India's media environment reflects the country's enormous diversity. There are 90,000 print outlets and more than 700 television stations that carry vibrant debate of government policies. But on a number of fronts, freedom of expression and freedom of the press is under threat.
On this edition of Global Journalist, a look inside India’s ongoing struggle with press freedom.
Our guests this week:
- Shubhranshu Choudhary, a Knight International Journalism Fellow who trains journalists in rural India.
- Bob Dietz, the coordinator of the Committee to Protect Journalists’ Asia Program.
- Karuna Nundy, an Indian Supreme Court lawyer and civil liberties advocate.
- Rishi Majumder, a freelance journalist and the associate partner of a new media company Oijo.