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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…

Newslaundry · Oct 13, 2022

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”.

Newslaundry · Jul 4, 2022

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.

Newslaundry · May 28, 2022

TB and the woeful state of health reporting in India

In January 2017, the Indian media reported on an exceptional legal battle playing out before the Delhi High Court regarding a young lady suffering from multi-drug resistant tuberculosis, suing the Indian government for access to a new TB drug called bedaquiline that was supposed to be effective on TB patients resistant to…

Newslaundry · May 10, 2018