There were no social media or messaging apps when the Nellie massacre occurred. Yet it happened. Media reporting is taking the easy way out,
He was one of the New Journalists, who wrote nonfiction using the techniques of fiction.
Ravish Kumar chooses issues that affect large numbers of ordinary people in small towns. And the authorities are taking note.
Nihal Singh did everything journalists dream of doing. It was a good life as reporter, editor, author, rubbing shoulders with the famous, and travelling the world.
He edited many newspapers in his career and was widely read as a foreign correspondent from many capitals.
Reporter, foreign correspondent, editor--his writing was trenchant till the end. The media space is poorer today because a principled man of words is gone.
Do nominations to the Rajya Sabha compromise journalism? If you are an editor yes, If you are a media owner perhaps, but not if you are a talking head on TV.
Mevani’s rejection of Republic TV raises a question: if media houses operate as hate-mongers, are they entitled to professional access?
.....Kashmiri women reporting on issues unrelated to the conflict and a farmer’s daughter on local radio.
The film star’s promise of a new ‘’spiritual politics’ may sit uneasily in a state where rationalism and atheism have held sway for 50 years.