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Podcast: Reporters Without Orders
Episode: Reporters Without Orders Ep 228: Jharkhand school fake news, AAP’s labour welfare spending
Description: Basant Kumar and Ashwine Kumar Singh of Newslaundry are joined by freelance journalist Anand Dutta in this episode. They discuss Anand’s BBC report on how a school in Jharkhand’s Korwadih village became the subject of fake news. Headlines suggested that Muslims in the area had pressured the school to change its manner of praying. Anand said the principal of the school denied the claim. “The news that went out was fake and was written with the writer’s own perception of the situation and not facts,” Anand says. Anand also discusses his video report on how an athl...