Tag: nepal
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It is important that public figures be held to account for what they say and claim. Media, which has such an important role in holding the public figures to account, also displays bias. In some extreme cases, media has misrepresented facts. Therefore, Panos South Asia, announces setting up a fact-checking website to encourage transparency and…
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onaissues: Meet Rajneesh Bhandari, one of the three 2014 MJ Bear Fellows. A former television journalist, Rajneesh coordinates Media Gufa, which requires journalists to be isolated in a room for 72 hours to report news stories using only social media and another group of journalists to report stories from a rural area without using the internet.…
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Caught On Camera: Human Rights Videos on GV
[Originally published here as part of WITNESS’s collaboration with Global Voices Online] You’d be forgiven for thinking it’s been Saddam, Saddam, Saddam, in recent weeks, but GV has covered other human rights videos that deserve a bit of limelight – so, in this regular new feature, I’m going to round up the best of those…
Sameer Padania 