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Could India’s new data protection bill force journalists to reveal their sources?

Before the Panama Papers were published in 2016, what if the Indian Express had been hauled before a data protection board for violating the privacy of those who held accounts in tax havens?

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Rs 2,500 crore scheme approved for ‘infrastructure development’ at Doordarshan, All India Radio

The Cabinet Committee on Economic Affairs has approved the information and broadcasting ministry’s proposal to spend over Rs 2,500 crore on “infrastructure development” at Prasar Bharati – specifically All India Radio and Doordarshan. A press release, which called it a “major boost for public broadcasting”, detailed an outlay of Rs…

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Among media outlets, Times Group, Zee shared most misinformation in 2022: Alt News

The Times Group topped Alt News’s list of media outlets that shared misinformation in 2022, followed by Zee Media, the India Today Group, right-wing blog OpIndia and NDTV.

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Sultanpuri death protests: 3 journalists ‘manhandled’ by Delhi cops

Three journalists – from Mirror Now, Times Now and Republic TV – have alleged that they were manhandled by the police at the Sultanpuri police station in Delhi. The media was present on the spot on Monday to cover protests over a horrific incident, in which a woman riding a…

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Reporters Without Orders Ep 252: The key reports, challenges in 2022

It’s a full-house this week as Ayush Tiwari and Basant Kumar host all the other Newslaundry reporters.

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Hafta letters: Salvatore Babones interview, best NL stories, praise for app

I feel like my mails are always critical of NL (and almost exclusively of Abhinandan). But I expect nothing but excellence from NL, and when that doesn't happen, I feel the need call it out, because I, like many subscribers, want NL to do well and gain wider audience.

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AAP had a good 2022. 2023 will be a challenge

On December 1, two days after polling in phase one of the Gujarat assembly election, an Aam Aadmi Party leader summed up his party’s performance.

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The year the judiciary turned its gaze to the media

While there has been ample criticism of the media from within the fraternity, there were several moments this year when the Indian judiciary also sat up and lashed out at sections of the fourth pillar of democracy.

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Cartoon: Happy new(s) year!

Cartoon is one of the oldest and boldest artistic genres for speaking truth to power. In India, however, cartoonists, in the news media and outside, are under pressure to curtail their free speech and not annoy the powerful as the finest of them are wont to do. They are being…

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From 2022 to 2023: An NDTV without the Roys

At 4 pm on December 23, a meeting took place in a building in Greater Kailash 1, Delhi.

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2022 could’ve been the year BARC regained news broadcasters' trust. It wasn’t.

The Indian news broadcasting industry is primarily split into two fraternities at loggerheads with each other. But over the last few months, both of them have approached the country’s premier television ratings agency, asking it to fix its faulty TRP measuring system. Titans of Indian journalism, meanwhile, have continued to…

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TMR 2022: The need for diverse, inclusive newsrooms

The Media Rumble 2022 saw the release of Gender Representation in Indian Newsrooms, a report produced by Newslaundry and UN Women. Its findings were startling – such as how 87 percent of editors and proprietors at India’s top newspapers are men – and begged the question as to how newsrooms…

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Online gaming to now be regulated by IT ministry, states not divested of their power

The ministry of electronics and information technology is now formally in charge of making rules related to online gaming while the ministry of youth affairs and sports is in charge of e-sports.

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Siddique Kappan got bail in both cases against him but remains in jail. Here's why

Three days after he was granted bail by the Allahabad High Court in a case filed against the Prevention of Money Laundering Act, journalist Siddique Kappan remains in jail.

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Reporters Without Orders Ep 251: Karnataka voter data theft, Delhi road safety

This week, host Akanksha Kumar is joined by Newslaundry’s Alenjith K Johny and Prajwal Bhat from The News Minute.

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Hafta 412: The ‘most satisfying’ career and all the FIFA controversies

It’s an all-Newslaundry panel this week with Abhinandan Sekhri, Manisha Pande, Mehraj D Lone and Anand Vardhan.

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Aaj Tak and India TV air BJP promotional content as news

For observers of television news media’s decline, it may no longer seem odd for Indian news anchors to sit inside the BJP headquarters to host shows airing the party’s propaganda. But what if they telecast bytes and lift videos from a publicity arm of the BJP?

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TV Newsance 195: Covid in China and Bharat Jodo Yatra as a ‘superspreader’

The big news of the week is the rapid spread of Covid in China. We look at China’s zero-Covid policy, why it failed and what’s really happening in our neighbouring country with the big Omicron spike. Should India be worried? Meanwhile, Arnab Goswami, Navika Kumar and the usual suspects on…

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Daily Dose Ep 1233: 16 killed in Sikkim road accident, Charles Sobhraj released

Gurmehar Kaur brings you the news from Sikkim, China, Delhi, Nepal and the Koreas.

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Cartoon: Christmas spirit

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Allahabad High Court grants bail to Siddique Kappan in PMLA case

The Lucknow bench of the Allahabad High Court granted bail to journalist Siddique Kappan today in a case filed against him under the Prevention of Money Laundering Act. Kappan’s lawyer Mohamed Dhanish confirmed the news to Newslaundry.

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In Delhi, sanitation workers allegedly asked to pay ‘bribes’ to keep their jobs

“It is still painful,” said Rajwati, lifting her kurti to show a painful bruise near her ribs. “I have a fever as well. But now, I think twice before spending even Rs 10 on paracetamol.”

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NL Playoffs Ep 33: Argentina’s spectacular World Cup win

Newslaundry subscribers Aniketh Kalur and Gowtham Kode discuss Argentina’s win at the FIFA World Cup in Qatar.

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19 cases of newspapers being censured over fake news since April 2018: Govt

There have been 19 cases of newspapers being censured over fake news since April 2018, the union ministry of information and broadcasting told the Rajya Sabha on Thursday.

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‘A burning issue’: How the Sangh family is spearheading protests in Maharashtra for a love jihad law

Over the last 30 days, affiliates of the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh have spearheaded high-intensity protests across Maharashtra. Alongside a coterie of similar Hindutva outfits, they all have a single demand – the enactment of a “love jihad” law in the state.

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