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'This Is a Dystopian Nightmare': Workers Told To Wear Forehead Cameras So Robots Can Learn Their Jobs

Indian workers wear forehead cameras to help train AI robots, raising questions about consent, surveillance and the future of their jobs.

International Business Times UK · Oct 24

Voices: Crackdown on journalists covering protests sets a dangerous precedent in India

COMMENT: In nearly a decade as a reporter in India, Alisha Rahaman Sarkar writes, she’s never seen anything like the crackdown on journalists doing their duty of covering the ‘cockroach’ demonstrations in the heart of the capital

The Independent UK · Oct 11

‘Koi media nahi hai’: Inside the Delhi police’s October 10 crackdown on journalists

Several journalists were stopped from doing their work and detained in Delhi on October 10. They were dragged by their clothes, pushed and manhandled, their phones snatched, and pressured to delete footage of police action. Some were picked up kilometres away from the protest site; others were detained despite wearing…

Newslaundry · Oct 11

The bigger story in Kashmir is the media’s silence on action against its own

The job of a journalist, in any part of India, is to observe, investigate, verify and report. But if you do precisely that in Kashmir, you are in big trouble. That is what journalists associated with major English language newspapers – Indian Express, Hindustan Times and The Hindu – found…

Newslaundry · Jan 23

South Central 40: Election Commission’s credibility crisis and the nun who took Bishop Franco to court

In this episode of South Central, hosts Dhanya Rajendran, Pooja Prasanna, and Leena Reghunath first discuss the ‘vote chori’ press conference by the Chief Election Commissioner Gyanesh Kumar, issuing a seven-day ultimatum to Rahul Gandhi and anyone else casting doubts on the election process. Senior investigative journalist and Executive Editor…

Newslaundry · Aug 24, 2025

Full volume on Op Sindoor, silence on the stateless

While the Indian mainstream media remained obsessed about Operation Sindoor and reported uncritically even as the Prime Minister and members of his party made political capital from the recent Indo-Pak armed clash, a quiet, more insidious episode unfolded, largely unnoticed. 

Newslaundry · Jun 5, 2025

‘An independent judiciary needs a free media’: Justice S Muralidhar at the Media Foundation Awards

Jatinder Kaur Tur of The Caravan won this year’s Chameli Devi Jain Award for Outstanding Woman Media Person of the Year at the Media Foundation Awards. The event, held at the India International Centre, New Delhi, on Friday, also saw the introduction of two new journalism awards – the Kamla…

Newslaundry · Mar 22, 2025

GIJN picks Project Electoral Bond as one of India’s best investigative stories

The Global Investigative Journalism Network (GIJN) has selected Project Electoral Bond, a joint effort by Newslaundry, The News Minute, and Scroll, as one of the best investigative stories from India in 2024. 

Newslaundry · Dec 4, 2024

Amid Crackdown, International Reporters Leave India

Journalists from Canada, France, and Australia describe a hostile environment for foreign media

The Walrus · Dec 3, 2024

Reporters Without Orders Ep 343: Assam citizenship test, Delhi air pollution

This week, host Pratyush Deep is joined by Scroll’s Rokibuz Zaman and Newslaundry’s Drishti Choudhary.

Newslaundry · Oct 26, 2024