India, May 22 -- For the last two decades, Khabar Lahariya's women reporters have been reclaiming patriarchal public spaces with their feminist rural journalism. Despite beginning as a hyperlocal digital news portal within Uttar Pradesh's feudal heartland, KL, which has now expanded into other parts of the Hindi belt, has created an army of fiery women reporters who now question authorities in ways that were previously unthinkable.

What does it take to build an all-women digital newsroom? The organisation's collective biography, The Good Reporter: A Memoir of Journalism in the 21st Century, answers that question, with brutal honesty. Written in a "non-chronological" way, it takes a step back to narrate the many stories behind the stories...