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‘Bid to eliminate the messenger’: Social media takedowns leaving users in the dark

Posts by journalists, political parties, activists and media organisations are increasingly being restricted or taken down on platforms such as Meta and X, following government notices issued under Section 79(3)(b) of the Information Technology Act. This trend has raised concerns over transparency, due process and press freedom in India.

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Ghar se salon tak: TV news turns ‘investigative’ reporter and language police over CJP protest

Mainstream TV media has seemingly not taken any feedback on board in its coverage of the CJP protest. Emblematic of this are two recent pieces of ‘investigation’ by CNN-News18, which shows how far their coverage of the CJP protest continues to stray from the real issues of the protest –…

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One may lose an eye, another will live with embedded projectile forever: Delhi protesters describe life-altering injuries after pellet-gun firing

ON THE GROUND: Two young men carry the scars of the brutal police crackdown on student-led protests in India. Shweta Sharma speaks to them and their families about the highly controversial use of pellet guns by the security forces

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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…

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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…

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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.

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‘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…

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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.

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Amid Crackdown, International Reporters Leave India

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

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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.

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In Hindenburg fallout, serious questions cordoned off by the media’s noise

The Modi government is lucky. The latest bombshell from Hindenburg Research landed in India a day after the budget session of parliament had concluded. Had it come a couple of days earlier, one can just imagine the scenes in both houses of parliament, given that the name “Adani”, mentioned by…

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‘Arrest is imminent’: CBI raids on Harsh Mander, FIR filed

The Central Bureau of Investigation has filed an FIR against human rights activist and former IAS officer Harsh Mander for alleged FCRA violations, Newslaundry learned today.

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Reporters Without Orders Ep 302: NDTV’s viewership, Ram Mandir impact on Ayodhya

This week, host Basant Kumar is joined by Avdhesh Kumar from Newslaundry and Ayush Tiwari from Scroll.

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NewsClick and patterns of repression: The tiredness of being a journalist

For a particular kind of journalist, life is supposed to play out in sanctimonious technicolour, just like The Newsroom. Speaking truth to power, telling the stories that matter, separating fact from fiction, holding people accountable. Did you annoy a government or local bigwig in the process? No problem! That’s par…

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In the scramble for ‘exclusives’, media must follow caution while reporting from Manipur

This “breaking news” took more than two months to break. I am referring, of course, to the so-called “viral video”, a term that hides the real content of that video. For it ought to be remembered as “the sexual assault video” of Kuki women, disrobed and paraded naked by a…

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The people of Manipur should be the news – not just visits by politicians

For close to two months, a state of the Indian union has been burning – literally. It is caught in what is being described as a civil war. Yet, ask an average person living in what people in the northeast of India call the “mainland” whether they are aware of…

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Hafta letters: Attacks in Australia, high court elevations, Hafta quotes

Suggestion: Let's pay more attention to digital media in addition to mainstream media. There's good and bad journalism online with substantial viewership. Let's talk about it on Alternate Newsance and Hafta, call out good journalism, and condemn bad. Channels to discuss: Scroll, Print, Wire, Lallantop, ANI, WION, etc. Thoughts on…

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In rare reports on the Adani empire, a reminder of independent media’s significance

Few would have heard the name of TV journalist Govind Wakade. He works for TV18 and is based in Pune.

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Journalism can be so much more than stenography. Ravish Kumar taught us that

This column cannot begin without mentioning the importance to Indian journalism of Ravish Kumar, who resigned from NDTV yesterday after almost 27 years there. His video statement after resigning is not just moving but also an exemplary lesson for us on what journalism is meant to be – but increasingly…

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Government doesn’t reply to plea on seizure of electronic devices, fined Rs 25,000

The Supreme Court has fined the Narendra Modi government Rs 25,000 for not replying to a petition asking for investigating agencies to specify guidelines for seizure, examination and preservation of electronic devices and their contents, the Hindu reported.

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87 percent of editors and proprietors at India’s top newspapers are men

Eighty-seven percent of editors and proprietors at India’s top English and Hindi newspapers are men.

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In 2019, Indian media had zero SC or ST journalists in leadership roles. In 2022, it’s still zero

In 2019, there were zero journalists from SC or ST backgrounds in leadership positions in India’s mainstream media newsrooms, spanning print, broadcast and digital.

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3,500 km but who’s watching? How Big Media dropped the ball in its coverage of Bharat Jodo Yatra

As journalists, we can support or oppose a political party, like or dislike a politician. But that is an individual choice. In our capacity as journalists who report on events, we are compelled to put aside our personal prejudices when we report. At least, that is the ideal and that…

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Press meet on Zubair’s arrest: Why journalists need more than just shows of solidarity

The conference hall of the Press Club of India was packed on Monday afternoon. It contained more than 70 journalists who had gathered to discuss, as PCI put it, the “creeping infringement of media freedom and assault on personal liberty of journalists”.

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Reporters Without Orders Ep 221: Targeting Gyanvapi mosque

Host Nidhi Suresh is joined by Aishwarya Iyer of Scroll who talks about her series on the Hindutva campaign around the Gyanvapi mosque in Varanasi, Uttar Pradesh.

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