| Panos South Asia announces media fellowships for print/web and broadcast journalists on Conflict reporting and Climate change reporting in Northeast India |
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Panos South Asia invites print/web, radio and television journalists to apply for a fellowship to research and write on conflict-related and climate change issues in Northeast India. We are awarding six fellowships in Conflict reporting: three for print/web media, two for radio and one for television.
One print/web media fellowship is being awarded for researching and writing on climate change issues in Northeast India.
The fellowship will run from September 2009 to June 2010.An advisory panel comprising senior journalists and experts will provide support and guidance to the selected fellows. Fellows will also be eligible for financial support for travel and research. The last date for receipt of applications is August 10th, 2009.The fellowship is open only to people who can write reports based on primary field research in the Northeast ...More |
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| Panos South Asia media fellowships on Conflict reporting in Northeast India announced |
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Panos South Asia's media fellowship to research conflict-related issues in Northeast India have been announced.The Fellowships for the third cycle of its 'Plural Media and peace-building in Northeast India' which runs from July 2008- June 2009 have been awarded to three print journalists, two radio journalists and a television journalist ...More |
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| Panos South Asia hosts its seventh Indo-Pak Media retreat in Barcelona, Spain |
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| Continuing with its series of Media Gatekeepers’ retreats, Panos South Asia hosted its seventh successive two-day retreat at Barcelona, Spain on 23rd and 24th August 2008. Distinguished editors from the print and broadcast media in India and Pakistan l discussed issues of bilateral relevance. The retreat is organised annually in collaboration with Himal Southasian magazine under the aegis of Panos South Asia’s India and Pakistan Media and Peace-building programme. The discussions were moderated by Kanak Mani Dixit, Editor, Himal Southasian ...More |
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| Panos South Asia’s multi-stakeholder dialogue in Switzerland on 'Conflict and reconciliation' by Naga academicians,researchers and media |
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| Continuing with our engagement with Naga partners and individuals to ensure that their struggle for self-determination is seen through prisms other than only the security-related and anthropological lenses, Panos South Asia facilitated travel of six partners drawn from varied fields to showcase cultural and academic productions in Switzerland. The visit which took place in early February 2009 centred around the ongoing exhibitions at the Museum of Culture at Basel and the Museum of Ethnology at Zurich. Organised thematically, programmes within the exchange spanned film screenings, talks and book readings by the participants. There were discussions with the organisers of these exhibitions on various aspects of research, representation and engagement with issues of the Naga peoples in their present context and the events reflected these concerns ...More |
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| Panos South Asia's reply to the article in The Island |
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| Panos South Asia's reply to the article in The Island ...More |
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| Invitation to apply for Knight fellowships |
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Invitation to apply for Knight fellowships
ICFJ invites applications from eligible candidates to apply for the upcoming Knight fellowships.These fellowships will facilitate launching a network of women citizen journalists reporting on gender issues in India or Pakistan; and create an online platform that maps citizen generated reports on crime and corruption in Pakistan ...More |
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| Panos South Asia announces awardees of the media fellowships for print/web and broadcast journalists on Conflict reporting and Climate change reporting in Northeast India for 2009-2010 |
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| Panos South Asia has granted fellowships to three print journalists, one television journalist and a radio journalist to research and document Conflict-related issues in Northeast India. The fellowships were awarded based on their investigative work on the subject ...More |
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| Panos South Asia hosts Media Gatekeepers' retreat on 'Fresh paradigms for peace: Evolving a new framework for negotiations in North South Asia' at Salzburg, Austria |
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 An out –of- the- box regional initiative on Afghanistan would help bring stability to South Asia and progress towards the staggered removal of thousands of foreign troops from the region, top media editors from India, Pakistan and Afghanistan said at a retreat hosted by Panos South Asia in Salzburg, Austria on October 6 and 7, 2009.
While competing strategic interests and entrenched security establishments prevent such thinking, it is for the intelligentsia to evolve a suitable framework that would hold minimum guarantees for India, Pakistan and Afghanistan to overcome their trust deficit and evolve mutually beneficial inter-dependent scenarios after the exit of the US led international forces, they said ...More |
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| Panos South Asia in association with Calcutta Research Group announces the Eighth Annual Winter Course on Forced Migration |
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| Applications are invited for the Eighth annual winter course on forced migration organised by the Calcutta Research Group in association with Panos South Asia. Application forms are available online at www.mcrg.ac.in.The application deadline is 31 May 2010. ...More |
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| Panos South Asia media fellowships to research conflict-related issues in Northeast India 2010-2011 announced |
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| Panos South Asia has announced the awardees of its print/web, radio and television fellowships to research and document conflict-related issues in Northeast India for 2010-11. Three print/web media,one radio and one television fellowship have been awarded.The fellowships will run till March 31, 2011 ...More |
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| Panos South Asia concludes September Study Tour and Writers’ workshop in Northeast India |
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Four women writers from different parts of the country were taken on a two-week tour of Northeast India, where they interacted with several civil society organisations, cultural activists, political leaders and other persons who contribute to creating a multi-layered public sphere in the region from September 15th to 29th.The writers were Gauri Lankesh,Sumana Roy,Taran Nishat Khan and Deepika Arwind ...More |
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| Panos South Asia hosts its ninth Media Gatekeepers’ retreat at Chateau Jemeppe, Belgium |
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PSA’s 2010 Media Gatekeepers’ retreat which brought together editors from India, Pakistan and Afghanistan deliberated on the topic ‘no progress beyond ‘Lakshman Rekha ‘ in Kashmir. The discussants included Bharat Bhushan, Anant Nath,Siddharth Varadarajan, Surya Gangadharan,Om Thanvi from India; Shahir Zahine, Dr Hussain Yasa and Danish Karokhel from Afghanistan; Azhar Abbas, Zahid Hussain and Khalid Hameed Farooqi from Pakistan. The event which took place on October 2nd and 3rd was moderated by Kanak Mani Dixit, Editor, Himal Southasian
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| PSA's Northeast Media fellow Bornali Boruah wins the Sarojini Naidu Award 2010 |
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| Hearty congratulations to PSA media fellow Bornali Boruah for winning the tenth annual Sarojini Naidu prize for best reporting on women and panchayati raj, instituted by the New York-based non-profit organisation The Hunger Project. ...More |
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| Two-day roundtable on peace-building and reconciliation in South Asia |
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| Panos South Asia in association with Morung Express invites you to a two-day roundtable to share our collective knowledge on peace-building and reconciliation in South Asia, as also to learn from the experiences of other communities in different parts of the world. It is as much an effort to tell others about our work, as to learn about our shortcomings. It is also an earnest effort to ensure the expansion of spaces for dialogue in societies that have been militarised.The roundtable will be held on 25th and 26th march 2011 in New Delhi ...More |
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| Panos Media Fellow wins Assam Sahitya Sabha's Ambikagiri Rai Chaudhury Award |
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 Pulin Kalita, Panos media fellow of the Northeast plural media and peace-building programme, has been given Assam Sahitya sabha's highest honour, the Ambikagiri Rai Chaudhury award for his book ' Axomiyar Songha, Axomiyar Asista'. Assam Sahitya Sabha President Rongbong Terang handed over the award to Pulin at a function in Dhemaji on February 18th, 2009 ...More |
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| Panos South Asia holds its sixth successful Indo- Pak Media Retreat on a Decade of the Peace Process at Siem Reap, Cambodia |
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Top Editors from India and Pakistan met for a media retreat in Siem Reap, Cambodia on September 29th and 30th to take stock of a decade of the complex peace process between the two countries. The retreat is organized annually in collaboration with Himal South Asian under the aegis of Panos South Asia’s India and Pakistan Media and Peace Building Programme. ...More |
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| Panos South Asia's efforts to enhance quality of conflict reportage from the North-Eastern states pay rich dividends |
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| Panos began functioning in the strife-torn North Eastern states in 2005, with the aim of enabling the media to understand conflicts and work constructively for peace-building in the region. In the two years that have gone by, Panos has reached a sustainable stage of helping media understand conflicts better. The programmes envisaged and carried out under this project have helped the media by making voices of all parties to the conflict heard and by encouraging informed and active public debate leading to a rational and ethical perspective on underlying issues. ...More |
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| Kashmir: The Long Road Ahead |
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 “Independence for Kashmir is romanticism and not available to the people as an alternative. We have to look at another way forward”, said Sardar Qayoom Khan, former Prime Minister of Pakistan Administered Kashmir at the first ever media retreat on the issue organised by Panos South Asia in Istanbul in 2006. ...More |
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| Cairo Gatekeepers' Roundtable on the India-Pakistan engagement. |
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Panos South Asia in association with Himal Southasian held its 5th gatekeepers'
roundtable on the India-Pakistan engagement on 11th &12th November, 2006 in Cairo,Egypt.These retreats spring from the faith that in a world of changing equations and moods,rapprochement between New Delhi and Islamabad is a key factor for a safe & prosperous South Asia.Acknowledging that there is always space for reasoned debate and deliberation in India-Pakistan relations,the gatekeepers discussed various critical ssues under the theme "Are India and Pakistan really in control of the situation?" ...More |
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| Indo-Pak Media Monitoring |
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| In the first year of a three-year project to monitor how the media in India and Pakistan cover each other’s country, Panos South Asia and the Media Foundation together decided to do baseline monitoring of selected print media in both countries. For 2004-2005, print media coverage was monitored for three one-month periods every year. ...More |
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