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In a special episode for Press Freedom Day, Newslaundry’s Abhinandan Sekhri, Raman Kirpal, Manisha Pande and Jayashree Arunachalam are joined by historian and author Ramachandra Guha. The panel begins with a discussion on the history of press freedom in India. Ram reflects on the similarities and differences between 1975’s Emergency…

For the first time in the history of the Press Freedom Index, published annually by Reporters Without Borders, the conditions for practising journalism are “difficult” or “very serious” in over half of the world’s countries and satisfactory in fewer than one in four.

'मेरी सरकार से अपील है कि या तो मुझे यहीं रख लें नहीं तो मेरे साथ मेरे परिवार को भी भेजा जाए. मैं भला अपना परिवार छोड़ कर क्यों जाऊं? किसी को भी अपना परिवार क्यों छोड़ना पड़े? आपने कभी यह सुना है कि किसी बाप को बॉर्डर पर रोका…

डिजिटल मीडिया पब्लिशर्स एंड जर्नलिस्ट्स एसोसिएशन (डिजिपब) ने यूट्यूब चैनल 4पीएम पर अलोकतांत्रिक तरीके से लगाए गए प्रतिबंध की निंदा की. 

At 6 am, with the sun just rising over Delhi, Akash Singh* is already on the move. A Zepto delivery worker, he zigzags between Laxmi Nagar and Mayur Vihar, chasing the shifting incentive targets set by the app.

In a statement on Thursday, the Digital Media Publishers and Journalists Association condemned the “undemocratic and “unconstitutional” banning of YouTube channel 4PM.

The Network of Women in Media, India has demanded the Indian government to drop criminal cases against satirists and political commentators Neha Singh Rathore, Madri Kakoti, and Shamita Yadav.

Days after he was pulled up for bizarre remarks accusing Hamdard’s Rooh Afza of “sharbat jihad”, Patanjali founder Baba Ramdev has again drawn flak from the Delhi High Court, according to LiveLaw.

From drum waali Muskaan to ‘beauty parlour jihad’, while mainstream news channels have dedicated hours and hours of airtime to amplify sensationalist stories and communal rhetoric, how seriously have they taken up the issue of increasing air pollution?