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“There was never a golden age in Indian journalism. But it was never as bad as it is today. Every good aspect of journalism is being destroyed rapidly. This was expected. But what we have today is truly the ‘dark age’ of journalism. There are numerous news channels in India but all of them have compromised on their ethics. Our media ecosystem has been gutted and destroyed.” – Ravish Kumar, journalist, former Senior Executive Editor NDTV, main protagonist in While We Watched (2022)
In Freedom House’s report for 2021, India dropped from having a status as a “free country” to a “partly free country”, challenging the popular notion of “The world’s largest democracy”. The country has taken an authoritarian turn during the years of Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) rule, with crackdowns on civil and political rights, including on freedoms of speech, press and peaceful assembly. Government-sponsored news outlets play a growing role in the spread of fake news and hate-speech against minorities in India.
Panel
Harmeet Kaur (Moderator),
Elisabeth Eide (Professor Dept. of Journalism and Media Studies, OsloMet)
Anwesha Dutta (Senior Researcher, CMI)
In collaboration with HUMAN International Documentary Film Festival og Det norske menneskerettighetsfond (NHRF)