From the category archives:

Journalism

Milli Gazette: Ten Years Of A Community Newspaper

by Kashif

Milli Gazette has made a name for itself. It is probably the most referenced Indian Muslim publication. It is a must read for any one interested in Indian Muslim affairs.Publishing a community magazine for ten years and that too without much community support and advertising is no mean achievement.

HT Paid For Shoddy Journalism

by Kashif

Kashif argues that Hindustan Times got paid for a shoddy piece of journalism. Source of inspiration for this post and its title comes from a very creative piece of journalism as exemplified by an HT story titled ‘Yahoo! paid for Peerbhoy’s training to hack networks’.

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Nellie Still Haunts

by Kashif

Journalist Hemendara Narayan witnessed the Nellie massacre of February 18th, 1983 and the death of hundreds if not thousands killed in a matter of hours. The memory of dead and those who survived haunted him for years and after 25 years he prepared this booklet to preserve the memory for future.

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Flagging TimesNow

by Kashif

When there is no news what a 24/7 news channel got to do? Of course, they are going to make up the news. The role of Times Now TV channel in promoting a story without checking the facts is just irresponsible journalism.

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26/11 And Urdu Press

by Mubasshir Mushtaq

26/11 has evolved Urdu journalism: this was the first time that leading newspapers devoted many special pages to a tragedy. News was not just covered from the ‘Muslim point of view’ as is widely believed, but from the human angle as well.

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Shaheen Bagh Kidnapping Case: Observations And Questions

by Kashif

A team of UP Police brazenly attempts to kidnap a youth from Shaheen Bagh and media tries to portray a narrative completely different from reality.

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Media “Hai Hai”

by Zarine Khan

Media seems to be losing further credibility after their one-sided coverage of the Jamia Nagar encounter and refusing to question the police version of the story.

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