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Tuesday, December 2, 2025
TopicJournalism

Topic: journalism

I had pretty good access to everybody from the PM to cabinet ministers: Surendra Nihal Singh

Journalist and former editor of The Statesman, Surendra Nihal Singh, passed away Monday. In 2013, in an interview with Sue Onslow of Institute of Commonwealth Studies Commonwealth Oral History Project, Singh spoke about a number of topics from Indira Gandhi to the Queen, journalism to Pakistan.

Media experts say press regulation doesn’t work in India, Press Council is a joke

BBC’s Nik Gowing talks about global trend of media crackdown; ThePrint’s Shekhar Gupta says media regulation talk comes up only when ruling party is in trouble.

Bathtub, wine, drowning Sridevi: A successful woman’s death unleashes the worst in TV news

In the first 24 hours, everybody was a doctor analysing her diet and fitness. Then came the opportunity to be Sherlock, as news emerged of Sridevi's accidental drowning.

Don’t deny journalists the right to report with dignity, least of all for liberalism

Jignesh Mevani is new to this. With stature, he will grow a thicker skin and learn that denial of access to a journalist at an open event can’t be justified

Talk Point: Is it okay for public figures & activists to bar journalists they don’t like?

Jignesh Mevani while addressing a press briefing in Chennai singled out a reporter from Republic TV, asking him to leave the briefing. Experts weigh in on the implications of Mevani's demand.

Global Pulse: Free speech as salvation; globalisation and plight of left-behind places

Free speech is not necessary for democracy, but "it’s our salvation from intellectual mediocrity and social ossification."

Kitney Pakistani thhey?

More the better, and better dead than alive. When journalism is reduced to touching simplicities, it begins to self-destruct.

Our essential qualifications have changed…

The era of typewriters is over, with breaking news taking a microsecond to spread. We now live in a more equal, fairer newsroom.

The foreign hand-writing

There is nothing like this. Government should worry, not whine.

No noose is good noose

The debate on the role of the media and the need for regulation is specious, dangerous, self-defeating and anachronistic in a mature democracy in 2011.

On Camera

RSS is warming up to Yogi Adityanath. CM has many more boxes to tick

It’s not just the Opposition parties Yogi Adityanath has to contend with. His detractors within the BJP are no less formidable.

Modi govt’s PM internship scheme saw high attrition in Year 1. Just 30% joined, 41% quit midway

According to government reply in Lok Sabha, the pilot phase of PMIS is being used to test concepts, strategies and systems before a full-scale implementation of the scheme.

After Op Sindoor, India goes in for more Heron Mk IIs; Israel frontrunner for mega MALE drones deal

Order for 87 MALE drones will be split between 2 Indian firms in 64:36 ratio to ensure there are 2 independent manufacturing lines with at least 60% indigenous components.

Gaali cricket: Bavuma stands tall, India’s Test ego cut to size

The India-South Africa series-defining fact is the catastrophic decline of Indian red ball cricket where a visiting team can mock us with the 'grovel' word.