As 2024 dawns, revisit the best of Newslaundry’s work last year

It’s the first day of 2024, a time filled with possibilities after the nostalgia-soaked space between Christmas and New Year’s Day.

Which makes it the perfect time to look back at the year that was. Here’s a round-up of the work we did at Newslaundry – stories that you loved and that we’re so proud of too.

We profiled Gautam Adani’s NDTV, including how a bureau chief quit when he was asked to “create a ruckus” at a Rahul Gandhi press meet. Ravish Kumar wrote an exclusive piece for us on Big Media chasing Big Money. 

We reported on how the Madhya Pradesh government hires people close to the RSS for government jobs and why Smriti Irani lost her temper with a reporter who merely asked her a question. CJI Chandrachud was the target of unprecedented online trolling, and Modi had a splashy ad campaign for the G20 in Delhi. A Pune principal was assaulted over bogus communal claims, and a group of men vandalised a Christian stall at a book fair. 

We also reported on the rise of right-wing influencers, and how they’re being co-opted for government projects.

And that’s just a sample of our work this year. 

Our Sena projects are Newslaundry touchstones and in 2023, we truly took them across the length and breadth of India. We reported on the Joshimath crisis and Adivasis displaced in Chhattisgarh. In Gujarat, we looked at the dark underbelly that claims to help ordinary Indians fulfil their ‘American dream’. We reported on the elections in Karnataka, the ethnic violence in Manipur, and the horrific floods and environment issues that plague the Himalayas. We ended the year with a Sena project on the assembly polls in Chhattisgarh, Rajasthan, Madhya Pradesh, Telangana and Mizoram.

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