This month’s killing of renowned journalist Gauri Lankesh, shot dead outside her home in Bangalore, has again put a spotlight on safety of journalists and the state of press freedom in India. Lankesh, founding editor of the Kannada-language weekly tabloid Gauri Lankesh Patrike, was found dead on her porch with multiple bullet wounds to her […]

Physical attacks against journalists as well as arrests under often-archaic laws interpreted beyond their legitimate scope to clamp down on critical journalists are only some of the tactics adopted by the government of President Modi to silence independent journalists in India. Furthermore, with mainstream media, in particular TV stations, increasingly forced to unquestioningly parrot the […]

On October 27, India’s Supreme Court ordered an independent inquiry into whether the government used the Pegasus spyware to illegally surveil journalists, political opponents and activists. The committee, consisting of three cybersecurity experts and led by former apex court judge RV Raveendran, will deliver their report in two months. The order came as a response […]

  Even after the pandemic brought a boom in readers seeking reliable information on the health crisis, how can news outlets keep audiences engaged? According to editors from India, the U.S., Austria, and the Philippines speaking at the IPI World Congress panel on audience engagement on September 17, top editors agreed keeping an audience is, […]