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.

Eight journalists, four states and 1 UT—how ThePrint covered 2026 Assembly elections

Shailaja Bajpai - April 30, 2026

ThePrint’s Praveen Jain wins Ramnath Goenka Excellence in Journalism Award

ThePrint coverage of AI Summit went beyond goof-ups and shirtless protest

How ThePrint’s foreign affairs team makes sense of the world for Indian readers

Readers have the last word at ThePrint. Keep sending us your mails

Shailaja Bajpai - December 31, 2025

ThePrint prides itself on its exacting editorial standards. Each article goes through a thorough, detailed vetting and different levels of gatekeeping.

Chaos, multiple angles, and a terror module—ThePrint took a deep dive into Red Fort blast case

Shailaja Bajpai - November 28, 2025

With the major aspects of the immediate incident covered, the six reporters on the ground set about sending back stories as the smoke from the debris lifted and a clearer picture of the site emerged.

Meet ThePrint’s new reporters — a lawyer, an ex-KPMG manager & an edtech founder

Shailaja Bajpai - October 31, 2025

Udit Hinduja, Udit Bubna, and Ruchi Bhattar show how ThePrint School of Journalism gives people from diverse backgrounds a path into the newsroom.

ThePrint is widening its lens. New shows on AI, economy, bureaucracy—and fresh newsletters

Shailaja Bajpai - September 30, 2025

The latest additions to ThePrint’s properties will improve your understanding of the India we live in, whether it's through the prism of AI or civil services.

ThePrint at 8. Readers are evangelists, critics, and asserting their ‘right’

Shailaja Bajpai - August 30, 2025

We welcome criticism and accept it in the spirit it is made: to help us improve ThePrint.

‘More careful than colourful’—ThePrint’s reporting on the Air India crash put facts first

Shailaja Bajpai - July 30, 2025

The common thread in ThePrint's reporting—from the ground and Delhi—is the effort to stick to verified facts and clearly attributed views. Anything else could be misleading.

Expert voices in public spaces—what ThePrint Speakers Bureau offers

Shailaja Bajpai - June 30, 2025

ThePrint Speakers Bureau offers an opportunity to engage with experts from diverse fields, like RSS intellectual Seshadri Chari, TMC MP Sagarika Ghose, and historian Anirudh Kanisetti.

Pahalgam, Pakistan generals, pitches—what readers wrote to us in May

Shailaja Bajpai - May 31, 2025

Quite often, I receive backhanded compliments that are actually complaints.

How ThePrint’s small newsroom brought you Pahalgam from every angle, minus the noise

Shailaja Bajpai - April 28, 2025

We had to deploy our resources intelligently to tell readers what had happened in the attack, what happened thereafter, and what may happen in the near future.

You can now own a piece of ThePrint. Great speeches tote bags to Cut the Clutter hoodies

Shailaja Bajpai - March 4, 2025

Five tote bags with quotes from BR Ambedkar, Sardar Patel, Jawaharlal Nehru, Indira Gandhi and Atal Bihari Vajpayee are on offer. 'People can choose what resonates with them'.

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Readers' Editor

Eight journalists, four states and 1 UT—how ThePrint covered 2026 Assembly elections

ThePrint’s Praveen Jain wins Ramnath Goenka Excellence in Journalism Award

ThePrint coverage of AI Summit went beyond goof-ups and shirtless protest

How ThePrint’s foreign affairs team makes sense of the world for Indian readers

On Camera

YourTurn

Guidelines for YourTurn submissions

Opinion

India’s real estate will meet the reality of agentic AI

Keeping CAPF in Bengal for 60 days raises constitutional questions. It’s not an occupying force

History of Indians in the Arab world—port builders, Jat governor, translators, and slaves

Economy

Adani’s giant copper plant hits technical setbacks in first year

Defence

Indian drone tech company ideaForge signs MoU with Japanese firm to develop next-gen AI powered drones

National Interest

Trump, Netanyahu’s Iran gamble: The regime change rebound

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