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What is #MeToo Movement in India

Chapter 2
Handbook of Research on Combating Threats to Media Freedom and Journalist Safety
It refers to the social movement wherein the #MeToo hashtag was used on social media by women journalists, media professional, and women from the fields of arts and entertainment, to publicly disclose personal accounts of sexual harassment at workplace by their colleagues, senior journalists and public figures.
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Shooting the Messenger, Slowly, but Surely: A Review of Imminent Threats to Freedom of Media and Journalistic Integrity in India
Prabhjot Sohal (Panjab University, India)
Copyright: © 2020 |Pages: 15
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-7998-1298-2.ch002
Abstract
India ranks 140th among 180 countries worldwide in the World Press Freedom Index (WPFI), according to the 2019 report by Reporters Without Borders (RSF). In 2018, India was 138th in the same index and 136th in 2016. For the media of the world's largest democracy, this is disconcerting. The slide in the country's press freedom ranking is indicative of a complex and hostile social, political, and economic environment pushing at the boundaries of media that is struggling to perform independently as the fourth estate. This chapter takes a critical look at imminent threats to freedom of speech and expression faced by the Indian media in the contemporary situation. The first objective of the chapter is to identify diverse threats to the Indian media, specifically journalism. The second objective is to trace both immediate as well as distal factors that breed hostility towards the media, with a focus on press laws and constitutional provisions in India.
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