Women journalists in Pakistan work in a hostile environment; only the fittest can survive.
“SOMETIMES I think they just wanted to scare me, but then I think maybe they wanted me dead,” says Bisma , a journalist well known for her progressive views. It was one evening in February 2019 when several shots were fired right outside her house. She has never spoken about the incident to anyone except her immediate family, her boss and the head of the media company she works for all of whom believe it was due to her reporting.
It had been a year since Bisma had done a particular story and started getting threatening calls telling her to “watch out”, the tone in each subsequent call turning more aggressive. “I never thought they would show up at my doorstep,” she says. Fearing further repercussions, she kept quiet, and has since then drastically cut down her social media presence. “The message was pretty clear.”
Separated by borders, united through stories of online abuse
Protest in Dhaka against gender-based online violence. Photo by S.K Enamul Haque
For the first time, South Asian media organisations The Daily Star in Bangladesh, The Week magazine in India, Dawn in Pakistan and Republica in Nepal are coming together to report about the killings, attacks, harassment, and intimidation of journalists in the respective countries. It is the first such collaboration by media outlets in the region.
Bangladesh: Does Digital Security Act actually protect women?
By Zyma Islam
It is impossible in all probability to find a woman who has not been sexually harassed online, but try locating one who has sought legal recourse for it under the Digital Security Act (DSA), and it is akin to finding a needle in a haystack.
GHOne TV s multiple award-winning news anchor, Ridwan Karim Dini-Osman, has emerged Best African Journalist in the TV category of the 2020 African Climate Change and Environmental Reporting (ACCER) Awards, held on the sidelines of the Fifth UN Environmental Assembly (UNEA) in Nairobi, Kenya.
While the pandemic has overwhelmed the news cycle and dominated headlines around the world, the young Journalist offered a rare perspective on used PPE disposal and gives comprehensive coverage of waste management gaps in Ghana s response to the covid-19 pandemic.
Ridwan s TV piece on Covid-19 waste disposal which has already received two awards from the International Centre for Journalists (ICFJ) and the Ghana Journalists Association (GJA) beat two renowned Kenyan science reporters, Zeynab Wandati and Sheila Sendeyo, both of NTV Kenya to win the coveted prize.
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Ripples Nigeria has a shinning start to the year as the duo of Patrick Egwu and Vivian Chime were named among 50 journalists across the globe honoured by the International Centre For Journalists (ICFJ).
Egwu and Chime won second place under the Inequality, Business and Economics category for an investigative report commissioned by Ripples Nigeria titled ‘Investigation: ‘Official’ Thugs Killing Small Businesses in Cross River Despite Govt’s Tax Exemption Policy’
In a statement on the ICFJ website announcing the award, the centre said: “The International Center for Journalists (ICFJ) is honoring more than 50 journalists for COVID-19 reporting in five languages. Their coverage has explained complicated science, revealed pandemic-related corruption and exposed inequalities that have harmed society’s most vulnerable.