Tag Archives: New York

“I was asked to leave my phones outside. I was told, ‘resign now or be terminated’. The HR manager held the relieving letter. By the time I got home an hour later, I’d been locked out of my official email”: a brave note from a “journalist of courage”

30 July 2020

Hundreds of journalists have lost their jobs in India in the middle of the COVID pandemic with barely a squeak. The haemorrhaging has hollowed out newsrooms at the very moment news consumers expect more (and better) from journalism. But it is all hush-hush. Chhupa rustom. Unlike more civilised parts of the journalistic world, where the…

And the winner of the best magazine cover is…

14 October 2008

The New York magazine cover that won top honours at the American Magazine Congress last week. Judges cited the March 24 cover, which featured disgraced NY governor Eliot Spitzer, for its “directness, humour, and simplicity.” “The cover required no headlines. The image succeeds all by itself.”

Will this man be the next US Secretary of State?

25 April 2007

When Indian journalists like M.J. Akbar, Arun Shourie, Chandan Mitra, Sudheendra Kulkarni et al cosy up to politicians, tout a particular ideological line, stand for elections, grab non-journalistic posts, negotiate deals, etc, we look at them with a slight degree of circumspection. Are they, you wonder, misusing their editorial positions and platforms to advance a…