SAMSN Blog

  • 24 Jan 2018
    ‘Where is Prageeth?’

    By Laxmi Murthy Comments

    The cartoonist disappeared 8 years ago this day. His wife’s struggle to find him shines a light on Sri Lanka’s dismal record on enforced disappearances, Laxmi Murthy reports. It began like any other day for the Eknaligoda family in Colombo, Sri L...

  • 03 Nov 2017
    #EndImpunity: Change is coming

    By Jane Worthington Comments

    Gauri Lankesh, Wai Yen Heinn, Rudy Alicaway, Santanu Bhowmick, Yameen Rasheed and Haroon Khan. These are a few of our fallen. Taimoor Abbas was just 22 years of age when he took a fatal hit after being caught in the crossfire covering a police assaul...

  • 17 Oct 2017
    Raajje TV: Fines, fundraising and lawsuits

    By Mohamed Junayd A. Saleem Comments

    During a daily team meeting one Sunday at Raajje TV, journalists and producers debated on ways to minimise the impact of their third fundraising drive for the year on their work. The campaigns – the current one launched on October 8 – battle exor...

  • 25 Sep 2017
    Living to Tell the Story

    By Zaheena Rasheed Comments

    When journalists are under severe threat in a beleaguered media in the Maldives, one of the only ways to survive and continue to inform the public might be to leave, says Zaheena Rasheed About a year ago, I packed a small suitcase and reluctantly lef...

  • 22 Sep 2017
    ‘Why did the police not stop the mob?’

    By Geeta Seshu Comments

    Shantanu Bhowmick was clearly marked out since he worked for DinRaat channel which was perceived as being pro-CPM, the ruling party, journalists in Tripura tell Geeta Seshu about his killing. “Shantanu Bhowmick was caught and lynched in full view o...

  • 07 Sep 2017
    A rainsong for you Gauri Lankesh

    By Madhu Bhushan Comments

    Madhu Bhushan, fellow-Bangalorean and feminist activist recounts her meeting with the fiery and outspoken senior journalist-activist just hours before Gauri Lankesh was shot at point blank range just outside her Bangalore home on September 5 by unkno...

  • 28 Aug 2017
    Byteing Back: Dhanya Rajendran Counters Online Abuse

    By Laxmi Murthy Comments

    A robust response to online violence against a woman editor prompts a well-known actor to urge his fans to stop the abuse, and one of the abusers to post an apology on Twitter. When Dhanya Rajendran, editor-in-chief of the digital news website, The ...

  • 28 Jun 2017
    #JournosAgainstShutdowns: A South Asian Conversation

    By IFJ Asia-Pacific Comments

    As part of the Campaign Against Internet Shutdowns in South Asia, journalists from five countries in South Asia speak about how internet shutdowns affect freedom of expression and discuss what can be done to counter the phenomenon. Ujjwal Acharya (UA...

  • 23 Jun 2017
    Renewed hope for media staff: India’s highest court rules on the Wage Board

    By R Rajendra Prabhu Comments

    The Supreme Court of India on June 19, 2017, delivered a verdict in a long-pending case concerning journalists and non-journalist employees of newspapers on the implementation of the Majithia Wage Board. While interpretations of the order by the benc...

  • 15 Jun 2017
    Crucial link

    By Ujjwal Acharya Comments

    Ujjwal Acharya muses about how life – professional, social and personal – is utterly cramped in the absence of access to the internet, necessitating a strong pushback to attempts to shut it down. It is almost impossible to think of life without t...