When it comes to digital media, local is quite vocal
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?
26 February, 2021•10 min
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26 February, 2021•10 min
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Editor's note: 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 Times Group-owned English news channel Mirror Now, now hosts discussions and debates on her YouTube channel minus the psychedelic on-screen graphics and shouting matches. Senior journalist Ajit Anjum, formerly managing editor at News 24 and India TV, has over 1.2 million subscribers on his YouTube channel; many of his ground reports from the recent farmers’ protest have gone viral and may have found their way to your social media timelines or WhatsApp groups. Some of the more enterprising and ambitious …
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