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Podcast: Reporters Without Orders
Episode: Reporters Without Orders Ep 140: Sakal Media’s harassment of Newslaundry reporter and Bihar Election
Description: In this episode, host Snigdha Sharma is joined by Newslaundry’s Basant Kumar and Prateek GoyalThe conversation hits off with the arrest of Arnab Goswami by Mumbai police. For the first time in the country, some of the most important ministers of the union cabinet came together and called for press freedom to condemn the event. Considering the numerous incidents of journalists being harassed for doing their job that did not see public denouncement from anyone from the government, Snigdha asks if press freedom in India is selectively applied. In the same con...