Topic: press freedom
DIGIPUB slams The Wire raid, says it cannot become tool to worsen fraught state of journalism
DIGIPUB News India Foundation, a body of digital-only news ventures and freelance journalists, has strongly condemned in no uncertain terms the searches against the editors and reporter of The Wire, which mainly serve the purpose of criminalising and creating a chilling effect against the profession of journalism in India.
“Heartbroken,” says Kashmiri photojournalist India stopped from travelling to receive Pulitzer
On 20 October, the 2022 class of Pulitzer Prize winners gathered at Columbia University's Low Library for a dinner ceremony celebrating their awards. 2021-2022 Pulitzer Prize...
India made most requests to remove tweets by journalists, media outlets: Report
India submitted the highest number of demands to remove tweets by verified handles of journalists and news outlets between July and December 2021, according to Twitter’s 20th Transparency Report.
Unending witch-hunt: New warrant against Zubair in UP’s Lakhimpur Kheri
The Lakhimpur Kheri police in Uttar Pradesh obtained a warrant against AltNews co-founder and prominent Muslim journalist Mohammed Zubair in a case registered last year on charges of promoting enmity between two groups.
“Our daughter keeps asking where her baba is”: Aasif Sultan’s wife on her husband’s incarceration
“Areeba keeps asking us where her ‘Baba’ is. What all to explain to a 4-year-old?” says Sabina Akhter, wife of Kashmiri journalist Aasif Sultan who has been in jail for over 1,400 days now.
My family and I have been harassed by police for reporting on media crackdown: Kashmiri journalist
A statement by The Caravan’s multimedia reporter, Shahid Tantray, on facing harassment and intimidation from Jammu and Kashmir Police. The statement was shared by The Caravan through its official Twitter handle.
