Deprecated (16384): The ArrayAccess methods will be removed in 4.0.0.Use getParam(), getData() and getQuery() instead. - /home/brlfuser/public_html/src/Controller/ArtileDetailController.php, line: 150
 You can disable deprecation warnings by setting `Error.errorLevel` to `E_ALL & ~E_USER_DEPRECATED` in your config/app.php. [CORE/src/Core/functions.php, line 311]
Deprecated (16384): The ArrayAccess methods will be removed in 4.0.0.Use getParam(), getData() and getQuery() instead. - /home/brlfuser/public_html/src/Controller/ArtileDetailController.php, line: 151
 You can disable deprecation warnings by setting `Error.errorLevel` to `E_ALL & ~E_USER_DEPRECATED` in your config/app.php. [CORE/src/Core/functions.php, line 311]
Warning (512): Unable to emit headers. Headers sent in file=/home/brlfuser/public_html/vendor/cakephp/cakephp/src/Error/Debugger.php line=853 [CORE/src/Http/ResponseEmitter.php, line 48]
Warning (2): Cannot modify header information - headers already sent by (output started at /home/brlfuser/public_html/vendor/cakephp/cakephp/src/Error/Debugger.php:853) [CORE/src/Http/ResponseEmitter.php, line 148]
Warning (2): Cannot modify header information - headers already sent by (output started at /home/brlfuser/public_html/vendor/cakephp/cakephp/src/Error/Debugger.php:853) [CORE/src/Http/ResponseEmitter.php, line 181]
LATEST NEWS UPDATES | ‘Star reporter with no income’: What Pawan Jaiswal’s death tells us about the state of rural reporters -Tanishka Sodhi

‘Star reporter with no income’: What Pawan Jaiswal’s death tells us about the state of rural reporters -Tanishka Sodhi

Share this article Share this article
published Published on May 18, 2022   modified Modified on May 19, 2022

-Newslaundry.com

Journalism doesn’t pay their bills, they have little or no institutional support and rely on commissions from ‘finding ads’ for papers.

In his final news report, Pawan Jaiswal visited Rampur Dhabahi village in Uttar Pradesh’s Mirzapur in August 2021, where he asked a young woman about her dreams.

The woman, Pinki, had been the subject of an Academy Award winning documentary 13 years ago, on how corrective surgery for her cleft lip had changed her life.

“Do you want to leave this place, or stay here all your life?” Pawan asked her.

“I won't stay here,” Pinki said. “Because if I do, I won’t be able to study. There are hills everywhere. I’ll go somewhere where there’s a good school, and stay in a hostel and study.”

In the 10-minute report for Jhumri Talaiya, a local YouTube channel, Pawan speaks for at least six minutes, with a pace and clarity typical of a journalist comfortable in front of the camera. His focus remained on Pinki – viewers would never guess what Pawan himself was experiencing at the time.

It was when Pawan was returning to Mirzapur city that he told Vijay Vineet, the founder of the channel who had accompanied him for the assignment, what he was going through.

“He said he had his tooth extracted by a doctor who did it the wrong way, and that his tooth wasn’t getting better,” Vijay recalled. “He said he had been suffering for two months. I referred him to a doctor.”

Vijay accompanied Pawan to Varanasi to meet the doctor, who told them the issue seemed more serious than a tooth extraction.

“He told us that this isn't about the tooth anymore, and was seeming to be cancer,” Vijay said. “We couldn't believe that a strong person like Pawan would suddenly fall to cancer.”

Several appointments and tests later, it was confirmed – Pawan had stage three mouth cancer.

Please click here to read more. 


Newslaundry.com, 18 May, 2022, https://www.newslaundry.com/2022/05/18/star-reporter-with-no-income-what-pawan-jaiswals-death-tells-us-about-the-state-of-rural-reporters?fbclid=IwAR10bRZbqCvVnflRe7WifahX9dvjwFcArC6MCPYMk_-YCjo5F0VF4EP_kmo


Related Articles

 

Write Comments

Your email address will not be published. Required fields are marked *

*

Video Archives

Archives

share on Facebook
Twitter
RSS
Feedback
Read Later

Contact Form

Please enter security code
      Close