February 21, Writing and Reporting Towards a World Without Gender-Based Violence
This event marks the release of the timely and vital guide book Silence and Omissions: A Media Guide for Covering Gender-Based Violence.The book, written in consultation with over one hundred women journalists around the world, sets out a human-rights framework for reporting on gendered violence, as well as the importance of using a survivor-centered approach. It can be accessed digitally or in print.
Following the presentation, a lively conversation between Cathy and SC&I PhD student Nikhila Natarajan will take place.
Cathy Otten is an award-winning British journalist and author of With Ash On Their Faces: Yezidi Women and the Islamic State (OR books 2017). The Los Angeles Review of Books described With Ash on Their Faces as: "The best kind of humanist journalism: lucid, transparent, grimly realistic.… (N)o book has covered it better.” Cathy worked as a reporter in the UK, and then as a correspondent in Iraq for the Independent and others.
In her book-length work, Cathy wrote about trans generational resistance to slavery among Iraq’s Yezidis, and presented a political economy for Sinjar in the years leading up to 2014’s IS massacres. Her journalism has been supported by the Pulitzer Center on Crisis Reporting and the Carey Institute for Global Good. She holds a consultancy position with the Center for Women’s Global Leadership at Rutgers University where she leads the journalism initiative on gender-based violence.
Nikhila Natarajan (NIKI) is a PhD student in Media Studies. Her research interests are located at the intersection of audience practices, technology innovation and policy implications. Niki has led newsroom innovation at leading news brands across print/ broadcast /digital before embarking on a PhD. During her journalism career, she reported for The Indian Express, Business Standard, TV Today, Zee News, Firstpost and Indo Asian News Service -- in multilingual formats and across geographies.
This event marks the release of the timely and vital guide book Silence and Omissions: A Media Guide for Covering Gender-Based Violence.The book, written in consultation with over one hundred women journalists around the world, sets out a human-rights framework for reporting on gendered violence, as well as the importance of using a survivor-centered approach. It can be accessed digitally or in print.
Following the presentation, a lively conversation between Cathy and SC&I PhD student Nikhila Natarajan will take place.
Cathy Otten is an award-winning British journalist and author of With Ash On Their Faces: Yezidi Women and the Islamic State (OR books 2017). The Los Angeles Review of Books described With Ash on Their Faces as: "The best kind of humanist journalism: lucid, transparent, grimly realistic.… (N)o book has covered it better.” Cathy worked as a reporter in the UK, and then as a correspondent in Iraq for the Independent and others.
In her book-length work, Cathy wrote about trans generational resistance to slavery among Iraq’s Yezidis, and presented a political economy for Sinjar in the years leading up to 2014’s IS massacres. Her journalism has been supported by the Pulitzer Center on Crisis Reporting and the Carey Institute for Global Good. She holds a consultancy position with the Center for Women’s Global Leadership at Rutgers University where she leads the journalism initiative on gender-based violence.
Nikhila Natarajan (NIKI) is a PhD student in Media Studies. Her research interests are located at the intersection of audience practices, technology innovation and policy implications. Niki has led newsroom innovation at leading news brands across print/ broadcast /digital before embarking on a PhD. During her journalism career, she reported for The Indian Express, Business Standard, TV Today, Zee News, Firstpost and Indo Asian News Service -- in multilingual formats and across geographies.
