India’s COVID crisis: Navigating bad stats and government spin
3 years, 11 months ago

India’s COVID crisis: Navigating bad stats and government spin

Al Jazeera  

Indian journalists struggle to report the true extent of the COVID crisis. COVID-19 has brought India to its knees and, in many ways, the mainstream news media are failing to do their job. Contributors: Atul Chaurasia – Executive Editor, Newslaundry Paranjoy Guha Thakurta – Journalist & Author Sandhya Ravishankar – Journalist, India Ahead News Kapil Komireddi – Author, Malevolent Republic On our radar Host Richard Gizbert speaks to producer Flo Phillips about doctored footage coming out of Russia. Attacked on the streets, typecast on TV: a media history of being Asian in America How Asian Americans have been othered in the media; the tropes and the rise in hate. Contributors: Kimmy Yam – Reporter, NBC News Takeo Rivera – Assistant Professor, Boston University Amanda Nguyen – Civil Rights Activist & Founder, Rise

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Book Excerpt: Media’s Role in the India-China War and the 'Real’ Threat to Ties
1 year ago

Book Excerpt: Media’s Role in the India-China War and the 'Real’ Threat to Ties

The Quint  

In October 2012, at a function to release a series of five titles on China edited by the distinguished diplomat K Raghunath, who had retired as Foreign Secretary and served as ambassador to China, NSA Shivshankar Menon had a dig at the Indian media. He referred to how the media in China had treated the 50th anniversary of the 1962 …

South Asia Press Freedom Report exposes alarming media restrictions and corporate influence
1 year, 10 months ago

South Asia Press Freedom Report exposes alarming media restrictions and corporate influence

The Hindu  

Published : May 09, 2023 17:54 IST - 5 MINS READ The recently published South Asia Press Freedom Report 2022-2023, released by the International Federation of Journalists, sheds light on the extensive array of obstacles faced by media outlets in South Asian countries, with India at the forefront. The report, titled “Pressure & Polarisation: Powering Media Resistance in South Asia”, …

Race to the bottom: The Hindu Editorial on the tit-for-tat moves by China and India on media visas
1 year, 11 months ago

Race to the bottom: The Hindu Editorial on the tit-for-tat moves by China and India on media visas

The Hindu  

China’s decision to “freeze” the visas of two Indian journalists, including The Hindu’s Beijing correspondent, has shown how journalists have unfortunately been dragged into rising geopolitical tensions between the neighbours. China’s government, on April 6, 2023 said its decision was a response to India taking steps aimed at Chinese journalists. With Beijing’s retaliatory move, there are only two Indian reporters …

Film on anchor Ravish Kumar ‘angry letter to journalism’ in India
2 years, 6 months ago

Film on anchor Ravish Kumar ‘angry letter to journalism’ in India

Al Jazeera  

While We Watched, a documentary on popular TV journalist, is a ‘wake-up call to how perilous and fragile relationship between free press and democracy is’. In his acceptance speech, Shukla said: “All of us believe at some point in our life that we can be something that is bigger than ourselves and then we spend a lot of time being …

Research paper by IIMC shows how Western media uses half-truths and racist colonial biases against India
3 years, 1 month ago

Research paper by IIMC shows how Western media uses half-truths and racist colonial biases against India

Op India  

Journalism, which Thomas Carlyle referred to as the “fourth pillar of democracy” in his book Heroes and Hero-Worship, is more relevant than ever in the current situation when the entire world is more democratic than ever before. In the final case, The New York Times published an editorial On December 19, 2013, praising the detention of Devyani Khobragade, then-deputy India’s …

Hate speech and online abuse: India’s growing extremism problem
3 years, 2 months ago

Hate speech and online abuse: India’s growing extremism problem

Al Jazeera  

Calls to kill minorities, weak mainstream media and negligent officials – India sees a rising tide of communalism. Amid a spike in anti-minority hate speech, independent journalists in India uncover Hindu extremist gatherings and the truth behind a bizarre mobile app claiming to “sell” prominent Muslim women. Contributors: Samar Halarnkar – Editor, Article 14 Vijayta Lalwani – Journalist R Jagannathan …

Opinion: Calling out Bloomberg’s Racist Fusillade against India
3 years, 2 months ago

Opinion: Calling out Bloomberg’s Racist Fusillade against India

News 18  

The Western media’s anti-India bias that borders on racism and its brazenly hostile agenda against Prime Minister Narendra Modi and the government he heads is well-known. Bloomberg’s recent screed which blames India for the devastation wrought by the Delta variant globally, validates how the Western media is increasingly perceived in India. Instead, Bloomberg has chosen to focus attention on India’s …

Non-fiction books and 2021: The long road to recovery
3 years, 3 months ago

Non-fiction books and 2021: The long road to recovery

The Hindu  

The Oxford Languages word of the year is vax; Merriam-Webster picked vaccine, noting that it has come to represent much more than just medicine. The India story Countries reacted differently to the pandemic and two decisions overwhelmed India — first, the sudden announcement of a national lockdown in March 2020 that put the informal sector in disarray and second, initial …

Opinion| Tale of two Indias: Mr Woke Das goes to Washington
3 years, 4 months ago

Opinion| Tale of two Indias: Mr Woke Das goes to Washington

Firstpost  

The elites consume the morally satisfying discourse of ‘Two Indias’ while the masses who are stuck in that other India they loathe keep voting again and again for the people that elites don’t approve, most of all because they are seen to be Hindu. What is the abject state of degradation of the human spirit, intelligence, and indeed, dignity, in …

Virus Has Shown You Your Place—The Message from Global Media Coverage of Second Wave in India
3 years, 9 months ago

Virus Has Shown You Your Place—The Message from Global Media Coverage of Second Wave in India

News 18  

In Lord Byron’s poem, ‘Childe Harold’s Pilgrimage’, the protagonist Harold, contemplating the grandness of the Colosseum, imagines the condemned gladiator, dignified yet forlorn, butchered for the entertainment of a boisterous, blood lusty Roman crowd out on a holiday. The silent and yet celebratory discourse on India, a country ravaged by the second wave, had one subliminal message: The virus has …

How western media has attacked Modi Sarkar in 7 years of its rule
3 years, 10 months ago

How western media has attacked Modi Sarkar in 7 years of its rule

Op India  

26 May 2021 marks the seventh anniversary of the Modi government in power. The departure of Congress from the centre and the old prejudices fuels Western media’s propaganda blitz against the Modi government The Modi government’s bold governance moves, radical defence measures, and growing assertiveness about its socio-cultural identity ran counter to the beliefs held by the Congress party, and …

COVID-19 biggest crisis India has ever seen: Eminent Indian-American philanthropist
3 years, 10 months ago

COVID-19 biggest crisis India has ever seen: Eminent Indian-American philanthropist

India TV News  

COVID-19 biggest crisis India has ever seen: Eminent Indian-American philanthropist India has been severely affected by the unprecedented second wave of the coronavirus and hospitals in several states are reeling under the shortage of health workers, vaccines, oxygen, drugs and beds. Describing the current COVID-19 crisis as the biggest India has ever faced, an eminent Indian-American philanthropist and venture capitalist …

COVID-19: From criticism of 'vaccine diplomacy' to undercounting of deaths, an overview of global coverage of crisis in India
3 years, 10 months ago

COVID-19: From criticism of 'vaccine diplomacy' to undercounting of deaths, an overview of global coverage of crisis in India

Firstpost  

International media outlets are questioning why the Indian government did not do enough to secure COVID-19 vaccines for its citizens With COVID-19 cases remaining stubbornly high in India, a host of international media outlets have slammed the Central government over its handling of the pandemic. India’s coronavirus situation has been getting international media attention not just because of the scale …

52 journalists died in India due to COVID-19 in last 28 days, 101 in last one year, finds study
3 years, 11 months ago

52 journalists died in India due to COVID-19 in last 28 days, 101 in last one year, finds study

Firstpost  

According to a study conducted by the Delhi-based Institute of Perception Studies, as many as 101 journalists have succumbed to COVID-19 between 1 April, 2020 and 28 April, 2021. She shared the data updated as of 28 April with Firspost, which is given below: Total number of verified COVID-19 positive journalist deaths from 1 April, 2020 to 28 April, 2021: …

Indian journo rushes in with Rohingya argument to counter praise for India
4 years ago

Indian journo rushes in with Rohingya argument to counter praise for India

Op India  

Some Indian journalists are perpetually on the lookout to criticise India. Quoting a tweet posted by the official Twitter account of the Indian Express which discussed how India has been playing a pivotal role in helping the world in the global health crisis through its vaccination policies, Lamsang replied in the affirmative, stating that had it been a European country, …

Five Indian-origin Persons, Indian Activist Feature in TIME Magazine's List of 100 Emerging Leaders
4 years, 1 month ago

Five Indian-origin Persons, Indian Activist Feature in TIME Magazine's List of 100 Emerging Leaders

News 18  

Five Indian-origin personalities, including Twitter’s top lawyer Vijaya Gadde and UK’s finance minister Rishi Sunak, and an Indian activist feature in TIME magazine’s annual list of 100 emerging leaders who are shaping the future”. Sunak’s profile in the TIME feature says that a little over a year ago, the 40-year old was an unknown junior minister in the British government …

Be It Farmers Protest, Covid Deaths or Vaccine Drive, Global Media’s Shrill Headlines Fail the Credibility Test
4 years, 2 months ago

Be It Farmers Protest, Covid Deaths or Vaccine Drive, Global Media’s Shrill Headlines Fail the Credibility Test

News 18  

“Angry farmers storm India’s Red Fort in challenge to Modi,” screams The Washington Post. From the pandemic to the storming of India’s Red Fort, the privileged Western gaze has been a feature of almost all reporting about India in global media. An attempt to demonise India Last week, Joe Biden, the newly inaugurated President of the United States, addressed his …

Media spreads fear over COVID vaccine, paints heart attack death as vaccine casualty
4 years, 2 months ago

Media spreads fear over COVID vaccine, paints heart attack death as vaccine casualty

Op India  

Days after India commenced the world’s largest immunisation exercise against the coronavirus pandemic, several media organisations have resorted to undercutting the Indian Government’s ambitious move by peddling unfounded and baseless apprehensions regarding the efficacy and the alleged side-effects of the indigenously-developed vaccines. The apprehensions regarding the indigenously-developed COVID-19 vaccines were fuelled after a man in Uttar Pradesh’s Moradabad district died …

Covid stories in news media missed voices of women worldwide
4 years, 3 months ago

Covid stories in news media missed voices of women worldwide

Live Mint  

In the past year, women have been disproportionately affected by the covid-19 pandemic, and even though they have borne the brunt of the social, economic and political impacts of the virus, coverage of the disease has been dominated by male voices. Women constituted 19% of experts compared to 77% men in the 175 most highly ranked covid-19 articles across the …

How mainstream media is failing India during a pandemic: Fake news and the migrant crisis amidst Coronavirus lockdown
4 years, 10 months ago

How mainstream media is failing India during a pandemic: Fake news and the migrant crisis amidst Coronavirus lockdown

Op India  

These days, mainstream media has been complaining about how it’s being treated. One can make the argument that Indian journalism is dominated by mainstream media via print and broadcast. It is, therefore, not possible for us to overlook this menace of fake news…” Furthermore, the Press Council of India called upon “media to responsibl ensure dissemination of verified news on …

Diary of a Reporter: After coronavirus, a new India beckons
4 years, 11 months ago

Diary of a Reporter: After coronavirus, a new India beckons

India TV News  

Diary of a Reporter: After coronavirus, a new India beckons While the world has now turned upside down in the wake of the coronavirus epidemic, I believe that we Indians are inherently still the same — eternally in a blissful state “There is no full stop in India,” Mark Tully, a renowned British-Indian journalist who calls India home, once wrote. …

Indian-Americans mourn death of veteran journalist due to coronavirus
4 years, 11 months ago

Indian-Americans mourn death of veteran journalist due to coronavirus

The Hindu  

The Indian-American community mourned the death of veteran journalist Brahm Kanchibotla, who died of coronavirus in the U.S. Kanchibotla, 66, was admitted to a hospital on Long Island in New York on March 28, some five days after he showed symptoms of the novel coronavirus. “Very sad to learn about the passing away of veteran Indian-American journalist Brahm Kanchibotla due …

Coronavirus Outbreak: Editors Guild of India criticises govt stance on news coverage, objects to UP cops' action against The Wire
4 years, 11 months ago

Coronavirus Outbreak: Editors Guild of India criticises govt stance on news coverage, objects to UP cops' action against The Wire

Firstpost  

In a statement published on Twitter, the Editors Guild of India stated that it finds the advice of the Supreme Court ‘gratuitous and unnecessary.’ The Editors Guild of India on Thursday said it was “deeply perturbed” over the government’s statement in Supreme Court earlier this week, and questioned the Centre’s attempt in the apex court to blame the media for …

How Indian journalists were attacked during Delhi violence
5 years ago

How Indian journalists were attacked during Delhi violence

Al Jazeera  

Attacks on reporters during violence that has claimed 47 lives highlight growing risk to journalists in India. Journalists in India say attacks on the media during last week’s deadly anti-Muslim violence in the capital, New Delhi, show deteriorating press freedom in the South Asian nation. Censorship of critical content But experts and journalists say the attacks on reporters covering the …

Attacks on Indian journalists highlight growing intolerance
5 years ago

Attacks on Indian journalists highlight growing intolerance

Associated Press  

NEW DELHI — Reporting in India has never been without its risks, but journalists say attacks on the media during last week’s deadly communal riots between Hindus and Muslims in New Delhi show the situation is deteriorating. But experts and journalists say the attacks on reporters covering the riots — and censorship of critical content in the aftermath of the …

India’s Disinformation War More Complex Than in West: Oxford Prof
6 years, 5 months ago

India’s Disinformation War More Complex Than in West: Oxford Prof

The Quint  

I think we’ve seen in the recent years, and I am sure we’ll see this in the 2019 general elections as well, that Indian journalism, at its best, is outstanding and has a clear commitment to finding truth and reporting it… there are instances in which Indian journalism has been under a lot of pressure from politicians in recent years, …

How media defames people for daring to criticise a journalist. This is what India Today did to me
6 years, 7 months ago

How media defames people for daring to criticise a journalist. This is what India Today did to me

Op India  

It is fairly common these days for “mainstream” media outfits, especially Congress-leaning ones like India Today, to subject social media users to pejorative labeling. Getting back to the point, India Today’s hatchet job begins with victim-hero Anna Vetticad telling her sad, gut-wrenching victimhood tale. All the spectacle in the world, the Durga-esque positioning of Sivagami and Devasena, and the emphasis …

'Hatred for journalism threatens Democracy': Reporters Without Borders asks Indian govt to condemn and question abuse of journalists
6 years, 8 months ago

'Hatred for journalism threatens Democracy': Reporters Without Borders asks Indian govt to condemn and question abuse of journalists

Firstpost  

Reporters Without Borders expressed serious concern at “an alarming deterioration in the working environment of journalists in India” and demanded that the government ensure the safety of journalists who are feeling threatened. The Paris-based media watch group Reporters Without Borders has expressed serious concern at an “alarming deterioration in the working environment of journalists in India” and demanded that the …

Making India safe for journalists
7 years, 6 months ago

Making India safe for journalists

Live Mint  

New Delhi: The murder of journalist Gauri Lankesh has reignited the debate on freedom of the press and the freedom of speech in the country, although the motives behind her killing are yet to be established. According to the not-for-profit organization, Committee to Protect Journalists, between 1992 and 2017, 28 journalists were murdered in a premeditated or spontaneous act in …

Killing journalists: India is not immune to this threat
9 years, 7 months ago

Killing journalists: India is not immune to this threat

Hindustan Times  

Two journalists were fatally shot by a disgruntled former colleague during an on-air report in Moneta, Virginia on Wednesday. Two WDBJ7 journalists, Alison Parker and Adam Ward, were shot dead during a live broadcast The sheer brutality of the attack has undoubtedly stunned everyone, particularly reporters who put it all on the line as they venture out in the field …

Thirty years of progressive, upstanding journalism
10 years, 2 months ago

Thirty years of progressive, upstanding journalism

The Hindu  

THIRTY years in the life of a serious magazine is a significant landmark, especially considering the big changes that have taken place during this period in India, in the South Asian neighbourhood, and in the world beyond. I subsequently elaborated on the theme of the Indian news media “sharing the best and the worst” of the global media scene in …

The glory and the blemishes of the Indian news media
13 years, 2 months ago

The glory and the blemishes of the Indian news media

The Hindu  

One of the great achievements of India is our free and vibrant press. The Times of India said on December 15: “Amartya Sen: People on street can't deal with corruption.” I had said nothing of the sort, as the audio record of the speech confirms, but once that misreporting, coming from a news agency apparently used by many newspapers, is …

Break in news
17 years, 11 months ago

Break in news

Hindustan Times  

So what if their newspapers are better written, their television channels often slicker to watch and their internet portals way more sophisticated than ours? Tabloid journalism was held in fierce contempt and while it was okay to flip through the film rags at the dentist’s or the hairdresser’s, no self-respecting person would ever confuse gossip with news. Whether it’s the …

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