Page 6 - Journalists

Shekhar Gupta: Journalism in the time of corona

Covid-19 is the biggest story of our lives and people expect us to be around, watching, reporting, editing, recording this for posterity and blowing the whistle to draw attention to injustices

49 journalists murdered worldwide in 2019, lowest toll in 16 years: Report

Some 80 journalists a year have lost their lives on average over the last two decades, the report added

Putin approves law that labels journalists, bloggers as foreign agents

Russia says it wants the law as a tit-for-tat mechanism if its journalists are defined as foreign agents in the West.

What does Facebook's plan to hire scribes mean for media industry?

Facebook's journalists will be curating stories from news sites and won't be editing headlines or writing content

Indian journalists, activists were spied on using Israeli spyware: WhatsApp

However, it did not say on whose behest the phones of journalists and activists across the world were targeted

Congress slams BJP over WhatsApp 'snooping' allegation, demands SC probe

The Congress Spokesperson said that 'Right to Privacy' of the citizens has been an anathema to the majoritarian BJP government

India is intriguing, complex, and alluring because of its size: NYT chief

NYT chief Stephen Dunbar-Johnson finds India market interesting, says good journalism is good business

In Ann Arbor, student newspaper 'The Michigan Daily' is the only paper

As more than 2,000 newspapers across the US have closed or merged, student journalists from Michigan to Arizona have stepped in to fill the void

Media not banned, entry being restricted: Finance Ministry clarifies

Security personnels manning the gates of the Finance Ministry are not allowing the entry of journalists, without appointment, even the Press Information Bureau-accredited ones

Global news organisations' coalition to highlight threatened journalists

Members of the One Free Press Coalition will publish on their platforms each month a "10 Most Urgent" list of journalists who have been jailed, threatened or attacked for their work

Indian among 30 journalists killed by organised crime, says watchdog

'The Mob has spread its tentacles around the globe faster than all the multinationals combined,' says Reporters Without Borders.

Saudi Arabia may blame journalist's death on botched interrogation

On the other hand, Turkey's President Tayyip Erdogan said some materials at the Saudi consulate have been painted over

Why certain foreign journalists are barred from entering India

A list of journalists, activists denied entry by the Indian government over the last 10 years

Veteran journalist Easwar Sagar passes away at 95

He died of pneumonia on Sunday in Centreville, Virginia

2016: 122 journalists killed globally, 5 in India

In 2015, India had reported targeted killings of six media professionals

Most deadly countries for journalists

Some of the highest rates of impunity in the murders of journalists can be attributed to killings by Islamist militant groups, CPJ found in its latest Global Impunity Index, which spotlights countries where journalists are murdered and their killers go free. The worst country for the second year in a row is Somalia, where the militant group al-Shabaab is suspected in the majority of media murders, followed by Iraq and Syria, where members of the militant group Islamic State murdered at least six journalists in the past year.CPJ's Impunity Index calculates the number of unsolved journalist murders as a percentage of each country's population. Only those nations with five or more unsolved cases are included. Here is a look at the most deadly countries for the journalists in the world:

27 Indian journalists investigating corruption murdered over 24 years

CPJ report shows how small-town journalists face greater risks, how India's culture of impunity leaves media vulnerable to attacks

Journos exposing corruption in India vulnerable, says watchdog

27 Journalist has been dead in India since 1992

'No ban imposed on journalists in reporting court proceedings'

It did not say anything about journalists' demand to open the High Court media room, which was locked after some lawyers of clashed with journalists

'Ousting Chinese journalists must hurt Indians'

India refused to extend visas of 3 Chinese journalists from the Chinese government-run Xinhua news agency