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Podcast: Reporters Without Orders
Episode: Reporters Without Orders Ep 167: Covid in eastern UP and Modi’s bad international press
Description: In this episode of Reporters Without Orders, host Akanksha Kumar is joined by Newslaundry's Shivangi Saxena and Tanishka Sodhi.Shivangi talks about her experiences with Akanksha in reporting on Covid from eastern Uttar Pradesh. At Gorakhpur’s Sadar Hospital, she says, they watched people coming in from villages 200 km away. Despair was all around them, as family members were unable to procure beds and oxygen cylinders, or even get a doctor to see the patients.“They were afraid that if they speak against the administration, they might refuse their families’ treatment,” she says. She hers...