Reporters Without Orders

Feb 01 2025 356 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 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

Reporters Without Orders Ep 350: UP STF’s ‘fake encounters’, Nita Ambani’s life and PR

Dec 14 2024 59 mins  
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�

Reporters Without Orders Ep 349: Illegal vehicles on Delhi roads, aftermath of Sambhal violence

Dec 07 2024 28 mins  
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 goin

Reporters Without Orders Ep 348: Inside Sambhal violence, ‘voter suppression’ in UP

Nov 30 2024 28 mins  
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 d

Reporters Without Orders Ep 347: Jhansi fire tragedy, migration in Bundelkhand

Nov 23 2024 47 mins  
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