Ammu Joseph is an independent journalist and author based in Bangalore, writing primarily on issues relating to gender, human development and the media. Among her publications are Whose News?: The Media and Women’s Issues (1994/2006); Making News: Women in Journalism (2000/2005); Storylines: Conversations with Women Writers (2003); Just Between Us: Women Speak about their Writing (2004); Interior Decoration: Anthology of Poems by Indian Women (2010); and Terror, Counter-Terror: Women Speak Out (2003). She has contributed chapters to several other books; among them, most recently, Missing Half the Story: Journalism as if Gender Matters (2010); the IFJ-WACC Learning Resource Kit to Strengthen Gender-Ethical Journalism (2012); The Palgrave International Handbook of Women and Journalism (2013), UNESCO’s World Trends in the State of Freedom of Expression and Media Development (2013) and UNESCO-IAMCR’s Media and Gender: A Scholarly Agenda for the Global Alliance on Media and Gender (2014).\