Conference of women in media concludes
Source: The Sangai Express
Bengaluru, February 10 2020:
The 15th National Conference of Network of Women in Media, India attended by 150 women journalists from across the country including Kashmir and Manipur concluded on February 9 at Bengaluru.
During the 3-day conference conducted on the theme "The Media, Citizenship and Identities", discussions, workshop, cultural programme and exhibition of posters, banners and slogans from the recent uprising against CAA-NRC/NPR, were hosted at Indian Social Institute and Indian Institute of Agricultural Technology.
Babie Shirin, Imphal Free Press, Joyshree Usham, Impact TV, Thingnam Anjulika Samom and Urmila Chanam represented Manipur at the conference.
Discussion on climate change and disasters, role of media as mediator, citizenship, identity and migration, six months of Kashmir blockade, Ethics of 'fixer' journalism, etc accompanied by musical conversation by singers M D Pallavi and Bindhu Malini were also held as part of the conference.
The female journalists participated in the different learning workshops on "Getting Ready for Global Media Monitoring Project 2020" facilitated by Ammu Joseph and Padmaja Shaw; "Media Entrepreneurship: How to Start and Sustain it" facilitated by Meera K, Sandhya Mendonca, Dhanya Rajendran and Aparna Vedpuri Singh; "Digital Branding and The Newsroom" facilitated by QUINTYPE;" Regional Language Journalism Through Digital Media: Tips and Tools for Practitioners" facilitated by Rajesh Hanbal and Cynthia Stephen and " How to Deal with Legalities and Defamation Threats When Writing Something Controversial" facilitated by Sunanda Mehta.
The conference was organised by Bengaluru Chapter of Network of Women in Media, India (NWMI) and Manipur representative Urmila Chanam was also a member of the organising committee.