Reporters Without Orders

Mar 08 2025 360 ep. 46 mins 1.6k
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Young Reporters talk about major stories of the week and what it took to cover them. Click here to support Newslaundry: http://bit.ly/paytokeepnewsfree
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Reporters Without Orders Ep 360: Police ‘action’ in Sambhal, rape case against Shyam Sunder Bhartia

Mar 08 2025 37 mins  
This week, host Basant Kumar is joined by Newslaundry’s Prateek Goyal and Avdhesh Kumar.Prateek talks about two big stories he reported on last week. The first is allegations of rape against prominent industrialist Shyam Sunder Bhartia. He explains why there was a delay in the police registering an FIR, and how a court had to get involved. The second, part of the Hindu Rashtra Pr

Reporters Without Orders Ep 359: Truth behind locals ‘fleeing’ Sambhal, cash for Delhi stampede victims

Mar 01 2025 51 mins  
This week, host Anmol Pritam is joined by Newslaundry’s Avdhesh Kumar and Shivnarayan Rajpurohit.Avdhesh’s ground report from Sambhal raised questions about the veracity of claims made by two prominent newspapers about locals “fleeing” the violence-tensed region. Citing officials, the outlets reported that several locals “fled” over fear of arrest or police crackdown. H

Reporters Without Orders Ep 358: ‘Official’ death toll at Kumbh, voting in Delhi’s reserved seats

Feb 28 2025 46 mins  
This week, host Pratyush Deep is joined by Newslaundry reporters Avdhesh Kumar and Basant Kumar.Avdhesh reported on how voters in Delhi’s 12 reserved seats voted in the recent polls. He explains that despite the AAP’s massive defeat, a large section of Dalit voters continued to vote for the party.Basant was on the ground in Prayagraj reporting on the stampede at the Mahakumbh.

Reporters Without Orders Ep 357: How BJP planned to wrest Delhi away from AAP

Feb 08 2025 56 mins  
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 t

Reporters Without Orders Ep 356: Delhi polls, the curious case of Ashwini Vaishnawʼs company

Feb 01 2025 45 mins  
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 D

Reporters Without Orders Ep 355: Delhi anti-incumbency, a trek to understand healthcare access

Feb 01 2025 36 mins  
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 rea

Reporters Without Orders Ep 354: How NL cracked the voter deletion series

Jan 11 2025 53 mins  
A reporters’ podcast about what made news and what shouldn’t have.NL TeamThis 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 Commi

Reporters Without Orders Ep 353: How NYT broke the story of Okhla plant ‘poisoning’ locals

Jan 04 2025 20 mins  
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

Reporters Without Orders Ep 352: The scenes behind the best of 2024

Dec 29 2024 52 mins  
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.

Reporters Without Orders Ep 351: The decline and fall of Network18?

Dec 21 2024 51 mins  
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, h