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Neha Dixit | |
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| Education | Miranda House, Delhi Jamia Millia Islamia |
| Occupation | Journalist[1][2][3] |
Neha Dixit is an Indian journalist and author.
Early life[edit]
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She attended school in Lucknow, and graduated in English Literature from Miranda House, University of Delhi. Thereafter, she pursued a Masters in Convergent Journalism from the AJK Mass Communication Research Centre, Jamia Milia Islamia in New Delhi. She has been a fellow at the World Press Institute and Knight Centre.
Career[edit]
She has worked as an investigative journalist for over 13 years across multiple mediums including Print, Television and Online. She began her career as an investigative journalist with Tehelka magazine.[4] Dixit later joined the Special Investigation team of the news channel Headlines Today. She is also a member of the Network of Women in Media in India.[5]
Since 2013, she has been working as an independent journalist[6] Al Jazeera, Outlook magazine, Smithsonian magazine, Foreign Policy, The Caravan, The New York Times's "India Ink" blog, Himal Southasian, Washington Post and several other national and international publications.
Dixit has spoken about the issues of sexism and labour rights violations in the Indian media.[7]
Dixit's reports have often had a national and international impact. In January 2019, the Office of the High Commissioner for United Nations Human Rights wrote to the Indian government alleging that the Uttar Pradesh state police was involved in extrajudicial killings of people in Uttar Pradesh, and specifically Muslims. She also attacked RSS outfits for having a comprehensive network in border areas of Assam for welfare activities which she argued were being used for trafficking girls. Child Welfare Committee, Surendranagar termed a specific case involving 31 girls as "unsafe migration" though it praised RSS outfits for providing food, shelter and education to the girls in question. It was also her report on illegal clinical trials in India that revealed how the poor as being used as guinea pigs by multinational pharmaceutical companies.
Books[edit]
Dixit contributed to The Global Casebook of Investigative Journalism 2012.[8]
In 2016, Dixit was one of the first Indian journalists to use a graphic format for reportage. She contributed a story "The Girl Not from Madras" to the comic book anthology 'First Hand: Graphic Non-fiction from India', about exploitation of women in India.[9][10] The illustrations were done by well known graphic artist Orijit Sen.
Dixit contributed a chapter on Sexual violence during sectarian violence in India to Breaching the Citadel, an anthology of sexual violence in South Asia 2016 by Zubaan Books.[11]
She also contributed an essay 'Outcast(e)/Outlawed: The Bandit Queen (1996)' in the book 'Bad' Women of Bombay Films'published by Palgrave. It looks is a deep dive into Phoolan Devi's life and how it was represented in the film 'Bandit Queen.'
Awards[edit]
In 2019, she was awarded the CPJ International Press Freedom Award by the Committee to Protect Journalists.
In 2017, she won the Chameli Devi Jain Award for Outstanding Woman Journalist for 2016, the highest award for women journalists in India.[12]
In 2015, she won the Press Institute of India-Red Cross award for her story "Shadow Lines" on mass rapes of women in the sectarian violence of North India's Muzaffarnagar.[13][14]
References[edit]
- ↑ Ullekh NP (26 January 2015). War Room: The People, Tactics and Technology behind Narendra Modi's 2014 Win. Roli Books Private Limited. p. 33. ISBN 978-93-5194-068-5.
- ↑ "Selective amnesia". The Hindu.
- ↑ "Modi’s Scandals: a Delhi Diary". Counter Punch. 16 July 2015 by Vijay Prashad
- ↑ "Blood for sale: India's illegal 'red market'". BBC News, By Anu Anand Delhi. 27 January 2015
- ↑ "Newsmagazine’s Handling of Sex Harassment Complaint Draws Criticism". New York Times: India Ink, By Nida Najar 21 November 2013
- ↑ "Two Girls in a Tree: Why the Indian Rape Photos Are Inexcusable". Huffington Post, 4 August 2014. by Sandip Roy.
- ↑ "Journalist Neha Dixit Spills The Beans On The Shocking Realities Of Women Journalists In India". Youth Ki Awaaz. 3 September 2014. Retrieved 3 August 2019.
- ↑ "The global investigative journalism casebook". www.unesco.org. Retrieved 10 April 2019.
- ↑ "Comic book sheds light on untold stories of trafficking, poverty and prejudice in India". Reuters, 10 June 2016. By Anuradha Nagaraj. vis Euronews.
- ↑ "One-of-a-kind graphic anthology on contemporary India". Kanika Sharma, Hindustan Times 16 May 2016
- ↑ "Zubaan- Feminist Independent Publishing". Retrieved 10 April 2019.
- ↑ Staff, The Wire. "Neha Dixit Wins Chameli Devi Award for Outstanding Woman Journalist for 2016". thewire.in. Retrieved 30 September 2017.
- ↑ "Neha Dixit wins Red Cross award for writing on women raped during 2013 Muzaffarnagar riots". TwoCircles, 1 December 2015
- ↑ "KL Former Journalist Shazia Yousuf Wins ICRC-PII Award". Kashmir Life, 2 December 2015
External links[edit]
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