Uncovering Asia 2016 (https://2016.uncoveringasia.org/tag/india/)
Indian journalist Rana Ayyub has herself become major news since the release of Gujarat Files, which she self-published in May. The book chronicles Ayyub’s eight-month sting operation and implicates India’s current prime minister. Continue Reading →
Investigative reporters are constantly finding creative ways to find data, including adapting sensor technology to collect real-time information on air pollution. Continue Reading →
For eight years India has been a fixture on the Committee to Protect Journalists’ annual Impunity Index, which spotlights countries where journalists are slain and their killers go free. Perpetrators are seldom arrested and CPJ has not recorded a single conviction upheld in any of the cases of journalists murdered in India in direct relation to their work. Continue Reading →
Threats to the media, NGOs, and civil society actors have escalated in countries across Asia and the Pacific. Among the more worrisome developments are anti-press freedom moves in India, Pakistan, Hong Kong, and the Philippines. Here’s a round-up from IFEX, the global freedom-of-expression network. Continue Reading →