Whose News?: The Media and Women′s Issues

by Ammu Joseph (Editor), Kalpana Sharma (Editor)

The First Edition of Whose News?: The Media and Women′s Issues (1994) quickly became an international classic which was widely used both by students and practitioners. This new and updated edition of the 1994 classic addresses the set of questions that has arisen in recent years concerning women′s access (as users) to the media and to information, their participation in media and communication structures, and their portrayal and perspectives in media content. The  Second Edition retains its unique gender analysis of media content, and situates, views and evaluates the coverage of gender issues in the media within the context of recent trends in both the economy and the media industry. Employing a novel and nuanced methodology, it offers a distinctive view of the history of both the media and the women′s movement in India at the beginning of the 21st century.

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First published October 31, 1994

About the author

Ammu Joseph is a freelance journalist, media analyst and editorial consultant based in Bangalore, India.

In addition to writing freelance for various publications in India and abroad, primarily on issues related to women, children, human development and the media, she has been contributing a fortnightly column for children to The Hindu's Young World for the past seven years. Entitled "Space Out" and written under the pseudonym Uma, the column introduces children to a wide range of social and ethical issues. At present she is also editorial consultant for Voices for Change, a quarterly publication of Voices/Madhyam Communications, a Bangalore-based NGO focusing on communications in and for development.

Ammu Joseph has been a journalist for 20 years. In her last full-time job, she was Magazine Editor of The India Post in Bombay. She began her career as a journalist with Eve's Weekly, for which she served as Assistant Editor for four years. She has also been a visiting lecturer in journalism for the post-graduate course in "Social Communications Media" at the Sophia College Polytechnic, Bombay, since 1995.

She received her B.A. in English Literature from Women's Christian College in Madras, a diploma in Social Communications Media from Sophia College Polytechnic in Bombay, and a B.S. in Public Communications from Syracuse University, New York. She has also been a press fellow at Wolfson College, Cambridge University, England.