Reporters Without Orders Ep 367: Journalists’ disillusionment with mainstream media

This week, host Basant Kumar is joined by independent journalists Tanzil Asif, Neetu Singh and Sagar Patel, who talk about working in mainstream media, why they quit it and decided to go independent. 

Legacy media, Tanzil says, only focuses on feeding their agenda rather than serving public interest, making a journalist morally corrupt.  Neetu explains that mainstream media restricted her freedom to report because it lacked the guts to hold the government accountable. Some reporters, however, are just fooling people by pretending to be independent journalists, remarks Sagar. 

They talk of their challenges in choosing to work in independent media after exiting mainstream media. Despite the lack of resources, hurdles in reporting and problems in their establishing and running their organisations, they say their decision to quit legacy media was most satisfactory

Tune in.

Timecodes

00:00:00 - Introduction

00:02:02 - Reasons for exiting mainstream media

00:12:28 - Challenges for independent media

00:23:24 - Hurdles for being independent journalist

00:56:48 - Recommendations

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Produced and edited by Saif Ali Ekram, recorded by Anil Kumar.

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