SAMSN Blog
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24 Mar 2017
Stand by and support other women journalists
By Dhanya Rajendran
Dhanya Rajendran is co-founder and editor-in-chief of The News Minute, a digital news platform reporting and writing on issues in India, with a specific focus on the five southern states. She is the former bureau chief, South India, for Times Now tel...
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24 Mar 2017
Awareness and collective countering key to fight online harassment
By Dilrukshi Handunnetti
Dilrukshi Handunnetti is consultant editor at the Daily and Weekend Express, the first international newspaper published from Colombo, Sri Lanka. She is also the Co-convener of the South Asian Women in Media, Sri Lanka. What are you experiences with...
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17 Mar 2017
Trolling is stoppable
By Laxmi Murthy
Understanding trolling behaviour holds to clue to stopping it. Trolling and online abuse is today an ugly reality of the online space. The phenomenal opening up of opportunities to reach out and disseminate news and opinions online is accompanied by ...
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16 Mar 2017
I tweet but am very selective and very careful
By Zofeen Ibrahim
If technology has made it easier to harass women in general and journalists in particular, it has also given women space to break the silence and talk about it. They will find they have a whole army behind them to back. For example, the #shoutingback...
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08 Mar 2017
Neha Dixit: “Sexually Explicit Abuses Land in my Inbox”
By Neha Dixit
In this extract from her hard-hitting speech* delivered while accepting the Chameli Devi Award for Outstanding Woman Journalist for 2016, Neha Dixit describes how she has been harassed by trolls over the years. After being called ‘antinational’ f...
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03 Mar 2017
Sri Lanka’s RTI Law: Will the Government ‘Walk the Talk’?
By Nalaka Gunawardene
Sri Lanka’s new Right to Information (RTI) Law, adopted through a rare Parliamentary consensus in June 2016, became fully operational on 3 February 2017. From that day on, the island nation’s 21 million citizens could exercise their legal right t...
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11 Feb 2017
Mass Layoffs at ABP
By Manisha Pande
Manisha Pande examines the alarming trend of newsgathering being replaced with news aggregation by the desk, and the accompanying job losses especially among reporters. Gautam Sarkar (47) did not know his job was on the chopping block when his editor...
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11 Feb 2017
Getting Away With Murder
By Saleem Samad
Despite assurances of speedy justice, investigation into the brutal murder of journalist couple Sagar Sarowar and Meherun Runi continues to languish, says Saleem Samad Justice is long overdue in the sensational murder of Sagar Sarowar, news editor of...
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01 Feb 2017
Prioritising safety
By Lubna Jerar Naqvi
Despite the race for stories, media houses in Pakistan are now putting safety of their staff at a higher footing than ratings, says Lubna Jerar Naqvi. Terrorism and murder are the main causes for media deaths in Pakistan and five media personnel were...
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08 Jan 2017
Remembering Lasantha
By Dilrukshi Handunnetti
Eight years after the murder of The Sunday Leader editor Lasantha Wickrematunge, his colleague Dilrukshi Handunnetti remembers all that he stood for: truth, courage, and justice. Way back in 2007, when I was assigned one of the biggest investigative ...