South Asia Media
Media and Ethics in India, Pakistan, and other countries of the South Asian Subcontinent
Defamation, Copyright, and Journalism in India
January 26, 2022
Should news organizations in India sue other sites who use their content to criticize it?...
Twitter’s Difficult Choice in India
October 26, 2021
How should Twitter deal with government demands to regulate speech in India?...
Accurate and Effective Reporting in a Pandemic
April 5, 2021
What ethical choices await Indian news media covering the pandemic?...
Reporting on Caste and Sexual Assault
December 5, 2020
What are the challenges and choices journalists face in reporting caste-based violence in India?...
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?...
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?...
To Release or Not to Release
January 22, 2020
What are the ethics of films that portray political assassinations in India?...
Censorship in Pakistan
November 12, 2019
What are the challenges to reporting the news in Pakistan?...
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?...
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....
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?...