Readers' Editor

The Readers’ Editor is an initiative by The Print to be accessible and responsive to its readers. Each month, Shailaja Bajpai, as Readers’ Editor, highlights readers’ views on ThePrint’s content and writes about issues that confront journalism in a dense and highly contested media environment.

Criticism, kindness, complaints—ThePrint readers don’t hold back. And we don’t want them to

Shailaja Bajpai - 31 March, 2024

How ThePrint reporters make governance, policy stories interesting for its readers

How ThePrint’s reporters and photographers covered Ram temple and Ayodhya—beyond politics

Manipur clashes coverage was ThePrint’s most important journalism in 2023

‘Please help me’ — readers write to ThePrint. Their way of expressing confidence in us

Shailaja Bajpai - 30 November, 2023

Requests for ThePrint’s intervention sound like cries of despair from frustrated people who see media as their last resort. As a society, have we become hard of hearing?

Ahilyabai Holkar, Nehru, USSR — ThePrint’s PastForward tells us how we got here

Shailaja Bajpai - 31 October, 2023

'We're headbutting over history more and more now–not just in academia but in politics, social media, YouTube, and WhatsApp. It’s like history is on steroids,' says Rama Lakshmi, Editor, PastForward.

ThePrint’s Delhi team is its heart but state reporters are its arteries—Chennai to Chandigarh

Shailaja Bajpai - 30 September, 2023

If a media outlet wishes to be truly national, as ThePrint does, it should have its own network of correspondents in the states who know the smell and the lay of the land.

Octopus’ mind to Chandrayaan-3 — ThePrint has been making science ‘chic’ for 5 years

Shailaja Bajpai - 31 August, 2023

ThePrint reporters have found vegan leather produced from mangoes, profs publishing in fake science journals, and stargazing tourism in the Andamans.

1984 riots CTC to Manipur crisis reports—ThePrint got more compliments than condemnation

Shailaja Bajpai - 31 July, 2023

The most significant change I have noticed in the mails to the Readers’ Editor during the last few months is — there’s much less Hindu-Muslim commentary.

No internet, high propaganda—ThePrint got you Manipur stories through dictation & SMS

Shailaja Bajpai - 30 June, 2023

The difficulty faced by editors and reporters was simple in its complexity — ignorance. How do you convey the intricacies of Manipur's historical Kuki-Meitei enmity that suddenly turned violent?

Meet ThePrint journalists who don’t use words. Their art speaks—charts, graphs, illustrations

Shailaja Bajpai - 30 May, 2023

These graphics artists at ThePrint illustrate stories; but their work also conveys mood and shades of meaning, a text or a photograph can’t always quite grasp.

ThePrint Ground Reports go beyond breaking news, tell stories that are being buried

Shailaja Bajpai - 30 April, 2023

From Punjab’s unemployable youth and Kalakshetra students’ fight against sexual harassment to Gujarat’s child nuns from Jain community, Ground Reports give you a 360-degree perspective.

Critical analysis by ThePrint readers always welcome, but we won’t send a spy to Pakistan

Shailaja Bajpai - 31 March, 2023

Scold us to your heart’s content, berate us, eat us for breakfast — but do stay in touch.

Lights, camera, storytelling—how ThePrint photojournalists tell news and win awards

Shailaja Bajpai - 28 February, 2023

There are three reasons why photojournalism still matters in the age of selfie shooters and smartphones.

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Readers' Editor

Criticism, kindness, complaints—ThePrint readers don’t hold back. And we don’t want them to

How ThePrint reporters make governance, policy stories interesting for its readers

How ThePrint’s reporters and photographers covered Ram temple and Ayodhya—beyond politics

Manipur clashes coverage was ThePrint’s most important journalism in 2023

On Camera

YourTurn

Guidelines for YourTurn submissions

Opinion

Stop asking fans to explain why they like Taylor Swift. Belittling Swifties reeks of sexism

The young & brash are influencing the old voters in Rajasthan–with Ram & Modi

Israel-Iran conflict is bad news for Russia. Moscow is dependent on Tehran for drones

Economy

CBDT signs record 125 Advance Pricing Agreements, 31% more than last year

Defence

Vice Admiral Dinesh Kumar Tripathi to take over as Chief of the Naval Staff

National Interest

44 years on, two things that have changed in Modi’s BJP, and one that hasn’t

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