Bari Weiss said she was openly smeared and demeaned by colleagues at The New York Times who didn't fear their behaviour would be checked.

The HC noted that prima facie, no offence was disclosed against Goswami, and he had not intended to cause public disharmony or incite violence.

Masrat Zahra was named the winner of the 2020 Anja Niedringhaus Courage in Photojournalism Award. The jury praised the 26-year-old’s work for its sense of 'dread and community.'

The policy gives power to the Department of Information & Public Relations to examine the content of print, electronic and other media for 'fake news, plagiarism and unethical or anti-national activities.'

'The award is a testimony to the fact that Kashmir wasn't the way it was projected to the Indian public by their news channels,' photojournalist Showkat Nanda said after three J&K journalists won the Pulitzer Prize.

India dropped two places on a global press freedom index to be ranked 142nd out of 180 countries in the annual Reporters Without Borders analysis released last month.

In his tweet, he questioned why families were placed under home quarantine for merely speaking over the phone to Coronavirus positive patients.

The top court also clarified that no investigations will be carried out in any fresh FIRs lodged against Arnab Goswami arising out the news show related to Palghar incident.

Police said the journalist was indulging in unlawful activities through social media posts. A case was registered against him under UAPA.

Three journalists -- The Hindu correspondent Peerzada Ashiq, Gowhar Geelani and photojournalist Masrat Zahra -- have been booked by police.

The ministry has already sent rebuttals to leading foreign media organisations, including The Guardian, Wash­ington Post, Time, Al Jazeera, The Eco­nomist, Huffington Post, New York Times and the BBC.

In April 2019, India was ranked 140 out of 180 countries in the press freedom index released by Reporters without Borders. Increasingly, scribes are feeling the heat from overzealous administrations