Geeta Seshu
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| 🏳️ Nationality | Indian |
| 💼 Occupation | Journalist, editor |
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Geeta Seshu is an independent journalist and editor based in Mumbai, India. [1]. She is engaged in reporting and analysing media issues, in particular on freedom of expression, media ethics, media ownership and working conditions of journalists.
Career[edit]
Seshu started her career in 1984 with Free Press Journal and joined The Indian Express in 1986. She was editor of Soulkurry, an Internet portal for women and was editor of the niche social issues magazine Humanscape.
She has been tracking media representation of women in the mainstream media for several years. She was a senior research fellow of the Awa Wadia Archives for Women and, along with Chayanika Shah and Meena Gopal, archived the campaign against sex-determination of the Forum Against Sex Determination and Sex Pre-selection (FASDSP) in 2010. She was Consulting Editor of The Hoot[2], a media watchdog website till the time it became an archive housed with the Ashoka University.[3].
Geeta lectures on the media and has written a chapter on television and regulation (TV News Channels in India, Academic Foundation, 2016) as well as on digital access and online abuse of women in India (India Connected, Sage, 2016) and on news reportage and privacy entitled ‘Indian media mines the private’(Indian Journalism in a New Era, Changes, Challenges, and Perspectives OUP, 2018).
She is co-founder, with Laxmi Murthy, of the Free Speech Collective, which works to campaign and safeguard freedom of expression in India.
Seshu has started Vividha, a multimedia initiative to bring alive narratives, testimonies and reports. As part of Vividha's work, she produced a bi-lingual book 'Premchand ke phate joote',illustrated and designed by Shrujana Niranjani Shridar and has also made the short documentary "Sabita Goswami: A journalist remembers" about Indian journalist Sabita Goswami[4][5].
Opinions[edit]
Geeta is a prominent supporter of rights of women journalists and vocal about threats to them.[6][7].
She is an influential voice on media in India.[8]
Selected publications[edit]
- Seshu, Geeta (2018). "Journalism and Ethics: India Media Mines the Private". In Rao, Shakuntala. Indian Journalism in a New Era Changes, Challenges, and Perspectives. Oxford UP. ISBN 9780199490820. Search this book on
References[edit]
- ↑ "Geeta Seshu". Network of Women in Media, India (NWMI). Retrieved 8 March 2019.
- ↑ "The Hoot- Who we are". The Hoot. Retrieved 8 March 2019.
- ↑ "The Hoot - Why this website?". The Hoot. Retrieved 8 March 2019.
- ↑ Nathan, Archana. "A documentary puts the focus on Sabita Goswami, pioneering reporter in the North East in the '80s". Scroll. Retrieved 8 March 2019.
- ↑ "Geeta Seshu's short documentary: Fearless and fabulous". The New Indian Express. Retrieved 8 March 2019.
- ↑ Newslaundry. "Newslaundry - Sabki Dhulai". Newslaundry.
- ↑ "Rana Ayyub on global list of journalists under threat: Abuse of those pursuing truth must be stemmed with govt action". Firstpost.
- ↑ "#NAMAPolicy Mumbai: Regulation of Online News Content". medianama.com. 30 May 2018.
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