Media Bites: Episode 4 - Is the Press Free in India? - Naresh Fernandes, Siddharth Varadarajan, Dhanya Rajendran and Abhinandan Sekhri
On the Global Press Freedom Index, India ranks 142 out of 180 countries. To make sense of why a country that prides itself on being the world’s largest democracy fares so abysmally on press freedom, it’s imperative to locate and speak about the different pressures that journalists are under. To this end, Roli Pulse, in association with Newslaundry, brings you this podcast with Siddharth Varadarajan, editor of the Wire; Naresh Fernandes, editor of Scroll; Dhanya Rajendran, chief editor of the News Minute; and Abhinandan Sekhri, co-founder of Newslaundry. They discuss the pressures the Indian media faced in the past and how they are different from what it must deal with today.
