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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...
Why is #JusticeforSupriya trending today?
In March, 23-year-old Supriya Tiwari was found dead near a railway track in Gujarat, months later her family still has no answers
Manipur: Journalist, activist post comment on cow dung, charged under NSA
Journalist Kishorechandra Wangkhem, activist Erendro Leichombam arrested for social media posts that cow urine, dung doesn't cure Covid-19
EC contradicts itself on media-gag demand
While on the one hand it moved SC demanding restrictions on reportage of oral observations of judges, one the other it issues statement saying no such demand was made!
Difference of opinion between two Election Commissioners on EC’s demand for media gag?
After Madras HC’s observations about “murder charges” EC wanted to restrain media from reporting oral observations, but one commissioner dissented
We cannot gag reporting of proceedings: SC dismisses EC’s plea against Madras HC’s ‘murder’ remark
The apex court held that freedom of speech and expression covers freedom to cover court proceedings too
SC refuses to restrain media from reporting HC oral remarks in EC plea
The apex court also defended the high court judges while observing that they are working late nights and they are overwhelmed and asked EC to take the HC comments in the right spirit
Three Mumbai journalists succumb to Covid-19
BUJ demands safety provisions, highlights plight of journalists amidst lockdown
Twitter removes posts critical of gov’t handling of Covid-19 emergency
The suspended accounts are of activists, politicians, who which have called out the way the government has let the Covid-19 crisis worsen
India’s Covid-19 surge through the global lens
Here’s a look at how the unprecedented spread of Covid in India has been covered by international news media, and how they all point towards the Central government’s complacency
Rules for offensive social media content laid down: Delhi HC
The petitioner, in this case had alleged that her photographs from Facebook and Instagram were taken and posted on pornographic sites
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