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Neha Dixit: “Sexually Explicit Abuses Land in my Inbox”
In this extract from her hard-hitting speech* delivered while accepting the Chameli Devi Award for Outstanding Woman Journalist for 2016, Neha Dixit describes how she has been harassed by trolls over the years. After being called ‘antinational’ for months on end, it...
Sri Lanka’s RTI Law: Will the Government ‘Walk the Talk’?
Sri Lanka’s new Right to Information (RTI) Law, adopted through a rare Parliamentary consensus in June 2016, became fully operational on 3 February 2017. From that day on, the island nation’s 21 million citizens could exercise their legal right to public information...
Mass Layoffs at ABP
Manisha Pande examines the alarming trend of newsgathering being replaced with news aggregation by the desk, and the accompanying job losses especially among reporters. Gautam Sarkar (47) did not know his job was on the chopping block when his editor called him at...
Getting Away With Murder
Despite assurances of speedy justice, investigation into the brutal murder of journalist couple Sagar Sarowar and Meherun Runi continues to languish, says Saleem Samad Justice is long overdue in the sensational murder of Sagar Sarowar, news editor of private network...
Prioritising safety
Despite the race for stories, media houses in Pakistan are now putting safety of their staff at a higher footing than ratings, says Lubna Jerar Naqvi. Terrorism and murder are the main causes for media deaths in Pakistan and five media personnel were killed in 2016....
Remembering Lasantha
Eight years after the murder of The Sunday Leader editor Lasantha Wickrematunge, his colleague Dilrukshi Handunnetti remembers all that he stood for: truth, courage, and justice. Way back in 2007, when I was assigned one of the biggest investigative stories I was ever...
Journalism: A tragic adventure?
In Bangladesh, speaking the truth to power attracts jail sentences, not Pulitzer prizes, says Sam Jahan. Most people I meet in Bangladesh try their best to absorb the fact of my working as a full-time journalist in the country. "But why?" they ask. I have asked this...
Challenging Impunity in India
In 2016, six journalists lost their lives in India and the hitherto unremitting spiral of impunity that shrouds each death is a chilling indicator of the overall state of press freedom in India, touted as the world’s largest democracy. On February 13, 2016, Karun...
First-aid training saves lives
Several international media organizations give their employees basic first-aid training which helps save lives in the field. Pakistani media organizations focus on how to protect oneself in dangerous situations like firing, riots and terror attacks, which is great but...
Who fixes, who reports?
Priyanka Borpujari analyses the power imbalance inherent in terms like ‘fixer’ and ‘foreign correspondent’. On December 7, 2016, Angel İstek Alcu, the first woman to receive the Martin Adler Prize will be honoured at the Rory Peck Awards ceremony. Her citation says...
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