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Bombay HC asks Centre, Maharashtra and Ten Media Houses to Respond to PIL by Journalists’ Unions over COVID-19 Lay Offs
03 Jun 2020
The two journalists’ unions filed a PIL, calling the recent moves by media houses to lay off employees or cut their salaries “illegal and arbitrary”.
Anees Zargar
J&K: Government Comes up with Media Policy to Create ‘Sustained Narrative’, Flag Reportage
03 Jun 2020
Pertinently, the new media policy comes at a time when authorities have been accused of muzzling press freedom in the region.
Neelambaran A
COVID-19: Tamil Nadu Media Houses Retrench Employees Suddenly
23 May 2020
The mainstream media shied away from their conventional style of ‘breaking the news’ on termination of the media employees. The government of Tamil Nadu, too, has remained silent on the massive…
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Allahabad HC Grants Anticipatory Bail to The Wire’s Siddharth Varadarajan
15 May 2020
The co-founding editor of the news portal has been booked by the Uttar Pradesh government and police with criminal charges for allegedly making ‘objectionable’ comments on CM Yogi Adityanath.
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Modi Govt Using Lockdown to Attack Dissenters Under UAPA: UK Diaspora Demands Immediate Release
05 May 2020
The statement mentions the arrests of journalists Masrat Zahra and Peerzada Ashiq, student activists Safoora Zargar, Meeran Haider and Sharjeel Imam, civil rights activist Gautam Navlakha, Dalit…
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Let’s Talk: India Slips in Press Freedom Index; COVID-19 Cases Continue to Rise
05 May 2020
In this episode, we talk to senior journalist Paranjoy Guha Thakurta on the recently released World Press Freedom Index where India has slipped to the 142nd position.
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‘COVID-19 Pandemic Worsening Threat to Global Media Freedom’
21 Apr 2020
Other threats to the future of journalism are economic, with job cuts gutting newsrooms, said Reporters Without Borders.
Paranjoy Guha Thakurta
Media After Covid: Why We Are Under a New ‘Emergency’
02 Apr 2020
The government of India wants the media to stop creating panic by disseminating fake news about the ongoing crisis before first ascertaining from it ‘true’ and ‘factual’ information. On Tuesday, the…
Kashif Kakvi
Lockdown: MP Police Thrash Two Journalists in Three Days, Three Police Personnel Suspended
27 Mar 2020
Bhopal: There has been a spike in incidents of police brutality since a nationwide lockdown imposed due to the COVID-19 pandemic was imposed on March 25.
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Internet Restoration: Low Speed Disappoints Kashmiris
01 Feb 2020
The shutdown has affected Valley’s business community and locals badly.