Sreeja V
@Wordsmith · 0:50
Does Journalism offer women a level playing field? Navya Singh, Founder, Fact Forth LLP in conversation.
Does journalism offer a level playing field for women as it evolved to provide women equal opportunities to grow and thrive? I'm delighted to welcome Navya Navya, Navya, navya Singh, founder fact forth LLP her views with us here on Swell. Prior to setting out on her entrepreneurial journey, Navya has worked with India Today, the Times of India the Logical Indian and also with the Quint. A journalist with a passion to dig out stories around climate, action and sustainability
Navya Singh
@newswithnavya · 3:05
I think all of that really needs to stop and we need to start realizing that women journalists, or any journalist for that matter, is not about his or her looks. They're about the skill that they have, how confident they are, how knowledgeable they are. And that's all that matters. So I think that debate really needs to come to an end. Apart from that, I think when we talk about opportunities, I don't think there are equal opportunities for women journalists
Sreeja V
@Wordsmith · 0:45
Yes, very true. I think a lot of women journalists have continuously stressed on this aspect of having to look a certain way before the camera and where personality always seems to come before substance. Right. And the pressure constantly to keep looking good, moving away from what one has to say to how one looks. And definitely a very valid point there
Navya Singh
@newswithnavya · 3:18
And I also feel that journalists are pressurized with the number of stories that they have to submit in a day, that they have to report on in a day. I think that really is a very big problem that we need to identify and that we need to fix because I cannot work on five different stories and all five of them are from completely different sectors in one single day. I mean I need to focus on that one story that requires all my attention, that requires all my focus
In journalism. On a level playing field, I would say that journalism does not exist. It does not exist in the mainstream. So whether or not you're a man or a woman, it doesn't exist. It really doesn't. I feel so much more reliable from the information I get from a YouTuber like, let's say, the umbrella guy, I feel much more comfortable. Or from Laura B. She's a woman and he's a man
And this is the reason when there are reporters who are caught doing certain I would say not in a right manner, they are producing the stories, getting the stories out of people at certain times. They are using false evidence too and resulting in big media houses being shut out or asking a public apology. I remember that era of durharshan when the news was presented in a subtle manner, in a more, I would say humane way