Tag Archives: The Wire
Posting stats — 2024
When I joined The Wire in 2015, the average length of my blog posts increased from around 700 words to around 850 words, and over time to 1,000 words. This wasn’t forced so much as a natural reflection of the … Continue reading
Posted in Life notes
Tagged blogging, Jorge Luis Borges, Margarita Guerrero, monkey of the inkpot, The Book of Imaginary Beings, The Hindu, The Wire
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Posting stats — 2024
When I joined The Wire in 2015, the average length of my blog posts increased from around 700 words to around 850 words, and over time to 1,000 words. This wasn’t forced so much as a natural reflection of the … Continue reading
Posted in Life notes
Tagged blogging, Jorge Luis Borges, Margarita Guerrero, monkey of the inkpot, The Book of Imaginary Beings, The Hindu, The Wire
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12 years and counting
I’ve been a journalist for 12 years. For the first few years these anniversaries helped to remember that I was able to survive in the industry but now, after 12, I’m well and truly part of the industry itself — … Continue reading
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Tagged journalism, paywall, The Hindu, The Wire
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A Q&A about philosophy in journalism
Earlier this year, Varun Bhatta, assistant professor of philosophy at the Indian Institute of Science Education and Research, Bhopal, reached out to ask me some questions for something he was writing about the representation of philosophical ideas in journalism. He … Continue reading
Posted in Op-eds, Scicomm
Tagged business model, Creative Commons, editorial independence, journalism, philosophy, public interest, science communication, science journalism, The Conversation, The Hindu, The Wire, Varun Bhatta
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Marginalia: On NewsClick, NYT, toolkits, etc.
The Bharatiya Janata Party in power in India knows that the process is the punishment, that the amount of punishment imposed depends on the law invoked in the chargesheet, and that no law is as ripe for misuse in this … Continue reading
Posted in Analysis
Tagged Bharatiya Janata Party, Kavita Krishnan, Neville Roy Singham, NewsClick, parachute journalism, Prabir Purkayastha, The New York Times, The Wire, Unlawful Activities Prevention Act
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Hasan Minhaj’s search for the premise
When Hasan Minhaj spoke on his show about living through some dangerous experiences as a Muslim man from an Indian family growing up in the US of A, he wasn’t speaking the truth. He told Clare Malone of The New … Continue reading
Posted in Culture, Op-eds
Tagged Clare Malone, Devesh Kumar, Hasan Minhaj, journalism, Ronan Farrow, The New Yorker, The Wire
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Notes for a ‘The Open Notebook’ report
I was quoted in a new reported feature in The Open Notebook, entitled ‘Expanding the Geographical Borders of Your Source List’. Continue reading
Posted in Scicomm
Tagged Allison Whitten, Central Civil Services (Conduct) Rules 1964, foreign media, internet connectivity, Karen Emslie, OpenAI Whisper, science communication, science journalism, social media, The Open Notebook, The Wire
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Saying bye to The Wire
November 30, 2022, is my last day. Continue reading
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Tagged science journalism, The Hindu, The Wire
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