Sevanti Ninan

Sevanti Ninan
Sevanti Ninan

Sevanti Ninan is a Delhi-based journalist and was the founder editor of TheHoot.org, a media watch website.

Contours of Media Control in India

The Bharatiya Janata Party-led government continues to aim for narrative control of the media. Since print and television news have already been coopted and no longer pose a problem, the effort now…
▶14-Mar-2023
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Covid-19 Accelerates the Transformation of India's Newspaper Industry

India’s newspapers grew by relying on advertising, a dependence that began to unravel before the pandemic struck. Dailies have shut down and journalists have lost jobs. To revive their fortunes, they…
▶13-Jan-2021
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How India's Media Landscape Changed Over Five Years (Video)

A video adaptation of Sevanti Ninan's article "How India's Media Landscape Changed Over Five Years" (30 August, 2019). Courtesy "Free Speech Collective".
▶16-Nov-2019
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Defanging RTI, Step by Step

Ever since the Right to Information Act was enacted in 2005 there have been continuous attempts to dilute this potentially powerful law. The dilution has come from government action as well as by…
▶21-Aug-2019
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How India's Media Landscape Changed Over Five Years

Mainstream media was delegitimised over the past five years by the BJP government. Co-option and self-censorship by this media have followed. Alongside, the use of social media has grown hugely,…
▶06-Jun-2019
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