The FIR was registered on July 13 at the Ballia police station in connection to a video on his YouTube channel on July 12, in which Anjum had alleged large-scale irregularities in the voter list in the Sahebpur Kamal assembly constituency. 

The video showed how the SIR process was being undertaken in Balia and claimed that many voter forms were being filled and uploaded without the Election Commission’s required documents or photographs.

https://thewire.in/rights/journalist-ajit-anjum-booked-over-his-video-on-bihar-sir-digipub-condemns 

14/07/2025

The video of the chilling attack began with Barve, founder-editor of Samarth Bharat newspaper and SBP YouTube channel, speaking on video about illegal construction activity on a riverbed in Nigothwadi village near Manchar town in Pune district of Maharashtra. Suddenly, Morde swiftly raised a wooden rod and hit her repeatedly even as she screamed for help. https://thewire.in/media/pune-journalist-sneha-barve-brutally-attacked-while-reporting-heres-what-happened 

Barve was literally pounded with the huge rod till she became unconscious. The cameraperson, Ajaz Sheikh, who continued to record the attack, was also beaten when Morde’s aides realised the attack was being videographed. Bystanders who came to her rescue, were also severely beaten and one’s hand was fractured while another got his nose broken.

free Speech Colective

15/07/2026

Only 25 per cent of the journalists who deposed before the committee said that they received formal emails from their companies about retrenchments. In nearly 75 per cent cases, all communications regarding retrenchments were oral. https://thewire.in/media/80-journalists-laid-off-during-covid-19-forced-to-resign-finds-press-council-panel-report 

Majority of the journalists who were laid off during the Covid-19 pandemic were forced to resign or opt for voluntary retirements and terminated from their positions by their news organisations, according to a report by the Press Council of India (PCI) to study the impact of retrenchment of journalists during the Covid-19 pandemic.

The report titled “Report on retrenchment of journalists by media groups during the Covid-19 period” was prepared after a total of 51 journalists from 17 news organisations across English, Hindi, Marathi, Bengali languages and 12 journalist unions and associations deposed before the committee formed in September 2023.

by Sravasti Dasgupta

04/09/2024

Protection for Journalists Under Threat Under New Labour Code  2020 https://www.newsclick.in/protection-journalists-under-threat-new-labour-codel  The attack on journalists’ rights is set to face another major blow, as the Centre proposes to do away with the constitution of a wage board – tasked with devising a permanent wage fixation machinery – along with axing the protections that were designed to protect the media. A large number of vernacular media houses are still covered by the wage board, though these too are fast moving to contractual employment..

The abolishing of the wage board will be achieved through the passage of one of the three labour code Bills, tabled in Parliament last week

https://www.newsclick.in/Labour-Code-Bills-Take-Back-19th-Century The three bills – The Occupational Safety, Health and Working Conditions (OSH&WC) Code, 2020, The Industrial Relations (IR) Code, 2020, and The Code on Social Security, 2020 – were tabled in Parliament on Saturday. Last year, The Code on Wages, 2019, which sought to regulate wage and bonus payments in all matters employment, was passed by both houses of Parliament.