A Session w Journalist Ms Sandya Ravishankar #journalist #sandhyaravishankar #covid19 #ramnathgoenka

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#journalist #defamation #media #news #sandhyravishankar Hi Everyone, we are delighted to have amongst us Ms. Sandhya Ravishankar. Maam is an investigative journalist based in Chennai, India. She has covered illegal beach sand mining in Tamil Nadu extensively for over six years and has been subject to harassment, threats and has also battled court cases filed by the miners. Sandhya also won India's prestigious Ramnath Goenka award for this reportage in 2019. Sandhya has an abundant love for environmental journalism, especially of the investigative kind, and she believes it is crucial to find and expose the power structures that seek to destroy the environment for profit alone. Sandhya has adopted four Indian mongrels and adores dogs. During the session we talked about maam's journey as a journalist,several of her experiences especially with legal system,the defamation suit, ideological balance,the problems faced by journalists while reporting and current market trends,covid crisis and more.

0:00 - Intro

1:15 - Journalism as a career

4:40 - Difficulties faced especially with the defamation suit

9:52 - Agency of woman

10:21 - Ideological balance of Journalist and how does it affect reporting

16:24 - Modi v anti Modi and Pro state govt v anti state govt

18:32 - High Court Judgement- Freedom of Speech, Criminal Defamation

19:45 - Right to privacy and challenges/threats. UAPA 21:35 - Government Advertisement Model of Sustenance "...AS LONG AS THEY ARE GIVING YOU ADS,THEY HAVE GOT ONE HAND AROUND YOUR THROAT..."

25:58 - Responsibility of Editors, supporting the Journalist : "EVEN THOUGH SHE IS A FREELANCER.WE ARE NOT GOING TO THROW HER TO THE WOLVES.WE ARE GOING TO FIGHT"

28:56 - Sources risking lives for the story

32:00- need for UAPA other such laws to crush dissent

34:26 - q&a 35:58 - India Ahead

37:10 - Online Entity and the recent rules for it (Intermediary Guidelines and Digital Media Ethics Code) Rules, 2021 and Online Content restriction

39:49- Election Reporting

41:20 - Twitter 😅

43:51 - Book on Karunanidhi. Journalist v Biographer

46:50 - Message to upcoming journalists

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