Christopher Knaus Stan Grant walks away from presenting job at the national broadcaster, after coverage of the King’s coronation prompted torrent of vitriol It was a moment of reckoning. Stan Grant, one of Australia’s most prominent Indigenous journalists, stared down the barrel of a live camera, stony-faced and red-eyed, to explain why he was stepping… Read More Racism in Australian media
This May, The Caravan’s work has been recognised by two institutes. Stanford University’s Walter H. Shorenstein Asia-Pacific Research Center has awarded us the Shorenstein Journalism Award for 2023 for our steadfast coverage that champions accountability and media independence. “Despite intimidation and harassment from the government, The Caravan continues to document the erosion of democracy and… Read More The Caravan awarded Stanford University’s Shorenstein Journalism Award for 2023
Rather than confront the inherent role of the university as a class-sorting mechanism (as well as an engine of the military-industrial complex),.. educators settled on a pedagogical model that valued the individual and immediate experiences of students over general civic and literary instruction. In lieu of learning a shared curriculum, students earned course credits through… Read More The Language of Democracy
Some genuine investigative journalism, congratulations to this reporter Rahul Gandhi Case : Gujarat से जुड़े बड़ी प्लानिंग के तार, सच आएगा सामने | Justice Loya ************************* Apoorva Mandhani: Judge Loya’s Confidants Died Mysterious Deaths Death of Judge Loya: A critical examination of the ECG and post-mortem demonstrates the failings of the SC verdict A Family Breaks Its… Read More Rahul Gandhi Case: Gujarat से जुड़े बड़ी प्लानिंग के तार, सच आएगा सामने – Justice Loya
Mortaza Behboudi, an Afghan-French journalist, had been drawn back to Afghanistan, which he had left aged 21, to report on the deteriorating humanitarian conditions and situation for women. “He has a passion to give voice to people who had their voices taken from them, which is why he went back to Afghanistan,” says Aleksandra Mostovaja, Behboudi’s… Read More ‘We can’t remain silent’: journalists refuse to give up despite Taliban terror
The Pulwama tragedy, Malik says was used by the ‘politicians’ for electoral gains Swati Shikha NB: This interview with Satya Pal Malik is revelatory, and has received over 1.6 million views in 24 hours. Satya Pal Malik is one of the few BJP affiliated politicians who has not indulged in the vicious communal rhetoric of… Read More Corruption, Kashmir & Adani: J&K’s Last Governor Satya Pal Malik’s Interview With Karan Thapar
Irrespective of the present company he keeps, Jaishankar is a quintessential product of that real or imagined Khan Market fraternity. His newly accredited centrality in the Modi regime tells us as much about the external affairs minister as about the continued indispensability of the KMG to any ruler wanting to govern this difficult land Harish… Read More The ‘Khan Market Gang’ is Back With a Flourish in Modi’s Naya Bharat
The Rush Limbaugh Show, the ultra-rightwing talkshow platform, was syndicated as the scourge of the liberal elite – anti-immigrant, anti-tax, anti-feminist, anti-LGBT, anti climate change and later denying Covid vaccines – and always rejecting the evidence that smoking caused cancer. No need any longer for countervailing views. A lifelong smoker, Limbaugh died in 2021 of the very… Read More A culture of truth denial is wilting US democracy and Britain is following fast
Anna Cooban, CNN India’s government is planning to create a state fact-checking unit with the power to order social media platforms to take down content about its activities that it deems “fake or misleading.” In an amendment to rules covering digital and social media published Thursday, the Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology said that the fact-checking… Read More Indian journalists warn of new government assault on press freedom
Over 100,000 people have been disappeared in the course of the destructive drug war waged in Mexico over the past two decades. Among the deceased are more than 150 journalists murdered for their work to expose the dense network of corruption and violence that links government officials, police, and the military with organized crime. The… Read More Chris Hedges: Mexico’s Epidemic of Murdered Journalists is an Ominous Warning to the Press
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