Journalist or not?

IN Media Watch Briefs | 16/03/2016

The TOI's reporting of the case involving the reporting of an RTI reply in Milli Gazette is intriguing. Three other papers describe Pushp Sharma who was picked up by the police on March 15 as a journalist working for Milli Gazette. But TOI does not mention the publication and insists on calling him a man "claiming to be a journalist." The case involves an article written by Sharma purportedly based on an RTI reply given by the Ayush ministry. The ministry said the reply was fabricated to imply communal bias on the ministry's part and the police registered an FIR.