Meera Selva
Senior Research Associate
Meera Selva is a Senior Research Associate at the Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism. She was the Director of our Journalist Fellowship Programmes from 2017 to 2022. After leaving the Institute, she was appointed CEO of Internews Europe.
Meera is an accomplished senior journalist with experience in Europe, Asia and Africa. She joined the Reuters Institute from Handelsblatt Global where she had been working out of Singapore, having helped launch the digital daily business paper in Berlin in 2014. She was also previously a London based correspondent for the Associated Press, and Africa correspondent for the Independent based in Nairobi. She also has several years experience in financial journalism.
She is co-founder of the Oxford Climate Journalism Network and her work at the Reuters Institute includes climate change, newsroom diversity and media freedom.
Meera studied for an MPhil in European Politics at St. Antony’s College, Oxford, and was a journalist fellow at the Reuters Institute in 2007-8 where she looked at the media coverage of the Darfur crisis. She is also a member of the RISJ Steering Committee.
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Race and leadership in the news media 2022: evidence from five markets
We analyse the racial breakdown of top editors at a sample of 100 major news outlets in five markets.
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Mujeres y liderazgo en los medios informativos en 2022: evidencias de 12 mercados
De acuerdo con este informe de Kirsten Eddy, Meera Selva y Rasmus Nielsen, sólo el 21% de las 179 personas al frente de 240 medios en 12 países son mujeres.
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Women and leadership in the news media 2022: evidence from 12 markets
We analyse the gender breakdown of top editors in a strategic sample of 240 major news outlets in 12 different markets.
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Race and leadership in the news media 2021: evidence from five markets
This factsheet analyses the percentage of non-white top editors in 100 major online and offline news outlets in Brazil, Germany, South Africa, the UK, and the US.
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Mujeres y liderazgo en los medios informativos en 2021: evidencias de 12 mercados
De acuerdo con este informe de Craig T. Robertson, Meera Selva y Rasmus Nielsen, sólo el 22% de las 180 personas al frente de 240 medios en 12 países son mujeres.
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Women and leadership in the news media 2021: evidence from 12 markets
According to this factsheet, only 22% of the 180 top editors across the 240 brands covered are women.
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Women and news: an overview of audience behaviour in 11 countries
This report, authored by Meera Selva and Simge Andı, looks at how women get their news around the world.
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How Brexit referendum voters use news
In this factsheet we have compared the current media habits of those who voted to remain with those who voted to leave.
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Race and leadership in the news media 2020: evidence from five markets
This factsheet analyses the percentage of non-white top editors in five countries.
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Mujeres y liderazgo en los medios informativos 2020: evidencias de 10 mercados
Un análisis de la desigualdad de género entre líderes de medios sobre una muestra de 200 grandes empresas en diez mercados de cuatro continentes.
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Women and leadership in the news media 2020: evidence from ten markets
A look at the gender breakdown of the senior editorial leaders across 200 news outlets.
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Fighting Words: Journalism Under Assault in Central and Eastern Europe
A look at the threats journalists face across the region.
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Journalism at COP26: the missing voices and a taste of a more inspiring way forward
"Climate change offers the chance to rethink and to reach out," writes Meera Selva, co-founder of the Oxford Climate Journalism Network.
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Why we need a new local language of climate change reporting
"Journalists need better local data, access to experts and funding to cover these stories on the ground," writes Meera Selva.
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Do you want to fix the news media race problem? Put fewer white men at the top
"The broader question is who is deciding the news, who gets to have a voice, and how those who do speak are treated," writes Meera Selva.
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One year on, an unwanted heroism: journalism under fire in a global pandemic
"Far too many journalists are currently having to take their lives into their hands when they do their jobs," writes Meera Selva.
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Journalists need other journalists. Our Fellowship creates the space they need
Director of the Journalist Fellowship Programme on the value of bringing journalists together in our fellowship programme.
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COVID-19 is hurting journalists’ mental health. News outlets should help them now
A piece by Meera Selva and Anthony Feinstein.
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As COVID-19 threatens press freedom, we must protect journalists under pressure
On World Press Freedom Day, we should celebrate the work of reporters and make sure they can still do their job, writes Meera Selva.
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Healing words: press freedom and COVID-19
"People’s stories must be told and politicians must be held to account if societies are to rebuild themselves," writes Meera Selva
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Journalism is under attack. Here's how it must fight back
Journalists need to define what they stand for, who they speak to, and who they speak for, argues Meera Selva, Director of our Fellowship Programme.
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An election fought on screens big and small: how British voters get their news
Here are five things you need to know before the UK election about how British citizens get their news
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Celebrating our Journalist Fellows on World News Day
Director of the Journalist Fellowship Programme Meera Selva pays tribute to our Journalist Fellows on World News Day