BY N. P. CHEKKUTTY| IN REGIONAL MEDIA |25/04/2018
Kerala youths were drawn into violent protests over the Kathua case by anonymous WhatsApp calls made by shadowy
“Stop killing journalists in the Commonwealth”
BY NUPUR BASU| IN MEDIA FREEDOM |18/04/2018
With 57 dead over five years, the heads of state arriving for CHOGM will be given a code of conduct to force them to pay attention
Re-examining the Mandsaur agitation
BY ANKITA PANDEY| IN MEDIA MONITORING |28/06/2017
A farmers’ agitation that turned violent resulting in six deaths in Mandsaur, MP, prompted a detailed analysis in both the Nai Dunia and the Indian Express
There is another side to the Sukma killings
BY JYOTI PUNWANI| IN MEDIA PRACTICE |05/05/2017
Without explaining the context, reports on the killing of CRPF jawans in Bastar make little sense except as easy hate-mongering.
The stories that triggered the violence
BY GEETA SESHU| IN MEDIA FREEDOM |30/04/2017
We analyse the reasons for attacks on journalists and who the perpetrators were for the period January 2016 to April 2017.
IN MEDIA WATCH BRIEFS |22/07/2016
Actress Leslie Jones quit Twitter this week after being subjected to an avalanche of sexist and racist messages following the release of the all-female remake of the iconic 80s film, Ghostbuster. When Jones, who stars in the film, brought the matter to the notice of Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey, some abusers were..
Playing Down the Malda Violence
BY JYOTI PUNWANI| IN OPINION |17/02/2016
Was it because the mob was Muslim and the victims Hindu? The English media’s credibility is at issue.
Dubious ethics in Bengaluru assault reporting
BY GEETA SESHU| IN MEDIA PRACTICE |08/02/2016
The media hypes up racism, but who will call out the racism that Deccan Chronicle and others displayed,
BY Jyoti Punwani| IN MEDIA PRACTICE |01/09/2015
Violence is part of Hardik Patel's psyche. The media reports his talk of breaking hands and gouging out eyes but passes little judgment on it.
Violence against journos in AP
IN MEDIA WATCH BRIEFS |06/01/2015
The Press Council of India has constituted a three-member fact-finding team to probe two cases of violence against journalists in Andhra Pradesh. PCI chairman Justice CK Prasad has asked the state government to take necessary remedial steps so that journalists are allowed to carry out their professional obligations without any impediment...
BY VIKRAM JOHRI| IN MEDIA PRACTICE |19/12/2014
Media coverage of the Uber taxi rape has over-simplified the link between social attitudes and sexual violence.
BY Jyoti Punwani| IN OPINION |03/08/2014
Compare TV coverage of the Saharanpur riot with print's efforts and for once, the former did a better job. But look carefully at riot coverage in general and you find a double standard emerging,
Murder and Maoist rationalisations
BY JAVED IQBAL| IN MEDIA FREEDOM |29/12/2013
One doesn't need to be a state apologist to find something extremely perturbing about just another murder of an unarmed man.
Telugu prime time: violence abounds
BY ANITA NAGULAPALLI and PADMAJA SHAW| IN REGIONAL MEDIA |19/07/2013
During the 30-minute package of programmes in Telugu commercial TV, the 8 or 9 minutes of advertising are the only feel good part.
News can't 'break' a week later
IN MEDIA PRACTICE |27/02/2013
A lathi-charge by Sikkim police gets coverage on TV channels after seven days.
Scribes targeted in Ambala violence
IN MEDIA WATCH BRIEFS |22/02/2013
Journalists in Ambala were severely beaten up during the two-day strike against economic reforms when they were recording police lathi-charges of protestors and relatives of senior trade union leader, Narendra Singh, who was run over by a bus. Kapil Agarwal (Aaj Samaj) was hospitalised while Ujjwal Sharma and Suman Bhatnagar..
African victims don't move Indian media
IN MEDIA PRACTICE |16/02/2013
Violence against Africans in India is not reported as intensively as attacks on Indians in Australia.
Women, popular culture and violence: joining the dots
IN MEDIA PRACTICE |01/01/2013
Music videos have become one of the most insidious offenders, shaping sexist attitudes towards women.
Mobile cameras as game changer
BY Jyoti Punwani| IN OPINION |09/02/2013
When Indian Express printed links to YouTube videos of police action in Dhule, it broke new ground for the media.
IN PRESS LAWS GUIDE |17/09/2012
What are the guidelines in place for reporting on issues relating to communal violence?
BY NAVEEN SOORINJE| IN MEDIA FREEDOM |31/07/2012
Police in Mangalore have filed cases against the journalists who reported and filmed an attack on young people by a Hindu Jagarana Vedike mob.
Radio combats HIV and violence against women
BY Paromita Pain| IN COMMUNITY MEDIA |11/06/2011
Violence against women is rampant in Nepal, and violence has also been a cause of spread of HIV here. Samajhdar, a weekly grassroots radio programme is addressing that.
BY STELLA PAUL| IN COMMUNITY MEDIA |03/06/2010
Varsha, a reporter with the IndiaUnheard community news service, talks about her fight against domestic violence
Your freedom ends where my fist begins
BY Ammu Joseph| IN CENSORSHIP |19/04/2010
Draconian laws, threats, violence and even derisive television anchors – all these techniques, and more, are deployed to curb free expression of opinions.
BY A Dissenter| IN MEDIA PRACTICE |23/10/2009
The liberal-left is getting clobbered in the TV debates on Naxal violence.
Reporting Assam's ethnic cauldron
BY sevanti ninan| IN MEDIA PRACTICE |01/10/2009
Mainstream Amnesia, Part II. Assam burned in the two months under review but with the exception of the Indian Express and the Hindu there was no analytical reporting.
Media complicity in Mumbai terror
BY Sunil Adam| IN MEDIA PRACTICE |07/12/2008
The visual media and terrorism have a mutually reinforcing relationship, which needs to be broken to the detriment of the latter..
Hotel Taj: Icon of whose India?
BY Gnani sankaran| IN MEDIA PRACTICE |02/12/2008
Resilience was another word that annoyed the pundits of news channels and their patrons this time. But the same channels celebrated resilience when bombs went off in trains and markets killing and maiming the Aam Aadmis.
Tackling Hindu and Islamic terror the media way
IN MEDIA PRACTICE |20/09/2008
Can violence that takes lives, destroys communities, and terrorises people be treated differently because different groups are involved?
Orissa violence: lies and media reports
BY Vishal Arora| IN MEDIA PRACTICE |27/08/2008
The newspaper report, which is being circulated by email and on the Web by supporters of the Sangh Parivar, is not only inflammatory, but also factually incorrect.
Guwahati violence and the media
BY Nava Thakuria| IN MEDIA PRACTICE |02/12/2007
A section of media projected the incident simply as an unprovoked attack on the Adivasi demonstrators by the residents of Guwahati.
IN MEDIA WATCH BRIEFS |20/10/2007
What was the comment on a FM radio channel that set off mob violence in Siliguri? It has become a media convention to self censor in such cases, so nobody reported either the remark or the name of the offending channel. The channel was Red FM owned by a consortium..
BY khelkoodkar| IN OPINION |11/04/2006
What happened in Guwahati this Sunday gave some much-needed ammo to our sports writers.
The media’s hand in masking identities
BY s r ramanujam| IN MEDIA PRACTICE |24/07/2005
How do we then identify those who adopt violence as their religion for perceived injustice to religion? Simply call them "Asians"!
BY Manjula Lal| IN MEDIA PRACTICE |11/12/2004
The common woman has good reason not to get worked up about the issue of violence against women. A response to Ammu Joseph`s article.
BY Ammu Joseph| IN MEDIA PRACTICE |08/12/2004
The challenge before the media is to move beyond clubbing what happens to women with routine crime briefs, on the one hand, and sensational stories, on the other, to cover "the greatest human rights scandal of our times".
Hanging sparks theatrics in Indian state
IN MEDIA PRACTICE |30/08/2004
After the media overkill of the hanging of Dhananjoy Chatterjee, which spurred a rash of play time hangings by children in West Bengal, popular folk opera plans to exploit the story.
| IN MEDIA WATCH BRIEFS |24/04/2004
Violence in the Kashmir Valley is not news any more unless victims of a fatal attack either reach double figures or a VIP has been targeted. So when a grenade was lobbed at former chief minister Farooq Abdullah’s convoy in Budgaum on April 18, it evo
‘Karachi captured’: subcontinental cricketing wars
BY Subarno Chattarji| IN MEDIA PRACTICE |15/03/2004
The cricketers are now the avatars of a nation’s sublimated violence that will be enacted on the playing fields of Pakistan.
Reporting In times of conflict
BY Dasu Krishnamoorty| IN MEDIA PRACTICE |09/03/2004
To keep the Gujarat pot boiling is to impede the healing process.
Why is a pogrom called a riot?
BY Manjula Lal| IN MEDIA PRACTICE |23/04/2002
Covering Communal Violence: Some Norms And Lapses
IN MEDIA PRACTICE |22/04/2002
Domestic violence and the media
BY Rema Nilkantan| IN MEDIA PRACTICE |22/04/2002
BY Mohammed Shafiq| IN MEDIA PRACTICE |18/04/2002
A NEW WAVE OF VIOLENCE HITS THE PRESS IN BANGLADESH
IN MEDIA FREEDOM |14/04/2002
How many journalists were actually killed in 2001?
IN MEDIA FREEDOM |13/04/2002
BY Akhila Shivdas| IN BOOKS |12/04/2002
BY Himal| IN MEDIA PRACTICE |12/04/2002
SCINDIA PHOOLAN DEVI AND THE MEDIA
BY S.Anand| IN MEDIA PRACTICE |12/04/2002
Media Violence and its Impact on Children A Five-City Study by CFAR
IN MEDIA PRACTICE |06/04/2002
Twelve Ways The Media Misrepresents Violence
IN MEDIA PRACTICE |18/03/2002
Why Navakaal was charged with contempt of court
IN MEDIA PRACTICE |01/01/1900
IN OPINION |01/01/1900
The dilemmas of partisanship
