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Move high court to quash FIRs, SC tells journalists

-PTI/ The Telegraph Apex court offers protection to 3 reporters of The Wire, explains that it cannot create separate avenues for Scribes The Supreme Court Wednesday said it does not want freedom of press to be muzzled or stifled but it cannot create a separate avenue for journalists to approach it directly for quashing of FIRs lodged against them. The apex court stated this while hearing a plea filed by Foundation for Independent...

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Journalists Patricia Mukhim, Anuradha Bhasin Move SC Against Sedition Law

-TheWire.in The two have said that Section 124-A of the Indian Penal Code will continue to "haunt and hinder" the right to free speech and the freedom of the press. New Delhi: Journalists Patricia Mukhim and Anuradha Bhasin have become the latest to move Supreme Court challenging the constitutional validity of sedition law contending that the colonial-era penal provision was being used to intimidate, silence and punish Scribes. Mukhim is editor of The...

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India slips on World Press Freedom Index, 'Scribes attacked for writing on subjects that annoy Hindutva'

-The Indian Express World Press Freedom Index 2019 reveals an increased sense of hostility towards journalists across the world, with violent attacks in India leading to at least six Indian journalists being killed in the line of their work last year. In the backdrop of the ongoing Lok Sabha elections, India dropped two places to be ranked 140th out of 180 countries in the global press freedom index analysis released Thursday...

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Online trolling takes its toll on the country's press freedom ranking

  There is some bad news for the world’s largest democracy. Thanks to the vitiated atmosphere induced by troll attacks on Scribes on social media, among other things, the country's World Press Freedom Index (WPFI) ranking has fallen two places to 138th position.   Among 180 countries, India ranked 136th last year with a score of 42.94. However, in 2018 it attained 138th position with a score of 43.24 according to the...

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A unique opportunity for Scribes: Apply for NFI Media Awards Programme 2018

The National Foundation for India invites application for its National Media Awards Programme, 2018. The award is for young, mid-career journalists  and will allow them to publish and research articles/ photo-essays on issues of national concern, which though important, do not receive adequate media attention.  The award supports the pursuit of in-depth, creative field research on these concerns and writing about them with adequate evidence. Under the programme, ten to twelve...

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