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Friday, August 8, 2025
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Topic: journalism

No, the Western media isn’t biased in reporting Indian Covid. Here’s why

If Covid is the biggest human tragedy of our times, then journalists have to show it, tell it, write it. There is no nationalism involved in journalism.

New York Post reporter quits after being ‘forced’ to write false story on Kamala Harris

A front page story on New York Post Sunday falsely claimed that undocumented minors were being welcomed to the US with copies of a children's book authored by Vice President Harris.

New book offers an insider account into the workings of Indian media

Alok Mehta's 'Power, Press and Politics: Half a Century of Journalism', published by Bloomsbury India, will be released on ThePrint's ‘Soft Cover’ on 17 May.

Balance? ‘Allen v. Farrow’ is showing us what’s wrong with ‘he said, she said’ journalism

Allen v. Farrow has been made in a time that has freed us to take sides. It’s becoming more and more okay to accept that only one side of the story can be true.

Modi should follow Morrison, demand Facebook and Google share revenues with news publishers

Social media companies are taking away most digital advertising revenues by leeching on content created by news organisations. The model is broken.

China jails former lawyer for 4 years over posts about govt’s struggle with Covid

Zhang Zhan's posts included a video of hospital hallways lined with patients on oxygen and another suggesting that people had been charged for virus tests they expected to be free.

Avoid drama & sensation, good news is also news, I&B Minister tells budding journalists

Prakash Javadekar tells new IIMC students not to chase TRPs, highlights Modi govt’s achievements as an example of good news that should also be published.

How Covid has worsened attacks against journalists in Kenya

Kenya has a long history of using repressive laws to silence and punish journalists. The coronavirus made it worse.

Nation wants to know if there is more to Republic TV besides Arnab Goswami

Arnab Goswami broke the cardinal rule of journalism — you don’t make yourself the news.

Humble headline? No, it’s a weapon for media, Facebook, Google, your WhatsApp group

We have a problem. Most of us Indians don’t read articles beyond the headline and we are having a tough time distinguishing report and opinion.

On Camera

US has misread India. New Delhi will hedge, push back, and assert

India’s foreign policy today is driven less by Western alignment or global liberalism and more by domestic political imperatives — economic, ideological, and electoral.

Smartphones, gems, pharma: Which Indian exports will be worst hit by Trump tariffs, which will be spared

Electronics—specifically smartphones—& energy & pharma products make up 30% of Indian exports to US. 25% tariff on India came into effect Thursday, extra 25% to kick in by August-end.

Pakistan army chief Asim Munir to attend CENTCOM chief’s farewell, second visit to US in two months

Munir was earlier in America in June when he had a two-hour luncheon meeting with the US president at the White House.

Pakistan, Dhaka have played Washington well. Back home, Modi ecosystem has an inner conflict

To protect ourselves from Trumpian diplomacy, first we must introspect the bipolarity within our establishment discourse.