Intentional Journalism Owes a Debt to the Dead in a Swedish Mass Shooting
As the mass murder that took the lives of 10 innocent people in Sweden disappears from the international news map, there remains a debt to the dead that will likely…
Journalism
Israel Calling Journalists Terrorists Decried as ‘An Attempt to Preemptively Justify Their Murder’
Seasoned observers of Israeli disinformation campaigns on Wednesday responded with pointed skepticism to a claim by the country's military that half a dozen Al Jazeera journalists are linked to militant Palestinian resistance…
Upholding Gandhian Values of Truth, Justice and Nonviolence for Journalism Today!
This is the essence of a talk given at the ICPA National Convention of Christian Journalists held in Mangalore on 2 October 2024 It is good to be here at…
The Right of journalists to criticise governments fearlessly
The recent remark made by the Supreme Court is a significant event that has revitalized the fundamental rights of freedom of expression for journalists. The core of journalism in a…
From Delhi Gang Rape and Murder to Kolkata Rape and Murder: The same exclusionary media discourse continues
by Dr. Ugen Bhutia and Dr. Maanvender Singh It is no coincidence that the rape and murder of a doctor at Kolkata's R.G. Kar Medical College and Hospital on August…
How Fake News Poses a Menace in the News Ecosystem?
"What if I say Mr. Modi sold tea at a platform in Gujarat, or that biryani was served in Shaheen Bagh during the CAA and NRC protests, or that Congress…
Assange’s Release: Exposing the Craven Media Stable
The WikiLeaks project was always going to put various noses out of joint in the journalistic profession. Soaked and blighted by sloth, easily bought, perennially envious, a good number of…
Kudos to Journalists Who Tell the Truth
UNESCO should be congratulated for awarding the Guillermo Cano World Press Freedom Prize for 2024 to Palestinian journalists covering Gaza. The prize this year was announced in Santiago, Chile in…
U.S. Media Layoff Hundreds Of Journalists
Parts of U.S. media are laying off hundreds of journalists. The Messenger, a U.S. online news site that promoted itself to deliver unbiased and trusted news, abruptly shut down Wednesday…
The Exodus to YouTube: Journalists Flee Mainstream Media in India’s Challenging Ecosystem
The resonating voice of Ravish Kumar, an emblematic figure in Indian journalism, echoed on November 30, 2022, as he announced his departure from NDTV after 27 years. This pivotal moment…
An Important Book on Hindi Journalism that Deserves Wide Attention
A recent book on Hindi journalism edited by Atal Tewari and published by Setu Prakshan is a very welcome addition to the rather limited literature on Hindi journalism relative to…
Three New Laws Before Parliament Give Govt Sweeping New Powers To Control Journalism, Entertainment & Internet
Three new proposed laws on broadcasting, telecommunications, and personal data protection are vague and broad enough to give the government power to selectively censor news content, imperil encrypted communication, make…
Are there enough Dalit Muslims in the media?
How many of you watch news on TV ? The audience was asked from the dais in an auditorium on December 16. Not a single hand went up. This shows…
Ensure Freedom of The Press: An Appeal to Chief Justice of India
To, D.Y. Chandrachud Chief Justice of India Dear Chief Justice Chandrachud, We write this letter as a voluntary and free coalition of organisations that represent the free press and who…
Speak Truth to Power and Pay the Price!
These are critical times in India’s history: in fact, whether we would like to accept it or not, it is a break or make moment! At stake is the future…
Silencing the Fourth Estate: India’s Press Freedom Ranking Continues to Slide, Ranks 161st among 180 Countries
The past few years, we have seen the ranking of India in the World Press Freedom Index has been declining steadily. Two years back, in 2021, India slipped two spots…
Defend Journalism Now, Says DUJ on World Press Freedom Day
The Delhi Union of Journalists salutes all journalists and other employees in the media sector on the 30th World Press Freedom Day. Proclaimed by the United Nations in 1993, the…
Press Freedom in India – Foreign Correspondent’s Survey Spills the Bean
The Foreign Correspondents’ Club in Delhi has done three surveys with a foreign journalist based in Delhi that has some startling revelation that reflects on the freedom of the press…
Silencing The Lambs, How Propaganda Works
In an address to the Trondheim World Festival in Norway, John Pilger charts the history of power propaganda and describes how it appropriates journalism in a 'profound imperialism' and is…
Journalists in India Face Many-Sided Threats
On May 3 World Freedom Day ten international human rights and press freedom organizations (including the Committee to Protect Journalists and PEN America) expressed serious concern at the increasing assaults…
Confronting the Media’s Crisis of Trust – Some Candid Thoughts
Lack of trust in the news media is the news these days. The reasons are; rampant misinformation, the rise of authoritarian governments, the dominance of social media, etc. are adding…
A Restructured Media in a Post-neo-liberal Framework and its Impact in India
Background To understand the manoeuvrings of media, the framework within which the media is situated during specific paradigms of governance needs to be understood. Historically, there are links between forms…
How Corporate Propaganda Shapes Public Opinion
When journalism became Churnalism - the churning out of massive amount of articles in a relatively short period of time, it turned journalism into a form of corporate propaganda that…
Churnalism’s Manipulation of The News
As one might have expected, the already severe problems of Churnalism have become even worse with the arrival of news’ websites demanding ever faster output. Churnalism is a form of…
What Solidarity Journalism Reveals to Us
Solidarity reporting calls on journalists to push beyond reporting the easy soundbite from an official press release in order to do the work of representing people experiencing injustice. Imagine that…
Journalism in Existential Crisis
When the Wire and Cross-current broke the news of the Assam Chief Minister's family having been involved in a landscam in three different areas of the state,turning govt. land allotted…
45 Journalists Killed In 2021, Violence Against Journalists Remains Global Challenge: IPI Death Watch
In 2021, a total of 45 journalists were killed in connection with their work, IPI research revealed on December 29, 2021. The sombre tally reflects the continued risks of doing…
Some Reflections on Nehru and Journalism Today
Even as human vultures of a wide amalgam -train their guns, on Nehru’s 17 years as Prime Minister, and his role in India’s freedom struggle and the struggle of the…
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Six years ago, I wrote an article that appeared on Countercurrents, just as this one does. The piece was strident, even didactic, but was in large part a plea. The…
Revisiting the Propaganda Model in the age of Social Media
A Review of Andrey Mir’s “Postjournalism and the death of newspapers.” While there are several books analyzing the impact of social media on society, Andrey Mir’s book “Postjournalism and…
We can defeat the corporate media’s war to snuff out independent journalism
My talk at the International Festival of Whistleblowing, Dissent and Accountability on May 8. Transcript below. https://video.emergeheart.info/videos/watch/0e680370-0f59-4110-aaca-d0d0c228f47f?start=0s I wanted to use this opportunity to talk about my experiences over the…
Hartosh Singh Bal to be given the first Mooknayak journalism award
On World Press Freedom day, Radical Desi has announced a new award for the daring journalists who have stood up for the oppressed and questioned the power. Named after the…
They too are journalists who don’t find time at the prime time
A ‘well known’ Hindutva protagonist masquerading as journalist passed away yesterday resulting in a message of ‘condolences and ‘tribute’ right from the Prime Minister and Home Minister to ‘progressive’ ‘liberals’…
The Captive Media in the USA
“A cynical, mercenary, demagogic press will produce in time a people as base as itself." - Joseph Pulitzer A media system set up to serve the…
Role of Editors in News Media
Bhaskar Parichha, a senior journalist, explores the role of editors in swaying public opinion. In recent years the increasing influence of the media has changed the shape of Politics all…
Behind Bars: Arrests and Detentions of Journalists in India 2010-2020
An Analysis of a decade of arrests, detentions, summons, interrogations and show-cause notices against journalists in India 2010-20 The year 2020 has been a bad one for journalists in India.…
40th birth anniversary of Punjabi revolutionary journal Surkh Rekha
This year earlier on September 1st we commemorated the 40th anniversary of Punjabi journal Surkh Rekha,which was a landmark event in the history of Indian revolution. Originally it was the…
Democracy or ‘Kakistocracy’?
The journalists, critics and social media writers today are facing false cases foisted by the State and Police. A senior journalist is fighting a sedition case for criticising the Centre’s…
TV journalism in India: Crying for TRP or Truth
The recent observations of the Hon’ble Supreme Court towards the functioning of media in India seem to be an urgent need of redefining and restructuring the electronic media in accordance…
When Journalists Were Loved, Feared & Respected…
When I was a boy I once heard my father wondering to my mother why “a day did not have more than twenty-four hours”. I know it is difficult to…
Journalists and doctors are victims of Covid, they should learn to join unions
• Journalists, because they can rub shoulders with so-called VIPs, start thinking that they too belong to the elite circle. Over the years many in the profession enjoying good perks,…
BC Punjabi Press Club condemns attack on three journalists in Delhi
The Punjabi Press Club of British Columbia (PPCBC) has come out with a strong statement against assaults on three reporters by the supporters of ruling Hindu nationalist Bhartiya Janata Party…
Journalists struggle for press freedom in Kashmir
‘Freedom of press’ means the right to print and publish without any interference from the state or any other public authority. But this, Freedom, like other freedoms, cannot be absolute…
The plight of Journalists in Bangladesh in the age of Covid-19
Eidul Azha, a sacrificial festival for the Muslim, is due in Bangladesh on Saturday and many other countries. It is one of the two largest Islamic festivals. The majority Muslim…
Retrenchment, Attack and Arrest of Journalists during COVID 19
The most stringent nationwide lockdown was imposed during the start of covid19 pandemic. This caused widespread retrenchment and job cuts throughout the country. The journalists of mass media have not…
Watching God vs No God Media ‘Dangal’ in Tamil Nadu
There is a media ‘dangal’ going on in Tamil Nadu between those who believe in god’s party and those who do not. A fictitious pro god party is created with…
Oligarchs of Mainstream Mass Media in Service of Capitalism
In early 15th century Europe, news used to be political, economic, military and diplomatic messages of the ruling classes. There was no mass media. It was often the voices of…
Condemn the hate campaign against independent journalists in Tamil Nadu!
Indian Democracy Matters, strongly condemns the vicious social media campaign being carried out against certain senior journalists in Tamil Nadu, who are known for their independent and unbiased views on…
COVID-19 has exposed the vulnerability of Journalists in India
The suicide by a scribe jumping from the roof top of the All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS) on July 6, 2020 was shocking. Journalist Tarun Sisodia (37) was…
Spiteful Authority: Malaysia Goes for the Journalists
Malaysia’s record on letting journalists be is a blotted one. This month, authorities have been kept busy intimidating the independent news outlet Malaysiakini, with a seven-member federal court panel agreeing…
Terrorist, Don and Bahubali: Role of Media in the Construction and Institutionalisation of Categories
Eight police personnel lost their lives in the Kanpur crime scene in Uttar Pradesh in a gunfire from the history-sheeter, criminal Vikas Dubey. Vikas Dubey is not the first or…
Criminalising Journalism: Australia’s National Security Craze
There has been a lot of noise made in Australia about the need for broader protections when it comes to the fourth estate and the way it covers national security…
Sinking into a dark pit yet no question can be asked. Why?
The massive financial downturn caused by the COVID-19 infection around the world is not new news today. Renowned economists have already written numerous articles on the impact of the financial…
Indian Media looking but not acting East?
Co-Written by Sanket Nayak and Abhimanyu Hazarika Recent coverage of events outside the national and financial capitals reopens the debate of improving regional disparities in news Three natural tragedies…
Shujaat Bukhari: The journalist of a common man
The profession of journalism in the conflict zone is very challenging, difficult and risky. There is a very thin line which determines balance of the loyalty, bias and narrative of…
Another Corona warrior: Media
On 22nd March, 2020, to show gratitude to doctors, paramedics, policemen and sanitation workers, lakhs of people came on their balcony to emote their sentiments and were seen beating in…
Navigating War: Has The War In Syria Also Destroyed Journalism?
When a veteran war reporter like Robert Fisk constructs his argument regarding the siege of Aleppo based on 'watching' video footage, then one can truly comprehend the near impossibility of…
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