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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

Three Newslaundry reporters detained by Delhi Police, since released

Delhi Police detained our reporters Ashwine, Astha and Anmol and intern Anshu while they were covering the October 10 protest. They have since been released and are back reporting.

Newslaundry · Oct 10

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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.

Newslaundry · Aug 12

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 –…

Newslaundry · Aug 1

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

The Independent UK · Jul 24

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

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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…

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

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…

Newslaundry · Aug 14, 2024

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Newslaundry · Feb 2, 2024

‘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.

Newslaundry · Dec 23, 2023

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.

Newslaundry · Oct 7, 2023

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…

Newslaundry · Jul 28, 2023

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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Newslaundry · Jun 30, 2023

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…

Newslaundry · Mar 4, 2023

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…

Newslaundry · Dec 15, 2022

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.

Newslaundry · Dec 1, 2022

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…

Newslaundry · Nov 14, 2022

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.

Newslaundry · Oct 15, 2022

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.

Newslaundry · Oct 14, 2022

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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