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Neha dixit the courage to tell a hidden story converge
Neha Dixit is an independent journalist from India. She has extensively covered gender, development and conflict in South Asia.
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- Neha dixit the courage to tell a hidden story converge
- Neha dixit on cobrapost s operation juliet
- Early life
- Career
- Awards
- References
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Early life
Dixit attended school in Lucknow. She 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.
Career
She started her career as an investigative journalist with Tehelka magazine. She later joined the Special Investigation team of the news channel Headlines Today. She is also a member of the Network of Women in Media in India.
Since 2013, she has been working as an independent journalist, writing for The New York Times, Al Jazeera, Outlook magazine, Smithsonian magazine, Foreign Policy, Caravan, New York Times: India Ink, Himal SouthAsia and several other national and international publications.
Dixit has frequently spoken out about Sexism and labour rights violations in Indian media.
In 2016, she contributed a story "The Girl Not from Madras" to the comic book anthology 'First Hand: Graphic Non-fiction from India', about exploitation of women in India.
She has also contributed to The Global Casebook of Investigative Journalism 2012 and an anthology of sexual violence in South Asia 2016 by Zubaan Books.
Awards
In 2015, she won the Press Institute of India-Red Cross award for her story "Shadow Lines" on mass rapes of women in the sectarian violence of North India's Muzaffarnagar. She has won several awards which include Trust Women Honorary Journalist award by Thomson Reuters Foundation, Young Journalist Award by Thomson Foundation, Lorenzo Natali Award by the European Commission, Best Television Reporter, News Television Awards, UNFPA Laadli Award, Anupama Jayaraman Award. She has also won the Kurt Schork award for investigative journalism, and has been a World Press Institute fellow.