In this week’s episode, host Snigdha Sharma is joined by Basant Kumar, Ayush Tiwari and Ayan Sharma of Newlaundry. Ayush and Basant discuss their report from the village of Kapil Gujjar, the Shaheen Bagh shooter. Ayan talks about his experience reporting from Jewar, hometown of the juvenile who shot at protesters outside Jamia Millia Islamia University.

The panel also talk about Ayush’s factcheck of the Shaheen Bagh “sting” in collaboration with Jignesh Patel of Alt News.

This and a lot more as they talk about what made news, what didn’t, and what shouldn’t have. Tune in!

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Produced by Parikshit Sanyal, recorded by Anil Kumar, edited by Umrav Singh.

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