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10 years in journalism

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Thinking about the number ’10’ is hard. It’s the number of years I will have soon been a […]

May 10, 2022 Life notes

On the NBDSA opinion against Zee News

On April 5, JNU PhD student Shehla Rashid tweeted that the National Broadcasting and Digital Standards Agency (NBDSA) […]

April 7, 2022 Analysis

Political merch from a newsroom

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Shekhar Gupta, the editor of The Print, shared the following image on his Instagram profile a couple days […]

October 12, 2021 Analysis

Cooperative distrust

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Is there a doctrine or manifesto of cooperative distrust? Because I think that’s what we need today, in […]

August 7, 2021 Analysis

Scicommers as knowledge producers

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Reading the latest edition of Raghavendra Gadagkar’s column in The Wire Science, ‘More Fun Than Fun’, about how […]

July 5, 2021 Scicomm

On the lab-leak hypothesis

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One problem with the debate over the novel coronavirus’s “lab leak” origin hypothesis is a problem I’m starting […]

June 5, 2021 Analysis, Scicomm, Science

The climate change of bad news

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This post flows a bit like the 1987 film Full Metal Jacket. As one friend put it, “It starts […]

October 15, 2020 Analysis, Op-eds

Good journalism is still around

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This morning, a trusted scientist called my attention to a tweet thread by Jordan Fischer listing the many […]

May 19, 2020 Op-eds

Nitin Gadkari, tomato chutney and blood

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There is a famous comedy scene in Tamil cinema, starring the actors Vadivelu and ‘Bonda’ Mani. Those who […]

May 14, 2020 Scicomm, Science

Poor journalism is making it harder for preprints

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There have been quite a few statements by various scientists on Twitter who, in pointing to some preprint […]

May 12, 2020 Op-eds, Science

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