in newsrooms - on the rampant sexism in newsrooms? What are the HR practices, amendments to Vishakha guidelines that are needed now?
- How do we address the trolling against women journalists head on?
Panelists:
- Neha Dixit, Independent journalist
- Sandhya Ravishankar, Editor, The Lede
- Ritu Sarin, Editor, Investigations, Indian Express
Chaired by Ritu Kapur, Co-Founder & CEO, Quintillion Media, India
Please write to [email protected] for your complimentary registration.