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Newsrooms that Swallow Whales
One of the contemporary lamentations — including from legacy media houses themselves — is that big business has devoured television news channels. Titled “Newsrooms that Swallow Whales,” this visual-and-verbal...
India 2016-17: The silencing of journalists
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First Published on: May 4, 2017As attacks on journalists...
In Bangladesh, Govt Treats Journalism As a Crime: Amnesty
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Bangladesh media faces more restrictions now than ever, Amnesty’s...
Facebook’s new anti-fake news strategy is not going to work – but something else might
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Hindutva Hawks: Complaint against Rajdeep Sardesai, Nandini Sundar on India Today TV
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Columnist Who Calls for Mob Violence against Muslims, Later Deletes Post
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“All humanists, rationalists and fighters for social and economic justice must unite to fight the usurpers of our democracy and our history”
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