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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...
New IT Rules: How Centre is planning to address online grievances
The Government has set up a strict grievance redressal mechanism for users in a bid to make the online world more transparent and accountable
Ethics Code for Social Media, rules for OTT platforms, online news
Provision for identification of first originator of information on messaging services
Unnao reports: Twitter handles of Barkha Dutt’s portal, 7 others booked
Others accused are, Janjagran Live, Aazad Samaj Party spokesperson Suraj Kumar Boudh, Nilim Dutta, Vijay Ambedkar, Abhay Kumar Azad, Rahul Diwakar, Nawab Satpal Tanwar
Allahabad HC has not ordered evictions of Surma villagers of Dudhwa Forest
TOI mis-reports a court order that said, if the dwellers are indulging in illegal acts, appropriate authority must take action; headline misleads readers
Media cannot report in a sensationalised manner: Delhi HC on Disha Ravi’s plea
The Single-judge Bench has directed editors to exercise control while disseminating information and Disha Ravi to not ‘malign’ the police
Delhi HC issues notice to NBSA, channels on Disha’s plea alleging information leak
In her plea, Disha alleged that the Delhi Police leaked information to the media related to the toolkit FIR against her
SC registry: Suo moto contempt against Rajdeep Sardesai erroneously listed
The case was shown to be registered based on a petition filed in September 2020 by Haryana resident Aastha Khurana through Advocate Omprakash Parihar
113 hours raiding multiple locations, it is still not clear why the ED is investigations Newsclick
Will continue to do what a news organisation should do… cover people’s issues… take positions: Prabir Purkayastha
ED Raids & NewsClick: Weaponising law by Criminalising Free Speech
Image: Telegraph The People’s Union for Civil Liberties(PUCL) has issued...
Sections of media add communal fuel to Rinku Sharma murder
Some have started spreading ‘information’ that Sharma was killed because he was a Hindu, a BJP and VHP volunteer
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