On the intervening night of June 15-16 this year, 20 Indian soldiers were killed by the Chinese People's Liberation Army in #Ladakh. Over 1,000 sq km of Indian territory was seized. Colonel #SushantSingh, a former officer of the Indian Army who was a deputy editor of the #IndianExpress newspaper, on how most of the media ignored the warning signs and failed to ask questions of the #NarendraModi government leading to the largest loss of Indian land since the 1962 war. Col Singh is now a senior fellow at the Center for Police Research, #CPR #PLA

J-POD: The Podcast on Journalists and Journalism: Recent Episodes

Krishna Prasad

LionelBarber, Editor of the #FinancialTimes, London, from 2005-2020, on his new book ‘The Powerful and the Damned’, and his role in turning around the business newspaper into a digital-first, global news organisation at once admired, respected and feared by political and business leaders.

AmitVarma, host of the long-form podcast 'The Seen and The Unseen', answers the Proust Questionnaire to mark the 200th episode of his show. And explains why more journalists should get behind a mic and start podcasting content of value.

UttamSengupta, former resident editor of #TheTimesOfIndia in Patna, and former Bihar correspondent of #TheTelegraph and #IndiaToday, on why the media fails to read the mind of the #Bihari voter, election after election.

AunindyoChakravarty, the former #NDTVIndia and #NDTVProfit managing editor, who first revealed the TV ratings manipulation in India in 2008, on the TRP ratings scandal involving #ArnabGoswami's #RepublicTV and #RepublicBharat

KunalPurohit, one of the few Indian journalists closely tracking the role of social media in the rise of Hindu nationalism and Hindutva hate crimes, on 'The Wall Street Journal' expose of #FacebookIndia's #BJP bias through its chief India lobbyist #AnkhiDas.

PatriciaMukhim, Editor of 'The Shillong Times', on the suspension of publication of the newspaper due to alleged violation of COVID protocols, and the pressures of doing journalism in the North East of India.

AnanthKrishnan, the Mandarin-speaking Beijing Correspondent of #TheHindu, on his book "India's China Challenge", in the wake of #Coronavirus and the Chinese incursions into #Ladakh, and what the future holds for both countries.

SeemaChishti, former #BBC broadcaster and #IndianExpress journalist, who was an eye witness to the demolition of the #BabriMasjid in #Ayodhya in 1992, on what it took to cover the story before the days of satellite TV and the internet---and how the event changed India's course.

KGiriprakash, chief of bureau, #TheHinduBusinessLine, and author of 'The Vijay Mallya Story', on why business journalists couldn't smell the troubles of #VGSiddhartha, the founder of #CafeCoffeeDay, who died on July 31, 2019

ParulSharma, former spokesperson of #StarTV, and Delhi-based fine art photographer, who captured the last lap of hundreds of #COVID victims on an iPhone, on what it takes to document death---and what it has done to her.

ParanjoyGuhaThakurta, former Editor #EPW, on why Google and Facebook want to piggyback on #RelianceJio---and the implications of an emerging oligopoly for Indian democracy. #EconomicAndPoliticalWeekly

CoomiKapoor, consulting editor, #TheIndianExpress, and author, #TheEmergency, on media censorship during the darkest phase of India's post-independence history---and the heroes and villains of the Emergency.

TheNetPaper, the world's first crowd-sourced newspaper, which navigates social media for you and delivers the news, the views and the juice, straight to your mailbox. http://thenetpaper.substack.com

RukminiShrinivasan, host of #TheMovingCurve podcast, and former data editor of #TheHindu and #HuffPostIndia, on what India's #COVID numbers mean---and #DataJournalism as a career option.https://thenetpaper.substack.com/p/13-things-you-wanted-to-know-about

MagsaysayAward winning journalist #PSainath, founder of the People's Archive of Rural India #PARI, on why Indian media structures do not have room for farmers, labourers and migrant workers

BSrinivasan, managing director of the pioneering #Tamil magazine #AnandaVikatan, on how #Coronavirus has reaffirmed the value of print journalism. https://indianjournalismreview.com/2020/05/02/ananda-vikatan-chief-b-srinivasan/

NRam, former Editor-in-Chief of #TheHindu, and Chairman, #TheHindu Publishing Group, on the future of print media after #Coronavirus, whether #TheHindu will be printing a newspaper 50 years from now, and the two pieces of advice for #journalism students

PremPanicker, former editor of rediff.com and former managing director of yahoo India, on the digital options before #journalists whose careers are threatened by the media meltdown due to #Coronavirus https://indianjournalismreview.com/2020/04/12/prem-panicker-on-digital-options-for-journalists/

ChidanandRajghatta, US correspondent of #TheTimesOfIndia, on #DonaldTrump, #NarendraModi and how the two countries are joined at the hip of #Coronavirus---and why Indian TV #journalists should stop wearing the #KantLangot

SylviaKarpagam and #MytreyiKrishnan of Centre for Ethical Reporting in Media, on how #Kannada journalism communalised the #Coronavirus pandemic

AndrewWhitehead, former #BBC correspondent in Delhi, on how #Coronavirus has affected the media in #Britain, and what young journalists and student journalists can do to firewall their future

KrishnaPrasad, publisher of #Churumuri, on the challenges facing Indian print media in the wake of #Coronavirus