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The Hindu journalists win Laadli awards for gender-sensitive reportage

The Hindu journalists win Laadli awards for gender-sensitive reportage

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Shrabana Chatterjee and Moyurie Som at the Laadli award ceremony in Mumbai on November 19, 2025. | Photo Credit: Special Arrangement Journalists from The Hindu bagged honours at the Laadli Media and Advertising Awards for Gender Sensitivity 2025 on Wednesday (November 19, 2025). Population First, a non-governmental organisation, presented the 15th edition of the Laadli awards, honouring 63 print, web, and TV journalists. The Hindu won accolades for two reports. Shiv Sahay Singh, Shrabana Chatterjee, and Moyurie Som from the Kolkata bureau won an award in the English language print series category for the report “Doctor rape and murder: Violence and vigil in Kolkata”. Their reportage connected the horrific crime at the R.G. Kar Medical College and Hospital to a deeper structural rot in healthcare and governance, and for shifting the focus from sensationalism to accountability. Ashna Bhutani with her award in Mumbai on November 19, 2025. | Photo Credit: Special Arrangement A Delhi report of Ashna Bhutani and another journalist, “Homes for transgender people: A safe space, threatened”, bagged an award under the print category. The feature …

NYT Slammed By US Government Over Its Reportage Of Kashmir Terror Attack

NYT Slammed By US Government Over Its Reportage Of Kashmir Terror Attack

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New Delhi: The New York Times has been pulled up by the US government for its reportage of the terror attack in Jammu and Kashmir’s Pahalgam, in which 26 people, including a foreign national were shot dead after being asked to prove their allegiance to Islam. The attack, for which a Pakistan-based terror group The Resistance Front – an offshoot of the banned Lashkar-e-Taiba – claimed responsibility, was reported by The New York Times as a “militant” attack. An introduction to the report also said that it was Prime Minister Narendra Modi, who called the “shooting” a “terror attack”. NYT CALLED OUT OVER TERROR REPORTAGE The Foreign Affairs Committee of the United States government took to social media to publicly call out The New York Times article over its news report, describing it as being “removed from reality”. The NYT headline read ‘At Least 24 Tourists Gunned Down by Militants in Kashmir’. “This was a terrorist attack, plain and simple,” noted the US government, adding that “Whether it’s India or Israel, when it comes to …

TV Channels Warned On Reportage

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The ministry has “strongly advised” television channels to attune their systems. New Delhi: The government on Monday termed the television news coverage of cricketer Rishabh Pant’s road accident and some other crime stories “distasteful” and “heart-wrenching”, and asked channels to strictly follow the programme code laid down under the relevant law. In an advisory to all private satellite channels, the Ministry of Information and Broadcasting cited the coverage of the cricketer’s car crash, airing of distressing images of dead bodies, and the thrashing of a five-year-old boy, and said such reporting offended “good taste and decency”. “…television channels have shown dead bodies of individuals and images/videos of injured persons with blood splattered around, people including women, children, and elderly being beaten mercilessly in close shots, continuous cries and shrieks of a child being beaten by a teacher, shown repeatedly over several minutes including circling the actions thereby making it even more ghastly, without taking the precaution of blurring the images or showing them from long shots,” read the advisory issued on Monday. It also said …