Wrong TurnThe Buzz Cut: Why Did the Police Expect to Find Swara Bhaskar at the Offices of a Liberal News Publication? This week in The Buzz Cut, we look at billionaires' flights to space and the stand-off between monkeys and Indians. By Saumya Kalia
Unfettered AccessRestrictions on Journalists Covering Parliament Debate Threaten Transparency, Media Bodies Say "There appears to be a general effort to restrict access to Parliament and its precincts to only a handful of journalists," they wrote in a letter. By Rohitha Naraharisetty
Breaking NowPeople’s Trust in News Grew Globally During Covid19 but Remained Low in India: Survey While trust in legacy papers remained the same, respondents felt that TV news was more polarizing and brought down their overall trust in the news. By Rohitha Naraharisetty
Let Dissent Breathe“It’s Time We Define Limits of Sedition” To Protect Media Freedom: SC The court refused to allow any coercive action against two Telugu news channels noting the FIRs were a way to “muzzle media freedom.” By Rohitha Naraharisetty