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Peoples Dispatch
Did the Indian Government Use Israeli Spyware to Target Activists and Journalists?
01 Nov 2019
WhatsApp has filed a case against the NSO group, the Israeli developer of the Pegasus spyware which can be used to steal information from targets. At least 1,400 people were targeted with this…
Newsclick Report
Over 400 Academics Worldwide Demand Immediate Lifting of Kashmir Blackout
26 Sep 2019
In a letter to a UN body, professors and researchers from universities, such as Yale, Harvard, UCLA, Princeton among others, have also sought immediate release of detainees and curbs on press freedom…
Newsclick Team
UP, Kashmir, Assam: Journalists Are the Target
06 Sep 2019
In recent times, attacks on journalists have intensified in the country as the government has gone all out to impose restrictions on reporting that exposes their failures and misdeeds.
Anoushka Mathews
What Is Future of Independent Media in India?
19 Jun 2019
During the Emergency, it was said that when the media was asked to bend, they crawled. But what we see today is much worse – a situation where the mainstream media is crawling without even being…
Sagrika Kissu
Kashmir: Dangerous Times for Media in the Valley
19 Jun 2019
Two photojournalists were recently beaten up and harassed and their cameras snatched for performing their professional duties.
Saurabh Sharma
‘I Was Targeted Because I Exposed Railway-Vendor Racket’
13 Jun 2019
The attack on journalist Amit Sharma and arrest of freelance Prashant Kanojia are a wake-up call for the fraternity, which has been facing government wrath in UP.
Live Law
Wife of Journalist Prashant Kanojia Moves SC Seeking His Release
10 Jun 2019
Jagisha Arora, wife of Prashant Kanojia, journalist arrested by UP Police on Saturday for allegedly making defamatory comments against UP CM Yogi Adityanath online, has moved a habeas corpus petition…
Manu Sebastian/Live Law
Why the Arrest of Journalist Prashant Kanojia by UP Police is Illegal?
09 Jun 2019
It appears to be a blatant abuse of power because the offences in the FIR do not justify the arrest
Cyril Sam
Media Pluralism in India Under Threat: RSF
03 Jun 2019
The Reporters Without Borders’ report observes high media audience concentration, highly unregulated cross-media ownership, high political control and funding, lack of transparency and missing data.
Kanwaljeet Singh
What Do Manifestos Speak About Press Freedom?
20 May 2019
As elections come to an end, it remains to be seen what the key parties will do with regard to romises made with regard to media cross-ownership and monopolies.