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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 Tops List of Nations Seeking Blocking Journalists, News Outlet Tweets: Twitter Report
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The US (34%) and India (51%) together accounted for 85% of all global preservation requests made to block accounts in the micro-blogging site.
Pune: Student body alleges irregularities in filling reserved category seats, calls for protest
"It is also highly questionable why only candidates from the general category are able to clear their cut off, while those from other categories aren’t," the student body said in its press release.
Times Now conducts a virtual media trial of Teesta Setalvad, CJP moves NBDSA
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Times Now fails to respond to CJP’s complaint against the three prime-time debate shows aired on their channel
NBDSA acts on CJP’s complaint, directs News18 to take down fake news video about bombing in WB school
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Channel asked to take down the video and send confirmation to NBDSA in writing within 7 days of receiving the order
Kashmiri journalist Aakash Hassan ‘stopped’ from travelling abroad
Aakash Hassan, an independent Kashmiri journalist alleged being stopped...
Arrest of journalist and HRD Rupesh Kumar Singh
Human Rights Defenders Alert -India writes to the National...
Is Facebook shirking responsibility for enabling the spread of hate in India?
Recent human rights report instead lauds the platform for helping civil society
Twitter moves Karnataka High Court against MeitY order to take down over 1,400 accounts
Twitter informs the court that they have been ordered to take down accounts without being told which specific tweets merit such an action
Zee News faces flak for allegedly airing Rahul Gandhi’s doctored byte
Congress moves NBDSA, channel sacks two employees
Justice Pardiwala raises concerns over personal attacks on judges via social media
The Supreme Court judge faced criticism from sundry right-wing trolls after he and Justice Surya Kant made oral observations about Nupur Sharma's role in sparking communal violence
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