Tips on disaster reporting
BY Dilnaz Boga| IN MEDIA PRACTICE |04/06/2015
If Indian reporters had followed these tips during the Nepal earthquake, they would not have been reviled.
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Journalists look for solutions to Asia's problems
BY Dilnaz Boga| IN MEDIA FREEDOM |19/03/2014
"Challenges of a Free Press" was the topic of discussion at the 4th International Media Conference in Yangon.
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"Journalists doing their jobs were beaten up and fired upon"
BY Dilnaz Boga| IN MEDIA FREEDOM |16/03/2011
The clampdown for more than seven months last year during the agitation in Kashmir severely restricted media freedom, but journalists keep finding different ways to break the silence.
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Amazon resisting voluntary censorship
The new term for self censorship is voluntary censorship, as proposed by companies like Netflix and Hotstar. ET reports that streaming video service Amazon Prime is opposing a move by its peers to adopt a voluntary censorship code in anticipation of the Indian government coming up with its own rules. Amazon is resisting because it fears that it may alienate paying subscribers.                   
Let the games begin

Clearly, the run to the 2019 elections is on. A journalist received a call from someone saying they were from Aajtak channel and were conducting a survey, asking whom she was going to vote for in 2019. On being told that her vote was secret, the caller assumed she wasn't going to vote for 'Modiji'. The caller, a woman, also didn't identify herself. A month or two earlier the same journalist received a call, this time from a man, asking if she was going to vote for the BSP.                 

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