Neha Dixit

Neha Dixit is an Indian freelance journalist, covering politics, gender and social justice.[1] She is a visiting faculty at Ashoka University and has been awarded with the Chameli Devi Jain Award (2016) as well as CPJ International Press Freedom Award (2019).[1][2]

Neha Dixit
Neha Dixit in 2016
NationalityIndian
Alma materJamia Millia Islamia
Occupation(s)Journalist, Author

Early life

Dixit attended school in Lucknow, and graduated in English Literature from Miranda House, University of Delhi. Thereafter, she pursued a Masters in Convergent Journalism from the AJK Mass Communication Research Centre, Jamia Milia Islamia in New Delhi.[3]

Career

Dixit began her career as an investigative journalist with Tehelka, before switching to the Special Investigation Team of India Today.[1] Since 2013, she has been a freelancer.[4] Her works have been published in The Wire, Al Jazeera, Outlook, The New York Times, The Caravan, Himal Southasian, and The Washington Post among others.[1][5]

Notable reports and awards

In August 2014, Dixit detailed the circumstances faced by seven rape survivors of the 2013 Muzaffarnagar riots.[3] This won her the 2014 Kurt Schork Award in International Journalism and the 2015 Press Institute of India-Red Cross award.[3]

In 2016, Dixit chronicled (for Outlook) the abduction of 31 girls from Assam by a Hindu nationalist organization to infuse them with "nationalist ideologies" — a criminal defamation suit was subsequently filed against Dixit, in what was condemned by Committee to Protect Journalists as a tool of intimidation.[1][5] The same year, she was conferred with the Chameli Devi Jain Award, the highest honor for women journalists in India: her meticulous nature of coverage and cross-checking of involved facts were admired in particular.[5]

In 2018, she reported on poor Indians, who were unethically drawn into participating in illegal drug-trials by pharma giants.[1] In 2019, Dixit documented a range of extrajudicial killings by police forces in Uttar Pradesh and other states, getting threats from high-ranked police officials, in the process.[1] Her reports prompted a note of concern by Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights.[1][6] The same year, she received the CPJ International Press Freedom Award.[1]

She has been recognised as one of the most credible Indian journalists in India because of her painstaking in-depth ground, intersectional reporting that steers clear of binary, opinionated, formulaic mainstream coverage of news.recognised

Books

In 2016, Dixit was one of the first Indian journalists to use a graphic format for reportage. She contributed a story "The Girl Not from Madras" to the comic book anthology 'First Hand: Graphic Non-fiction from India', about the exploitation of women in India.[7][8] Dixit contributed a chapter on Sexual violence during sectarian violence in India to Breaching the Citadel, an anthology of sexual violence in South Asia 2016 by Zubaan Books.[9]

Personal life

Dixit is married to Nakul Singh Sawhney, an Indian documentary filmmaker.[10]

Dixit has been charged with "inciting hatred" by the Government of India, a move that has been criticized by the Committee to Protect Journalists.[11] Because of her reporting, she has been subjected to threatening calls and an attempted acid attack and a break attempt in her house.[12]

Year Award
2020One Young World Journalist of the Year
2019International Press Freedom Award 2019, Committee To Protect Journalists
201923rd Human Rights Press Awards, Hong Kong Press Association
2019Special Mention, ACJ Award for Investigative Journalism
2017Chameli Devi Jain Award for Outstanding Woman Journalist
2015PII-ICRC Award for Best report on Humanitarian Subject
2014Kurt Schork Award in International Journalism
2013UNFPA-Laadli Media Award for Gender Sensitivity. Best Investigative Feature
2013Trust Women Honorary Journalist of the Year, Thomson Reuters Foundation
2013Thomson Foundation-Foreign Press Association Young Journalist Award
2012Best TV News reporter, News Television Awards
2011Lorenzo Natali Prize for Journalism, Asia-Pacific Region
2010News Television Award for Best Investigative Feature
2010UNFPA-Laadli Media Award for Best Investigative Feature
2009Anupama Jayaraman Memorial Award for Young Women Journalists

References

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