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NL Cheatsheet: How caste shapes India’s newsrooms

2021-11-10 0 Dailymotion

Did you know that three out of four anchors of flagship TV news debates are upper caste? That not one is Dalit, Adivasi, or OBC?<br /><br />That merely 10 out of the 972 articles featured on the covers of a dozen magazines that we studied are about issues related to caste? <br /><br />That no more than five percent of all articles published in the country’s six largest English newspapers are written by Dalits and Adivasis?<br /><br />These are some of the shocking findings contained in the report Who Tells Our Stories Matters: Representation of Marginalised Caste Groups in Indian Newsrooms, which was published last year by Newslaundry in association with Oxfam India.<br /><br />In this video, we explain how Indian newsrooms continue to be dominated by upper caste Hindus. <br /><br />Read the full report: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1BsyiTPDIBh9mFArtvPnNSKMoZ-Kjlcp6/view<br /><br />Watch.<br /><br />Support independent media and subscribe to Newslaundry: http://bit.ly/paytokeepnewsfree<br /><br />To watch this and many more videos, click on http://www.newslaundry.com/<br /><br />Follow and engage with us on social media:<br />Facebook: https://facebook.com/newslaundry<br />Twitter: https://twitter.com/newslaundry<br />Instagram: https://instagram.com/newslaundry

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