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Reporting on conflict is one of the most demanding and dangerous responsibilities in journalism, especially when truth is often the first casualty of war. How do newsrooms ensure accuracy amid chaos? What moral questions define war journalism, and how can editors balance ethics, safety and coverage?

BBC Director General Tim Davie and CEO of news Deborah Turness have resigned amid reports suggesting that a BBC documentary misleadingly edited Donald Trump’s speech from January 6, 2021. 

For nearly three months, journalists have neither been allowed to stand outside the Election Commission of India’s headquarters on Delhi’s Ashoka Road, nor film visuals from across the road. The area remains heavily barricaded with police restrictions.

It was a warm summer morning in May in the quiet border village of Banda, nestled in Maharashtra’s Sawantwadi taluka of Sindhudurg district, near the Goa border. At a small flower stall in the bustling Bazaar Peth market, 38-year-old Aftab Shaikh and his mother, Fahmida, were arranging garlands and flowers…

On November 6, while polling was underway in 121 seats in Bihar, Prime Minister Narendra Modi addressed a crowd in Bhagalpur. The audience seethed with excitement, telling Newslaundry that under the NDA, the state’s roads and rations had improved, and that the “government was working so well”.

As toxic air continued to blanket Delhi-NCR, activists gathered at Jantar Mantar to protest the governments’ continued failure to confront the crisis.

In this episode of Another Election Show, Newslaundry speaks to students of Patna Women’s College to understand their views on politics and the issues that matter to them in this election season in Bihar. 

The World Cup victory last Sunday marked a turning point for women’s cricket in India. Pay parity, professional contracts, and the Women’s Premier League were milestones. But this win delivered something else entirely: mass attention. And with visibility comes a question we haven’t adequately addressed: what does it mean for…

“A moment comes, which comes but rarely in history, when we step out from the old to the new, when an age ends, and when the soul of a nation, long suppressed, finds utterance,” said Zohran Mamdani in his victory speech, quoting Jawaharlal Nehru. Tonight, he added, New York has…

On November 4, ANI posted a video of Union Commerce and Industry Minister Piyush Goyal at Delhi’s IGI Airport, describing how he was “making productive use of his time by attending to some official work” while waiting to board a flight to New Zealand.

Election rules allow the use of registered vehicles for official duties, but some claim their vehicles have been used without either consent or due procedure in poll-bound Bihar.