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Finding their voice
Examining some Internet-based
initiatives that are changing the
face of the Indian media
industry: An exploratory study
Paromita Pain

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Citizen journalism is on the rise in the Indian sub-continent.
Community-based media stations are not new in the
country. But lately, certain citizen driven are coming into
prominence. They weren’t all started to cater to women but
began in extremely backward regions of the country, have
seen women become active participants. My presentation
seeks to examine how these projects work, their funding
models and the most eminent stories filed to date besides
profiles of the most active women reporters.

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CGNET Swara
This is no ordinary news channel focusing on
broadcasting news and information to people. It
ensures that the audience is one that will understand
what being tribal, unwanted and displaced is all about.
Working on a simple premise that content is most
effective when produced by those who are its most
immediate audience; its coverage ensures that it’s
more than just working along the principles of being
media for and by the people.

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For Bhan Sahu, CGNET’s most active and earliest contributor,
being a woman has certain undeniable advantages. She has
done many stories for the site but she is proudest of her
expose on child labor employed in the tendu leaf collection
that’s big industry in Chhattisgarh. Sahu’s story on the
exploitation of child workers in the tendu leaf industry forced
the administration and the National Commission on Child
Rights to ensure the removal of children from that industry.

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Khabar Lahariya
This is a newspaper that has already had quite an impact. This
women-run newspaper recently published a story on the pathetic
state of health care in Chitrakoot. The local hospital was refusing
to provide emergency medical care to women in the area. They
weren’t able to immediately solve the problem but at least the
story got attention. It was published. The fact that Khabar
Lahariya gave the issue priority and makes reporting on women’s
health care an important aspect of its news coverage makes the
organization and its product very remarkable.

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Khabar Lahariya, with a staff of nearly 12 women reporters
from the marginalized Dalit, Kol and Muslim communities,
is a unique media outlet. Written in the Bundeli language, it
functions as a weekly that has news of politics and topics
popular among the local people with a special emphasis on
its female reading public.

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WAVE (Women Aloud: Video Blogging for Empowerment)
This was designed to be a digital platform for young Indian women
to voice their perspectives on issues that matter through video
blogs. WAVE was a product of collaboration of ideas. They
proposed a video blogging project to the Digital Media and
Learning competition, sponsored by the MacArthur Foundation and
HASTAC. Later they partnered with the Point of View organization
that served as the NGO -partner for the actual administration of the
WAVE Project.

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Many topics are keenly examined by the participants. Bhoomika
works at the Centre for Governance and Accountability in Delhi
and she uses her videos to explain how women can help in the
movement to make government budgets sensitive to women's
needs. A print journalist, Moushumi Basu, shot a video about
people in a village attempting to murder a family accused of
witchcraft. “It is one of the most powerful pieces of work I have
done to date,” she says.

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Increasing access to new media technologies is enabling
women from some of the most remote regions of the
world to make international headlines, organize across
borders, and obtain vital information.

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