Newslaundry Interviews

On a bright Sunday morning, Atul, Manisha and Meghnad sit with journalist #FrederichNoronah to discuss the newspapers of the day. We look at the issue of unemployment in #Goa. Frederich tells us about the injection of communal politics in Goa, the uniqueness of the #Konkani language, the issue of conversion, concerns of the Goan #Catholic community and why this will be a very confusing election. He also says it’s super irritating when people think all you do in Goa is party and drink. We couldn’t agree more.

Atul Chaurasia, Manisha Pande and Meghnad S are on the election trail and will be traveling through Goa, UP, Uttarakhand and Punjab. Power our election coverage by contributing to our #NLSena project: https://newslaundry.com/sena?ref=social

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January 29, 2022.

This morning, the headlines bring the grim news that there have been 20 Covid deaths in Goa within a day﹘many of those who succumbed to the virus were unvaccinated. Meanwhile, the Congress has issued an ad that makes lack of high-speed internet in Goa an election issue.

We also tell you all about Goa’s couple candidates. If all 10 of them win, 25 percent of the Assembly will be husband-wife duos. Also, a rundown on candidates with the highest number of criminal cases. BJP’s pitch to fight crime in UP has turned queer in Goa.

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January 28, 2022

Welcome to the second episode of the Morning Show, where we take you through the major newspaper headlines as Atul, Manisha and Meghnad travel to states set for the 2022 Assembly elections.

In this episode, we have Gomantak group editor Raju Naik on board. He tells us about the mediascape in Goa and how a political party may be offering bribes to editors. Naik explains that most Goan newspapers are owned by mining companies and dependent on government advertising.

Full disclosure: Gomantak is owned by NCP’s Pawar family.

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January 27, 2020

We have a new show up! Atul, Manisha and Meghnad are on the election trail and will be traveling through Goa, Uttar Pradesh, Uttarakhand and Punjab.

Today, they are in Panjim and take you through the newspapers in the Morning Show. Which political party has the most ads? What's making headlines in the front pages? Who are political cartoons taking potshots at?

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Last week, former bishop Franco Mulakkal, accused of raping a nun in Kottayam 13 times, was acquitted by the Kottayam district court. The nun had alleged that despite her repeated complaints, the Catholic Church had ignored her. Five other nuns who spoke out in support of her faced retaliation from the church.

Sandhya Raju George is a lawyer who was on the panel of advocates representing the nuns in the case. In this conversation with Newslaundry’s Nidhi Suresh, she talks about the acquittal and judgement, and sexual harassment laws in India.

The conversation also spans judicial treatment of sexual assault survivors and the process of judicial trials in India. Tune in. 

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In a year marked by protests and the pandemic, two Newslaundry correspondents – Nidhi Suresh and Basant Kumar – navigate our biggest stories of 2021, and what they learned in the process.

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In this episode of NL Recess, writer and host of the podcast The Seen and the Unseen Amit Varma joins Chitranshu Tewari to talk about evolving media cultures and patterns in the digital space, the binaries of “bhakts” and “wokes”, and the difficult bracketing of Indian conservatism.

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Vanita Kohli-Khandekar is a journalist and author, whose book The Indian Media Business: Pandemic and After was released in October this year. 

In this interview with Chitranshu Tewari, Vanita explains the relationship between how broadcast media makes media and what the audience gets to see, the business economics of ad-funded media, and the lack of government foresight in seeing media as an industry.

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Sophie Zhang is a former data scientist at Facebook, now Meta, who published a series of articles in the Guardian on the social media platform’s fake engagement accounts. She alleged these often lead to interference in political elections.

In this interview with Chitranshu Tewari, Sophie describes the suspicious patterns of behaviour she observed in 2019 with respect to India. On the company’s reluctance to act on matters involving fake accounts in India, she points at “political pressure and the general lack of motivation of the company to police its own system”.

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