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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...
ACJ announces Journalists Awards 2020
The jury hails stories of communal riots and prison injustice, winning entries exposed uncomfortable truths
SC quashes Sedition case against journalist Vinod Dua
It held that every journalist is entitled to protection under the Kedarnath judgment
SC mulls laying guidelines for application of Sedition law on journalists
The court was dealing with a petition filed by two news channels who were charged under sedition and observed that the terms used in the FIR amounted to muzzling of the media
Why did Twitter censor a basic tweet on Nehru?
Stanford scholar Vibhav Mariwala’s tweet sharing a link to an article on Jawaharlal Nehru, was marked as ‘sensitive’ content
CJP files complaint with Twitter over sexually abusive content against Muslim women
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A sexualised campaign is being run by fake accounts, glorifying hate and violence against Muslim women
Punjab-based Youtuber arrested for “racist and anti-India” video
Paras Singh has been booked by Arunachal police under IPC Sections 124A (Sedition),153A , and 505(2) (promoting enmity)
Whatsapp moves Delhi HC challenging GoI’s traceability clause
The clause requires the messaging platform to identify the originator of a message forwarded multiple times, and Whatsapp sees this as an invasion of privacy, and a form of surveillance
Facebook, Twitter could face legal action in India
Action could be initiated for non-compliance with a February 25 notification that mandated for appointment of certain officials
Covid-19 claims Jarnail Singh and Rajkumar Keswani
The two journalists had tried to make the Indian state accountable for two different 1984 tragedies
Covid-19: Centre tells social media firms to remove ‘Indian variant’ references
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