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.

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ThePrint’s election coverage isn’t about who’s winning. It’s about the mood on the ground

Shailaja Bajpai - 30 April, 2024

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

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.

Podcasts, video analysis, on-ground clips—ThePrint is ready for the age of ‘viewer-reader’

Shailaja Bajpai - 31 January, 2023

'Gen-Z would rather watch or listen, that’s the reality,' observes ThePrint. Recognition of this shift to audio-visuals is why the team is ramping up its video section.

Here’s what readers of ThePrint said to us in 2022—and what we are offering in 2023

+TFP Shailaja Bajpai - 31 December, 2022

I receive frequent emails accusing ThePrint of 'anti-Hindu bias' or urging us to write more about 'the Nazi politics of Hindutva'. Sometimes, readers generously concede and correct themselves.

How ThePrint courageously covered the Covid battleground and won the IPI award

Shailaja Bajpai - 30 November, 2022

Everyone who went to the field admitted that though the experience was harrowing, they had become better journalists, perhaps even better people because of it.

Meet ThePrint’s Desk—people with one of the most unenviable jobs in journalism

Shailaja Bajpai - 29 October, 2022

In this age of fast and loose communication, the timeless principles of journalism need to be reinforced. And, it’s the Desk’s job to press ‘pause’ and reflect.

Terrorists, burqa, automated copies, pop-up ads—there’s a lot that bugs ThePrint’s readers

Shailaja Bajpai - 30 September, 2022

Our readers are not hostile or angry. If anything, we welcome their criticism because it keeps us on our toes.

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Readers' Editor

ThePrint’s election coverage isn’t about who’s winning. It’s about the mood on the ground

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

On Camera

YourTurn

Guidelines for YourTurn submissions

Opinion

If the Congress were truly a democratic party, Sam Pitroda would be a nobody

Congress, BJP manifestos strangely silent on transforming military to make India a great power

Want to understand Punjab’s history? Look to farmers and peasants, not Gurus

Economy

Day after mass sick leave by employees, Air India Express fires crew members, cancels 85 more flights

Defence

Three Indian Navy ships deployed to South China Sea

National Interest

Frontrunner is letting the challenger define this poll campaign. Modi still hasn’t found a big theme

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