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‘Be fearless in your approach; don’t hide the truth’, Nobel Peace Laureate Kailash Satyarthi addresses journalists

Nobel Peace Laureate Shri Kailash Satyarthi addressing the media in Bhopal today ‘Be fearless in your approach; don’t hide the truth’, Nobel Peace Laureate Kailash Satyarthi addresses journalists Bhopal, 27th July 2017: Asia’s oldest college of journalism, Makhanlal Chaturvedi University, hosted Nobel Peace Laureate Kailash Satyarthi at the orientation of their new batch …

Decentralized News Network Releases Project Roadmap

Timeline to demonstrate commitment to community adoption and engagement EDISON, New Jersey — The Decentralized News Network (DNN), a political news platform that delivers citizen journalism via a decentralized and incentivized blockchain-based network, has released its project roadmap. The plan, according to Samit Singh, CEO and co-founder of DNN, lays out accomplished milestones, including …

Attention Journalists: India Journalism Programme and Chevening Master’s Programme

The Chevening India Journalism Programme is a Fellowship programme aimed at high-flying, mid-career journalists from India and Bhutan. Fellows will undertake a specifically designed programme called Good Governance in a Changing World: Media, Politics and Society at the University of Westminster which offers an intensive learning experience that will sharpen thinking and leadership skills. Course …

Soft-Power or Hard-Power? Let’s put our heart where the money is – Pratim Ranjan Bose

Many years ago, I wrote a ‘story’, as we journalists describe newspaper reports, about an Indian company planning to sell solar powered inverter kits, good enough to run a TV, to Afghanistan. This was soon after the US invaded the frontier country and established a Taliban-free Hamid Karzai government. The war ravaged country was devoid …

Emergency solidarity protests worldwide to free journalists and Greenpeace activists held in Russian prison

Amsterdam, 5 October 2013 – Thousands of people are today taking part in an emergency day of solidarity protests around the world to demand the release of 30 people imprisoned in Russia after they were detained aboard a Greenpeace ship in the Arctic. Peaceful events are planned on every continent, in more than 135 locations …