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Podcast: Reporters Without Orders
Episode: Reporters Without Orders Ep 174: Adivasi youth’s killing and UP police’s ‘conversion racket’
Description: This week, Basant Kumar is joined by Newslaundry reporter Akanksha Kumar and freelance journalist Anand Dutt.Anand discusses his report on the alleged killing by the security forces of an Adivasi youth in Jharkhand and details the plight of the state’s Adivasi communities. On the media coverage of the killing, he explains why such atrocities rarely get wide coverage.Akanksha talks about her reports on the Uttar Pradesh police arresting five Muslim men and accusing them of running a “racket” to mass convert Hindus to Islam. Emphasising the viciousness of the mainstream media’...