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Brahmin supremacy, effort for Hindu Rashtra: On News18 show feat Govardhan Peeth Shankaracharya

A conversation between CNN-News18 managing editor Anand Narasimhan and the Shankaracharya of Puri’s Govardhan Peeth is in focus for all the wrong reasons.

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It needs practice to preach: The dichotomy between informed criticism and activist outrage

An article published by Newslaundry on December 28, 2023 – titled “The gap he maintained: The dichotomy between CJI Chandrachud’s words and deeds in 2023” – which can, at best, be described as misplaced outrage, has led me to pen my thoughts in response.

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‘Don’t take foreign media at face value’: Jaishankar to ANI

Hitting out at global media reports on democracy indicators in India, External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar has said that there is no need to take foreign media reports at face value.

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As 2024 dawns, revisit the best of Newslaundry’s work last year

It’s the first day of 2024, a time filled with possibilities after the nostalgia-soaked space between Christmas and New Year’s Day.

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Videos deleted, YouTube channels defunct: What happens when Indian TV is accused of copyright violations

Several Indian news channels have allegedly deleted thousands of videos over the last few days to avoid penalties after copyright violation strikes – a legal process to remove copyrighted content – on YouTube. Most of these videos contained footage of natural disasters from across the globe.

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Reporters Without Orders Ep 303: Highs and lows of the news cycle in 2023

It’s the last episode of Reporters Without Orders for the year, so we’ve got a special episode featuring an all-Newslaundry panel. Hosts Tanishka Sodhi and Basant Kumar are joined by Avdhesh Kumar, Pratyush Deep, Sumedha Mittal and Prateek Goyal to pick through their reportage in 2023 and discuss what worked,…

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NYT sues Microsoft, OpenAI over ‘copyright infringement’

The New York Times has filed a case accusing Microsoft and OpenAI of copyright infringement through their generative artificial intelligence tools, according to a Bar and Bench report.

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Ram Mandir inauguration: ABP Majha anchor weeps as she recalls Lord Ram’s struggles

We’ve still got about 25 days to go until the Ram Mandir’s inauguration in Ayodhya, but the media is already driving us batty with endless coverage.

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2 months after Apple alert row, Amnesty report says 2 journalists targeted with Pegasus

Two months after several politicians and journalists claimed they had received alerts from Apple about “state-sponsored attackers”, an investigation by Amnesty International’s Security Lab in partnership with the Washington Post has now said that at least two journalists in India were recently targeted with Pegasus spyware on their iPhones.

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‘He has Sita and Ram in his name’: Media badgers Yechury after CPIM’s Ram Temple miss

Hours after CPIM’s Politburo member Brinda Karat clarified that no leader from her party will attend the Ram Temple inauguration, a section of the media badgered her party colleague Sitaram Yechury for comments.

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NewsClick HR head moves court to turn approver

NewsClick HR head Amit Chakraborty has reportedly moved court seeking to turn approver in the case accusing the news portal of receiving foreign funds to spread anti-India propaganda.

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Digital Dialogues: Different kinds of censorship, thanks to the broadcast regulation bill

Last month, the central government introduced the draft Broadcasting Services Regulation Bill which, if passed, will likely affect not only platforms like Netflix and Prime Video but also news websites and journalists too.

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Reporters Without Orders Ep 302: NDTV’s viewership, Ram Mandir impact on Ayodhya

This week, host Basant Kumar is joined by Avdhesh Kumar from Newslaundry and Ayush Tiwari from Scroll.

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Hafta letters: Climate policy, COP28 and Zionism

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Indian wrestling loses a champion. Primetime couldn’t care less

There are many women newsroom leaders in the Indian news space. But there was not a single primetime debate on most mainstream channels on the day Olympic medallist Sakshi Malik quit wrestling over a Brij Bhushan Sharan Singh loyalist’s election as the Wrestling Federation of India president.

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Over 30% of ET Prime team fired, week after 120 layoffs at Times Internet

ET Prime has laid off a third of its employees as part of a restructuring process to integrate it with the Economic Times, two senior executives told Newslaundry.

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Three new laws give the govt sweeping powers over journalism, internet, entertainment

Three new legislations give the union government power to censor news content, imperil encrypted communication, make it easier to shut down the internet, and intercept communications with minimal accountability.

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Negotiations, selecting burial sites, graves dug by hand: How 87 Kuki-Zo bodies finally came home

Before the 87 bodies of their loved ones were laid to rest in Churachandpur district in strife-torn Manipur on Wednesday, Kuki-Zo families in the hills had lost hope of ever recovering them. Most of the victims had been killed in the initial phase of ethnic violence in May.

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‘Salaries held up, staff shocked ahead of festive season’: NewsClick says accounts frozen

NewsClick has termed the freezing of its bank accounts as an “administrative-legal siege” and said this has “left all our employees shocked” at the year-end festive season.

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‘Not a medal for Modi, but badge of honour for us’: RJD’s Manoj Jha on unprecedented suspensions

After 14 suspensions last week, as many as 78 other Opposition MPs were suspended in the Lok Sabha and Rajya Sabha on Monday amid disruptions. The Opposition has been demanding a statement from Union Home Minister Amit Shah over the security breach on December 13, , when two youngsters jumped…

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From power cuts to PM tweet: Beyond clickbait, Dawood debacle underlines media’s poor Pak understanding

It wasn’t the first time that rumours of Dawood Ibrahim’s death set sections of the Indian media abuzz. And it was so bad that even OpIndia did a fact-check.

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Reporters Without Orders Ep 301: Changes at BBC India, Haryana’s weakened pollution board

This week, host Tanishka Sodhi is joined by Basant Kumar from Newslaundry, and Astha Savyasachi and Tapasya from The Reporters’ Collective.

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Why a group of journalists in Maharashtra held a symbolic fast for three days

Yesterday, for the third day in a row, hundreds of journalists gathered in a football stadium in Maharashtra’s Nagpur to hold a protest. To coincide with the winter session of the Maharashtra assembly, they held a symbolic fast while wearing black ribbons and praising stalwarts who supported press freedom like…

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‘Your name is on a list’: Times Internet lays off 120 employees in 3 days

Times Internet Limited laid off over 120 employees in the past three days, at least five senior executives confirmed to Newslaundry. TIL is the digital division of the Times Group, housing verticals like iDiva, MensXP and Cricbuzz.

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After NDTV, Adani acquires 50.5% stake in news agency IANS

Adani group-owned AMG Media Networks Ltd has acquired a 50.5 percent stake in Delhi-headquartered news agency Indo-Asian News Service or IANS, said the company.

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