-Newslaundry.com According to Moneycontrol, digital news reported the most growth in terms of operating revenue. Network18 Media & Investments Ltd reported a consolidated net profit of Rs 61.6 crore for the quarter ending March – a rise of 58.1 percent from last year, Moneycontrol reported on Tuesday. According to the report, the media company also saw a “14.6 percent on-year rise in consolidated revenue from operations to Rs 1,621.1 crore”. The surge was...
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‘We are Indians’: Jahangirpuri’s Muslims are furious at media’s ‘illegal Bangladeshi’ theory -Akanksha Kumar
-Newslaundry.com Channels like Aaj Tak and ABP suggested the role of ‘Bangladeshi or Rohingya Muslims’ in the communal violence on April 16. “Modi, may you live long,” said Afsana, beating her chest and gritting her teeth. “You have now turned us into Bangladeshis.” Afsana, a vegetable vendor, is angry and disappointed. Decades ago, her parents migrated to Delhi from Kolkata, settling in Sunder Nagri in Northeast Delhi, hoping to make a living. They...
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-Newslaundry.com Lokanath Dalei was allegedly assaulted by police for reporting on alleged corruption within the Nilagiri police. The Odisha Human Rights Commission has taken suo motu cognisance of a case where an Odisha journalist was chained in handcuffs to a bed in a hospital in Balasore, after allegedly being assaulted by the police, the Indian Express reported. On Friday, the commission also directed the inspector general of Balasore to submit a report on...
More »Instead of relying on jugaad, journalists need access to court pleadings. Here’s why -Chitrakshi Jain & Prashant Reddy T
-Newslaundry.com Not only is the procedure to access records unnecessarily complicated, but the courts have the discretion to judge a citizen’s motivation to access them. Over the course of the next few weeks, the United States Congress is expected to pass the Open Courts Act, which will make PACER – the digital database for accessing court records filed with the federal judiciary – accessible to everybody, free of cost! The law sets...
More »43% media outlets disappeared, 84% women journalists out of jobs since Taliban takeover: RSF report
-Newslaundry.com Report also mentions the ‘11 journalism rules’ giving rise to censorship and impacting press freedom. Sixty percent of media employees have not been able to work and 84 percent of women journalists have lost their jobs since the Taliban takeover in Afghanistan in August, according to a report released by Reporters Without Borders and Afghan Independent Journalists Association. The report also stated that 43 percent of Afghan media outlets have disappeared. Compared...
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