Geeta Seshu

</ref>. She is engaged in reporting and analysing media issues, in particular on freedom of expression, media ethics, media ownership and working conditions of journalists.
Career
Seshu started her career in 1984 with Free Press Journal and joined The Indian Express in 1986. She was editor of Soulkurry, an Internet portal for women and was editor of the niche social issues magazine Humanscape.
She has been tracking media representation of women in the mainstream media for several years. She was a senior research fellow of the Awa Wadia Archives for Women and, along with Chayanika Shah and Meena Gopal, archived the campaign against sex-determination of the Forum Against Sex Determination and Sex Pre-selection (FASDSP) in 2010. She was Consulting Editor of The Hoot, a media watchdog website till the time it became an archive housed with the Ashoka University..
Geeta lectures on the media and has written a chapter on television and regulation (TV News Channels in India, Academic Foundation, 2016) as well as on digital access and online abuse of women in India (India Connected, Sage, 2016) and on news reportage and privacy entitled ‘Indian media mines the private’(Indian Journalism in a New Era, Changes, Challenges, and Perspectives OUP, 2018).
She is co-founder, with Laxmi Murthy, of the Free Speech Collective, which works to campaign and safeguard freedom of expression in India.
Seshu has started Vividha, a multimedia initiative to bring alive narratives, testimonies and reports. As part of Vividha's work, she produced a bi-lingual book 'Premchand ke phate joote',illustrated and designed by Shrujana Niranjani Shridar and has also made the short documentary "Sabita Goswami: A journalist remembers" about Indian journalist Sabita Goswami.
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