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Episode 05

Safina Nabi: Reporting Outside the Newsroom

Madhuri Adwani and Juhi Jotwani

Mon 15 Jul 2024

Safina narrates bitter-sweet experiences of reporting within one’s own community and listening to women who are so rarely heard by anyone, let alone the mainstream media. Having found her feet in freelance journalism without giving in to the temptations of sensational breaking news, she states how free she feels when she is not bound by the editorial processes and policies of the newsroom.

Safina Nabi is a full-time, independent multimedia journalist from South Asia based in Kashmir. She writes about gender, health, human rights, social justice, development, and the environment. She won the Fetisov Journalism Award and Laadli Media Award in 2023 for her year-long investigation about the property rights of “Half widows” from different parts of Kashmir which raised important questions about the rights of women and the role of government, society, and legal structures when it comes to women and their rights to property in disturbed regions.

10 years ago, F-Rating was created to help classify films which are written or directed by one or more female film-makers, or feature complex female characters who contribute significantly to the story. But what if ‘feminist’ is not a noun but an adjective? What if the feminist lens lends itself to all practices and not only film-making? Nirantar Radio brings to you ‘F-Rated Interviews’ where The Third Eye team speaks to different practitioners about their practice – but with a feminist lens.

Artwork: Tavisha Singh

Read in Hindi.

Madhuri Adwani produces, records and edits narratives and sound pieces on Nirantar Radio. She also mentors and facilitates workshops as part of The Learning Lab where her core enquiry is ‘how do we write and tell our narratives’.

Juhi is a writer and a researcher who writes long form pieces, provides editorial support, and produces podcast episodes and audio pieces for The Third Eye’s podcast channel Nirantar Radio.