The Reporter, Her Story
Women reporters have faced misogyny and sexism, and yet they have traveled a long distance. MeToo provides an acknowledgment of the hurdles in their way and their resilience. What needs to be celebrated and written about is that, in twos and threes, and later in larger numbers, women reporters carved out spaces for themselves and for the generations that followed. The MeToo movement’s impact on Indian media led to strong responses from senior women journalists and even controversies. One such was over veteran journalist Tavleen Singh’s three articles in the Indian Express (‘Stories beyond MeToo’, January 1, Fifth Column: ‘Why I am not MeToo’ October 15, 2018, and ‘Can MeToo get beyond me’, October 21, 2018). The burden of her song was that women journalists must not become the story themselves by writing about the sexual harassment they face, but focus on the exploited women in the country. In a pithy, the response, another veteran journalist Pamela Philipose has pointed ou
