Legacy Media Learn a Thing or Two From Social Media Journalism? Caste bias
Dalit Desk, or a medium to tell stories from a Dalit’s desk, an online news organisation was started by Sahil Valmiki in 2019 on Instagram and Youtube. “The stories that I am able to tell on my social media platform, cannot be told on a traditional media platform. Traditional media is upper-caste dominated,” said Valimiki. The selection to ‘upper-caste media’ is caste based. When your CV reaches there, it gets rejected just by looking at your surname. Even if you get there, you get harassed. They won’t let you tell these stories, he said.
Covid-19: Hope as UN agencies collaborate to tackle India’s oxygen crisis
Janet Ogundepo with agency report
Published 8 May 2021
Published 8 May 2021
Since the end of 2019 when Covid-19 pandemic broke out in Wuhan, Hubei Province of China, the world has yet to recover from it. Critical sectors across the world gasped for breath and several countries imposed lockdowns to curtail the spread. Deaths and recoveries were recorded across continents. Families mourned their loved ones and health workers recorded casualties. But gradually relief came. But at a time the world was about to heave a sigh of relief when the first wave succumbed to drastic medical actions including hand-washing, social distancing, use of facemask, and hand sanitiser, the second wave sneaked in. Anxiety resurfaced based on first wave experiences in many countries.