A global network of women communicators & researchers. With 14 national chapters and members in 54 countries, IAWRT strives to meet the urgent global challenges faced by women in and around the media. It was established in the aftermath of World War II, see The History of IAWRT or IAWRT@ 60
Women have been making news as writers or journalists for hundreds of years. Europe has records of female editors or writers back to the 1600’s, women journalists operated in India under the British Raj and in China in the 1800’s, and probably well before that, but journalism has been a male dominated profession until the last century. In many countries it still is.
Nupur Basu,(pictured) an Indian and international journalist and documentary filmmaker for the last 35 years, has been witness to women entering the profession in ever increasing numbers in the last three decades.
Increasing trust in journalism
One of IAWRT's partner organisations, the Ethical Journalism Network (EJN) has restructured and refreshed its website. Its aimed at strengthening capacity to build trust in journalism as a cornerstone of free expression and quality communications.
A new challenge
Ananya Chakraborti, the Vice President of IAWRT International, has accepted a new position as the Chairperson of the West Bengal Commission for the Protection of Child Rights. Ananya says she is looking forward to the challenging assignment.
Deadline October 31 2016.
The 13th IAWRT Asian Women's Film Festival will take place in New Delhi from 2-4 March, 2017 at the India International Centre. The festival will showcase the works of Asian women directors living in any part of the world.
Typhoon survivo in first-ever community radio podcast at Mambog, Phillippines
By Frenchie Mae Cumpio
ABOUT two hundred typhoon survivors participated in the first-ever community radio podcast at Mambog, Pinabacdao, Samar, in late July.
By new IAWRT member, Ivonne González Monsalve and staff
Marimari Sdomo, Poyen Chalin lamngen, (an affectionate greeting, Sisters). I live in the Araucanía region of Chile, which was autonomous Mapuche territory (Wallmapu) before it was conquered by the Chilean military in the early part of the
Money up for grabs for investigative reporters (applications from female reporters are especially welcome): CALL for ideas: Investigative journalists in Europe interested in privacy, the environment, finance or lobbying can apply for a by-subject cross-border grant with Journalismfund.eu. The application deadline is 25 November 2015.
The member of the month for October 2015 is Valerie Lew. Click on the link below to read more about her story.
An independent public media company in Afghanistan, the Killid Group (TKG), has been targeted in a bomb attack on one of its radio stations in the city of Jalalabad.ESP
In response to the lack of a mass medium that tackles disaster response and rehabilitation in a highly vulnerable region, IAWRT Philippines chapter is establishing a community radio station to be based at the so-called ground zero of the strongest typhoon in recorded history. ESP
The 12th IAWRT Asian Women’s Film Festival will take place in New Delhi, 3-5 March 2016, and will showcase the works of Asian women directors in a range of genres - animation, documentary, experimental, short fiction and feature fiction. The director could be living in any part of the world but should be of Asian origin. Enties and DVDs should reach us no later than October 31. ESP
Gunilla Ivarsson from Sweden is the new President of the International Association of Women in Radio and Television, Ananya Chakraborti from India, her Deputy. At elections held after the 35th Biennial in New Delhi, India, Pochi Tamba Nsoh the IAWRT chapter head for Cameroon, became the organisation’s new Secretary, Violet Gonda, UK/Zimbabwe, became the IAWRT Treasurer. The board members are Anupa Shrestha from Nepal Abeer Saady from Egypt and Iphigénie Marcoux-Fortier from Canada. ESP
OPEN CALL FOR GRANT APPLICATIONS: Promote peacebuilding, human rights, and social justice. Fork Films is holding our second open call for grant applications for feature length documentary projects in development, production and post-production. Fork Films awards grants to full-length non-fiction films that foster a culture of understanding and work towards a more peaceful and just society, while utilizing powerful and artistic storytelling methods. Specifically we seek films t
WINNERS
TV Documentary: Farzana Boby, Bangladesh, The Poison Thorn (Bishkanta)
Radio: Alexandra Christine Hall, (pictured) Clandestine Abortion in Chile, WINGS
Web audio: Diana Wanyonyi, Kenya, Save our Queens Campaign, Baraka FM.
The Gender Equality And Social Justice In Public Media report has been launched at the IAWRT Biennial Conference in New Deli. The eight country study of public radio and television, lead by Greta Gober & Diana Iulia Nastasia, measured representation of gender and other social justice measures such as age, ethnicity, and sexual diversity, across four continents and eight countries. ESP
the Asian Broadcasting Union in collaboration with Asia-Pacific Institute for Broadcasting Development (AIBD) have organised the 3rd regional workshop on Over-The-Top (OTT) and Integrated Broadcast Broadband (IBB) technologies and services. It will be held Sept 29 to Oct 1, 2015, Kuala Lumpur Hotel CaPITOL.
