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Women journalists who were attacked prevented from reporting, protest attacks
Delhi, Uttar Pradesh and Madhya Pradesh, on-ground reporting by women journalists, invites threats and abuse from the authorities; is it a coincidence that all three states are ruled by the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP)?
Rohingyas sue Facebook for $150 billion over failing to police communal hate speech
A class-action complaint was filed in California and in a coordinated action, British lawyers also submitted a letter of notice to Facebook's London office
SC stays further proceedings in FIRs against journalists Samridhi Sakunia, Swarna Jha, Arti Ghargi
The Supreme Court issued notice on a writ petition challenging the FIRs against HW Network's journalists registered by the Tripura police over the reportage about communal violence
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
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