Media Ethics | South Asia Media
Defamation, Copyright, and Journalism in India
January 26, 2022
Should news organizations in India sue other sites who use their content to criticize it? Read More
Twitter’s Difficult Choice in India
October 26, 2021
How should Twitter deal with government demands to regulate speech in India? Read More
Accurate and Effective Reporting in a Pandemic
April 5, 2021
What ethical choices await Indian news media covering the pandemic? Read More
Reporting on Caste and Sexual Assault
December 5, 2020
What are the challenges and choices journalists face in reporting caste-based violence in India? Read More
Actors Playing Protestors in Real Life
March 19, 2020
What are the ethics of Bollywood celebrities joining popular protest movements--and the calls to "cancel" their careers? Read More
Changing Comments or Changing Minds?
February 20, 2020
When a Pakistani newspaper uses an algorithm to change user comments to protest government censorship, what could go wrong? Read More
To Release or Not to Release
January 22, 2020
What are the ethics of films that portray political assassinations in India? Read More
Censorship in Pakistan
November 12, 2019
What are the challenges to reporting the news in Pakistan? Read More
Reporting on Sexual Assault in India
November 4, 2019
What are the challenges to privacy and community safety in reporting on sexual assault in India? Read More
Fake News and Real Tensions
October 28, 2019
Throughout the rising tensions following the Pulwama attack in Kashmir, there was a relatively new element of the contemporary Indo-Pakistani conflict: fake news. Read More
Can a Film be Too Moving?
October 23, 2019
How much of an effect can films about candidates have on public opinion during an election in India? Read More