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Eyes wide open: @DalitCamera has over 72,000 YouTube subscribers who tune in to Raees Muhammed’s audio-visual ground reports on Dalit issues - IMAGE COURTESY: RAEES MUHAMMED
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With the public looking beyond mainstream media for reports from the ground, independent digital platforms are emerging as a source of credible news Independent voices on YouTube, Twitter, Facebook and Instagram are giving people a wide variety of trustworthy circuits to plug into While digital media has helped amplify local issues and movements, its emergence has also turned the lens on issues concerning vulnerable communities, remote regions and the environment, subjects that many sections of the media had long turned away from
Media watcher to track rising cases, FIRs against journalists in India
Journalists’ bodies have condemned the high-handedness of police, and urged authorities to restore circumstances which facilitate free functioning of the media.
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The Centre had also recently directed to Twitter to block around 250 tweets/Twitter accounts. (Representational Photo) By Express News Service
NEW DELHI: The Editors Guild of India launched a media watcher which will track cases of media professionals being targeted for fulfilling their journalistic responsibilities. This comes amid FIRs being lodged against journalists for their reporting on January 26 tractor rally of farmers, and cases of sedition being imposed on them.
India cracks down on journalism, again
Last Tuesday, as India celebrated a national holiday commemorating its democratic constitution, thousands of farmers marched and drove their tractors through New Delhi. It was the latest in a series of protests against agricultural reforms that many farmers fear will allow large corporations to crush them. Police tear-gassed the demonstrators and charged at the crowd with batons; as Vidya Krishnan wrote in
The Atlantic, “the dueling images a celebration of India’s democracy on the one hand, the crushing of dissent on the other were carried on a split screen by many news channels, inadvertently offering the perfect visual metaphor for modern India.” A twenty-five-year-old farmer named Navreet Singh was killed during the protest; officials claimed that he died in a tractor accident, but witnesses said that police shot Singh in the head an account supported by photographic evidence. Singh’s family has alleged a cover-up. “One doctor to
Editors Guild of India released Media Watch informing the world about Journalists being targeted by BJP government
February 4, 2021
Monitoring Desk: The Editors Guild of India has released a Media Watch informing the world about Journalists targeted in January 2021 by the BJP government, reports DND News Agency.
Modi government has taken strict actions against those journalists, media houses, and writers who showed impartiality in covering the Kisan Morcha protest a movement of Indian farmers demanding the abrogation of three agricultural bills targeting their property right on their lands. Through these new Agriculture bills, the Indian government is trying to strip farmers from their right of holding of lands and handover lands to big corporates for Corporate agriculture purposes.