In a trenchant order, Justices Ranjit V. More and Bharati H. Dangre, quashed the charges against Quint journalist Poonam Agarwal of abetment to suicide and of violating provisions of the Official Secrets Act (OSA). The case followed the sting operation the journalist had conducted to exposed the pernicious […]
The hullabaloo caused by the leaked ‘Pentagon Papers’ revealing uncomfortable truths about US’s role in the Vietnam war five decades ago, resonates with the attempts to gag the media from publishing documents related to the Rafale case in India. M.Sridhar Acharyulu shines a spotlight on the RTI which […]
by Geeta Seshu As Pulwama and other constituencies in Jammu and Kashmir go into the final phase of polling for the parliamentary elections on May 6, 2019, one of the Valley’s major English dailies is minus its brilliant cartoonist. “It’s really, really tough. The self-censorship we impose on […]
बस्तर की पत्रकारिता का सच : इधर कुंआ उधर खाई Watch this special report from Bhumkal Samachar on the perils of reporting in Bastar. (with permission from Bhumkal Samachar) आज विश्व प्रेस स्वतंत्रता दिवस है , इस दिवस का उद्देश्य प्रेस की आजादी के महत्व के प्रति जागरूकता […]
Excerpted from the India chapter of ‘Truth vs Misinformation: The collective push back’ South Asia Press Freedom Report 2018-2019, released by UNESCO on the occasion of World Press Freedom Day May 3, 2019 LITIGATION OVERLOAD The thicket of litigation that has sprung up over particular stories is a […]
World Press Freedom Day: KJA demands release of Aasif Sultan Remembers slain editor Shuja’at Bukhari Srinagar: On the occasion of World Press Freedom Day, Kashmir Journalists Association has demanded immediate release of incarcerated journalist Aasif Sultan so that journalists are allowed to work freely in Jammu and Kashmir […]
Rajen Deka’s news item in Dainik Asom, an Assamese daily last Thursday morning about a skirmish between BJP and Congress workers during the third phase of Lok Sabha elections left many in the saffron party angry. The news item highlighted how security forces prevented an alleged plan of […]
A Free Speech Collective focus for World Press Freedom Day, May 3, 2019 The media community in the Kashmir Valley has witnessed a year of intense turmoil. Barely a month after World Press Freedom Day on May 3, 2018, senior journalist Shujaat Bukhari was gunned down in the […]
