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Pamela Philipose

Pamela Philipose, presently the ombudsperson of the New Delhi-based news portal, The Wire.in, has served as editor-in-chief of Women's Feature Service. Earlier, she was the senior associate editor, The Indian Express. She has served as advisor to the Media Task Force of the Government of India’s High Level Status of Women Committee Report. She is the author of Media’s Shifting Terrain: Five Years that Transformed the Way India Communicates (2019), A Boundless Fear Gripped Me: How the Other Half Lived in the Pandemic’s Shadow (2023), and Framing the Media: Government Policies, Law and Freedom of the Press in India (2025).