Reporters Without Orders

This week, host Sumedha Mittal is joined by The Caravan’s Sunil Kashyap. Based on the learnings from his reportage on BJP’s strategy to make a comeback in Delhi, Kashyap underlines how in its campaign and outreach efforts, the saffron party foregrounded regional and caste identities in Delhi this time. The party pulled no stops to win over different communities and groups with targeted promises an...

This week, host Anmol Pritam is joined by Newslaundry’s Pratyush Deep and Basant Kumar. Pratyush profiled Railways minister Ashwini Vaishnaw, digging into the curious growth of his small firm. Within six years, its revenue rose from Rs 45 lakh to over Rs 323 crore. He also sheds light on his journey from an engineer to a minister. Basant discusses his experiences reporting on the Delhi assembly po...

This week, host Basant Kumar is joined by Ranchi-based independent journalist Anand Dutta and Newslaundry ’s Drishti Choudhary. Anand talks about his IndiaSpend report for which he trekked for several hours in remote areas of Jharkhand to understand how it is like for vulnerable sections to access healthcare. Across India, people have to cover an average distance of 13.55 km to reach a community h...

A reporters’ podcast about what made news and what shouldn’t have. NL Team This week, host Shivnarayan Rajpurohit is joined by Sumedha Mittal. Sumedha’s series for Newslaundry , Broken Ballots , tracked curious deletions and additions of voters to the electoral rolls. Based on data and fieldwork, she found an odd pattern, which she says places a question mark on the Election Commission. She also c...

In November last year, there were a flurry of reports in the Indian media on a waste-to-energy plant in Delhi’s Okhla that causes significant health risks to people living nearby.  All these reports cited the same source – an investigative piece in The New York Times by journalist Maria Abi-Habib. Currently based in Mexico, Maria spent five years, between 2019 and 2024, to report on the story...

It’s the New Year special episode with all the Newslaundry reporters in the studio. They talk about the best stories of 2024 and what happened behind the scenes during those assignments. Produced and edited by Saif Ali Ekram, recorded by Anil Kumar. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

This week, host Sumedha Mittal is joined by The Caravan’s Sagar. Sagar talks about his report on Network18 shifting from public interest journalism to what he describes as appeasing the government. He explains how Network18 changed after Ambani took over and how journalists were asked to defend the prime minister. This led to the resignation, even firing, of several journalists, he explained.&nbsp...

This week, host Tanishka Sodhi is joined by independent journalist Akanksha Kumar and the Caravan ’s Amrita Singh. Akanksha reported on the alleged fake encounter of one Bhalchandra Yadav by the Uttar Pradesh Special Task Force. She delves into the workings of the UP STF, the state of law and order in UP, and a purportedly normalised trend of police encounters in the state. Amrita’s report was a d...

This week, host Anmol Pritam is joined by Newslaundry ’s Avdhesh Kumar. Avdhesh reported on the nexus of middlemen and Delhi police officials allegedly facilitating the plying of illegal vehicles in the capital. He explains the workings of the network and the organised crime happening in broad daylight.  He also reported on how Congress leader Rahul Gandhi was stopped from going to Sambhal, w...

This week, host Pratyush Deep is joined by Newslaundry ’s Avdhesh Kumar and Sumedha Mittal. Avdhesh reported on the violence that erupted amid protests against the archaeological survey of Mughal-era Shahi Jama Masjid in Uttar Pradesh’s Sambhal. He delved into how the clashes between police personnel and locals led to the death of six civilians. Sumedha’s report was on the odd dip in voter turnout...

This week, host Basant Kumar is joined by Dainik Bhaskar’s Rajesh Sahu and independent Journalist Sneha Richhariya. Rajesh reported on the Jhansi hospital tragedy , in which a fire incident claimed the lives of 15 infants. He says that an overcrowded NICU, expired fire extinguishers, and negligence of the hospital administration led to the incident. Sneha has reported on the impact of migration in...

Host Sumedha Mittal is joined by Newslaundry ’s Tanishka Sodhi and Shivnarayan Rajpurohit. Tanishka reported on the Ladki Bahin scheme, launched recently by the Maharashtra government for women in the poll-bound state. She explains whether this scheme, the Mahayuti’s biggest bet this election, holds currency for voters.  to multiple women and tries to make out that the newly minted scheme is...

This week, host Shivnarayan Rajpurohit is joined by Newslaundry ’s Anmol Pritam and Basant Kumar.  Anmol reported on the increasing encroachment and concretisation of the Yamuna River floodplains, which has heavily contributed to the river’s degradation. He throws light on the consequence of arbitrary construction by the Delhi Development Authority.  Basant’s report was on Prime Minister...

This week, host Anmol Pritam is joined by Scroll ’s Ayush Tiwari. Ayush has reported on the increasing rift between Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath and the BJP. He explains how the making of Yogi as a “tough and strong” leader has led to dissatisfaction among the cadre and created cracks within the party. He says the power has shifted from party workers and MLAs to police officials. T...

This week, host Pratyush Deep is joined by Scroll ’s Rokibuz Zaman and Newslaundry ’s Drishti Choudhary. Rokibuz reported on the Supreme Court’s judgement upholding the constitutional validity of Section 6A of the Citizenship Act, 1955 – a provision added exclusively for Assam. He says that the judgement upholds 1971 as the year of entry, which contradicts the government’s 2014 cut-off under the C...

This week, host Basant Kumar is joined by Newslaundry’s Avdhesh Kumar and Prateek Goyal. Avdhesh reported from ground zero on the communal violence in Uttar Pradesh’s Bahraich , which resulted in the killing of a 22-year-old man and mob-led arson of several local houses. He delves into the factors that led to the communal tensions and how they escalated.   Prateek’s report was on the cha...

This week, host Anmol Pritam is joined by Newslaundry’s Basant Kumar and Shivnarayan Rajpurohit. Basant reported extensively on the Haryana polls from ground zero. He sheds light on the factors that didn’t work in favour of the Congress in Haryana. He also talks about how the exit poll predictions fell flat. Shivnarayan’s recent report was on the legal dispute between the Indian army and the Uttar...

This week, host Shivnarayan Rajpurohit is joined by Newslaundry’s Basant Kumar and Drishti Choudhary. Drishti reported on the crisis facing the Delhi Commission for Women . She says that at present, the commission does not have any office bearers, its helpline numbers are defunct, and many of the staffers and NGOs have not been paid for months. Basant covered the Haryana elections and reported on...

This week, host Tanishka Sodhi is joined by Newslaundry’s Manisha Pande and Shivnarayan Rajpurohit. Manisha reported on press freedom in Kashmir from ground zero. She speaks about her interviews and conversations with journalists in the valley, who described an intensifying clampdown on media, a sense of suffocation, and censorship, particularly after the abrogation of Article 370.  Shivnaray...

This week, host Pratyush Deep is joined by Newslaundry ’s Basant Kumar and Anmol Pritam. Basant and Anmol are currently on ground zero to report from poll-bound Haryana and Jammu and Kashmir, respectively.  In Haryana, Basant has so far examined the progress of the Smart City Mission, issues of one of the most backward districts, and Olympian Vinesh Phogat’s political contest in Julana. Meanw...

This week, host Sumedha Mittal is joined by independent journalist Sunil Kashyap. Sunil reported on the purported rift between Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath and the BJP workers. He delves into the changes in party dynamics after its lukewarm performance in the state in the Lok Sabha polls. He adds that despite the turmoil within the BJP and the tussle between Adityanath and the part...

This week, host Basant Kumar is joined by Scroll ’s Ayush Tiwari and independent journalist Anand Dutta. Ayush reported on the controversies surrounding SEBI chief Madhabi Puri Buch. He delves into the allegations against Buch in the Hindenburg report and why the undisclosed information about her association with her former firms is a “conflict of interest”. Anand talks about his report on the ong...

This week, host Shivnarayan Rajpurohit is joined by Newslaundry’s Sumedha Mittal, The News Minute’s Sukanya Shaji, and independent journalist Nidhi Suresh. Nidhi and Sukanya reported on Kerala’s #MeToo storm and the exploitation of female actors in the Kerala film industry. They also reported on the recently published Hema Committee report, which revealed that the industry’s top male actors, direc...

This week, host Tanishka Sodhi is joined by independent journalist Pranab Mondal and the Quint’s Aliza Noor. Pranab talks about his report on the horrific rape and murder of a 31-year-old junior doctor at RG Kar Medical College and Hospital in Kolkata and the events that unfolded following the incident. He discusses how it is a culmination of mismanagement and malpractice while shedding light on t...

This week, host Anmol Pritam is joined by Newslaundry’s Basant Kumar and Ishita Pradeep. Basant reported on a “herbal firm” which allegedly frauds youngsters in lure of a “luxurious life”. He talks about his investigation into the company’s modus operandi of network marketing and pressuring its staff for adding new members in the chain, failing which they were physically assaulted and abused. Ishi...