by SAMSN Admin | Mar 8, 2017 | India, SAMSN Blog
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...
by SAMSN Admin | Mar 1, 2017 | Arrest / Detainment, India, Media Rights Violations, Release
The International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) joins the Indian Journalists Union (IJU) in welcoming the Supreme Court’s decision to grant bail to journalist Santosh Yadav after 17 months in prison on seemingly fabricated charges. The IFJ urges the government to...
by SAMSN Admin | Feb 20, 2017 | India, Labour rights, Release
The International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) and the National Union of Journalists (India) express serious concern over the trend of the closure of several print editions by major newspapers and retrenching journalists and media staff in an arbitrary manner in...
by SAMSN Admin | Feb 11, 2017 | India, SAMSN Blog, Trade Union Rights
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...
by SAMSN Admin | Feb 8, 2017 | Attack, India, Media Rights Violations, Release
The International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) joins its affiliate the Indian Journalists Union (IJU) in condemning the assault on a journalist for critical reporting of a politician in Chirala of Andhra Pradesh, India on February 5. The IFJ demands immediate...
by SAMSN Admin | Feb 2, 2017 | Afghanistan, Bangladesh, India, Killing, Media Rights Violations, Pakistan, Release
The International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) today launched the IFJ list of journalists and media staff killed in 2016, documenting the deaths of colleagues killed in the line of duty. In the Asia-Pacific region, 28 journalists were brutally murdered in 2016, an...
