With many mainstream media journalists fleeing the increasingly stifling confines of newsrooms in search of editorial freedom, are we witnessing the third wave of Indian journalism?
For nearly four months last year, senior journalist Barkha Dutt went around the country documenting the pandemic. The saga of her 24,000 km journey is on her YouTube channel, Mojo Story, part of the content and events company she founded after a 21-year stint at English news channel NDTV.
Like her, many of India’s top television journalists can be found on YouTube these days. Some of their peers from print too are freelancing, and writing columns for mainstream—and increasingly, digital—publications. A few have even been testing the waters on Substack, the subscription-newsletter tool.
Faye D’Souza, the erstwhile executive editor at …
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