Pamela Philipose is an Indian journalist and researcher, who is a senior fellow at the
Indian Council of Social Science Research
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Council
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. She was the recipient of the
Chameli Devi Jain Award for Outstanding Women Mediapersons
The Chameli Devi Jain Award for Outstanding Women Mediaperson is an Indian journalism award named after Chameli Devi Jain, an Indian independence activist who became the first Jain woman to go to prison during India's independence struggle. The ...
in 1999 and has served as an advisor to the Media Task Force of the high level committee of the
Congress
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led
Government of India
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. In the 2020 edition of the
Ramnath Goenka Excellence in Journalism Awards
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, she was appointed as one of the jurors along with the likes of
B. N. Srikrishna
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editor-in-chief
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The highest-ranking editor of a publication may also be titled editor, managing ...
The Indian Express
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''. She was also the author of the satirical column ''Straight Face'' and the author of a number of commentary pieces of ''The Indian Express''. Since September 2016, Philipose is appointed as the
public editor
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(ombudsman) of ''
The Wire
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''. She has worked as a journalist at ''
The Times of India
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'' as well, the paper from where she began her career.
In March 2022 she was amongst 151 international feminists signing ''Feminist Resistance Against War: A Manifesto'', in solidarity with the
Feminist Anti-War Resistance
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initiated by Russian feminists after the
Russian invasion of Ukraine
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.
Bibliography
Academic publications
* ''Across the Crossfire: Women and Conflict in India.'' (eds. 2002; with Bishnoi, Aditi)
Kali for Women
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. .
* ''Women's Employment: Work in Progress.'' (eds. 2013; with Bishnoi, Aditi)
Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung
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.
* ''Media’s Shifting Terrain: Five Years that Transformed the Way India Communicates.'' (2018)
Orient BlackSwan
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The company publishes academic, professional and general works as well as s ...
.
Contributions
* Ranjan, Nalini, ed. (2005) ''Practising Journalism: Values, Constraints, Implications''. SAGE Publications. .
* Menon, Ritu, ed. (2011). ''Making a Difference: Memoirs from the Women's Movement in India''.
Kali for Women
Kali for Women was a start-up feminist publisher in India. Urvashi Butalia and Ritu Menon set up Kali for Women in 1984, arguably the first Indian publishing house dedicated to publishing on and for women. When they decided to take this step, ...
. .
* Padgaonkar, Latika; Singh, Shubha, eds. (2012). ''Making News, Breaking News, Her Own Way''. Tranquebar Press. .