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.
ThePrint’s Manipur coverage defines the website’s journalism: report, report from the ground, report in depth. It does 'stories the public not only wants to read but ought to read’.
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?
'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.
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.
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.
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?
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.
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.
India should aim to get European investments that are clearly no longer going to China. That is where the dots of its efforts to save Asia from China’s dominance converge at its most basic.
About 300 employees had called in sick Wednesday, allegedly in protest against mismanagement of airlines. Remaining staff given ultimatum to rejoin work by end of Thursday.
A theme has not yet emerged for BJP & people see lack of a contest, which makes it unexciting. For all these reasons, 2024 is turning out to be an unexpectedly theme-less election.
Kudos to the print team.on an outstanding job. You are right to focus on news not just that we want to read but we ought to. Focus on the first is what leads to some newspapers becoming just a long form version of Page 3 and celebrity gossip. The Manipur coverage definitely highlighted this aspect more than others. I, myself, found myself following the Manipur coverage not because I was inclined to or in the mood for, but because if felt I needed to.
Kudos to the print team.on an outstanding job. You are right to focus on news not just that we want to read but we ought to. Focus on the first is what leads to some newspapers becoming just a long form version of Page 3 and celebrity gossip. The Manipur coverage definitely highlighted this aspect more than others. I, myself, found myself following the Manipur coverage not because I was inclined to or in the mood for, but because if felt I needed to.