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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...
Anirban Roy Choudhury, editor of Barak Bulletin, accused of Sedition
An FIR has been registered U/S 153 - A, 124 -A, 501 and 505 of Indian Penal Code, for an editorial published on November 28; Choudhury is expected to report to Silchar Sadar Police Station today
Vinod Dua passes away at 67
The veteran journalist passed away on Saturday after a prolonged post-Covid illness
Will the gov’t continue to restrict journalists’ access to Parliament?
A protest march was held on December 2, against the various restrictions on media’s entry into Parliament and the Press Gallery
Why are Parliament proceedings still restricted for most journalists?
Citing Covid protocol the regime grants access to only select media personnel, restricting access to others; journalists to hold a protest march
Editors Guild of India sends fact-finding team to Agartala
Team to investigate reports of draconian laws being used to prevent media from reporting communal violence in Tripura
Minor technicality allows Zee News to avoid answering for its communal “Zameen Jihad” show
CJP Team -
CJP had moved NBDSA over the Islamophobic, inflammatory and hateful content of the show, but a minor delay of six days allowed Zee News to dodge the inquiry citing statute of limitations
Tripura: Journalists still make headlines for surviving attacks, rather than reporting them
Various journalists covering the aftermath of Tripura’s communal violence have been questioned, detained, arrested, allegedly even beaten up , for doing their jobs
NBDSA finds Zee News violated Code of Ethics in coverage of Farmers’ Protest
Use of provocative captions condemned, Zee news ordered to take down videos
UAE Princess pushes for Sudheer Chaudhary’s name to be dropped from Abu Dhabi event
He is all set to speak at an even by ICAI, but pressure is mounting to drop his name from the list of speakers
Videos of News Nation’s “Conversion Jihad” show to be taken down: NBDSA
CJP Team -
CJP had complained about blatant vilification of the minority community in the programme where the anchor constantly used terms and phrases that incited hate against Muslims
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