Journalism through RTI: Information Investigation Impact
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| Rating | : | 4.73 (959 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 9386062836 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 244 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2017-07-07 |
| Language | : | English |
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He has addressed several conferences on RTI and Media at a range of platforms including Columbia University, New York at Rio de Janeiro; European Investigative Journalism Conferences at Brussels; Global Investigative Journalism Conference at Kiev; Asian Investigative Journalism Conference, Kathmandu. Having earlier worked at Jansatta, Amar Ujala, and India Today Shyamlal is presently Senior Editor at The Indian E
Shyamlal Yadav has used India's RTI law very effectively to reveal important new stories, with persistence, thorough research and ingenuity. I am sure those who conceived of this law had someone like Shyamlal in their mind to take this law forward, both to expand and explore its potential and to make the powerful also accountable. Yet, this fine and important book is more than the sum of his own outstanding stories. Learn about RTI--and about our society.--P. He has married information to its rightful bride, the newspaper, and transformed it into an instrument of social change. From high-level corruption to the junkets of ministers whose travel miles added up to 256 times the circumference of the earth, from
How RTI changed the face of investigative journalism in India, forever…The RTI Act has helped investigative journalism in getting information that otherwise would have been almost impossible to unearth despite legal provisions. Using the storyline approach, the author, through his own experiences, unravels how news was collected through persistent efforts using RTI, how the stories evolved, and how the subject was followed up keeping an eye on the rightful impact. Hence the emphasis is less on theory and more on practical aspects, making the book ‘a story behind India’s biggest news stories’.