{"id":3723,"date":"2016-02-24T15:41:00","date_gmt":"2016-02-24T10:11:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/newspie.in\/en\/?p=3723"},"modified":"2017-09-07T16:14:05","modified_gmt":"2017-09-07T10:44:05","slug":"coverage-jagendra-singhs-death","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newspie.in\/en\/3723-coverage-jagendra-singhs-death\/","title":{"rendered":"“Where were you when…?” Coverage of Jagendra Singh’s Death"},"content":{"rendered":"

On 8 June 2015 a journalist named Jagendra Singh died in Shahjahanpur, Uttar Pradesh, after his body was allegedly set afire<\/a> on 1 June by police personnel. On 10 January 2016, correspondent Malini Subramaniam was paid<\/a> a \"late night\" visit at her home in Bastar, Chattisgarh, by the police there, allegedly to intimidate her because of her reporting on abuses by the security forces in the area.\u00a0Scroll.in<\/em> reported on 19 February 2016 that she left Bastar the previous day in order to avoid further harassment.\u00a0At the same\u00a0time, there was another ongoing news story\u00a0of journalists being assaulted<\/a>\u00a0on 15 February 2016 by some lawyers, in sight of police at Patiala Court House in New Delhi. The journalists\u00a0were there to cover a story about protests by and arrests of Jawaharlal Nehru University students.<\/p>\n

All these stories were reported to varying degrees by many news outlets. However,\u00a0on 16 February members of the Delhi press corps publicly\u00a0marched in protest of the court-house incident. Many prominent journalists, such as Barkha Dutt and Rajdeep Sardesai, tweeted<\/a> about the march. While Singh's death and Subramaniam's exodus also received quite a bit of media coverage, and continue to do so, the protest march drew the ire of many non-journalists. \"Where were you when Jagendra Singh was killed?\" several<\/a> Twitter users<\/a> asked<\/a>.<\/p>\n

I decided to find out. I picked just one platform, Twitter, and searched through all the tweets that mentioned \"jagendra singh\" in 2015. I then\u00a0isolated the tweets\u00a0by that appeared to be by journalists, judging by their Twitter screen name or their description. Since\u00a0this incident brought Singh back into the mentions, I also searched for\u00a0mentions of his name this year. I also searched for mentions of \"malini subramaniam\" this year,\u00a0to see who was tweeting about her.<\/p>\n

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As the table below shows, many journalists did tweet about Jagendra Singh. If a particular journalist did not tweet about Singh, it does not mean they did not cover his death elsewhere, it just wasn't on Twitter. This is also not a complete list. It only shows those who\u00a0published at least 2 tweets about Singh or Subramaniam. There\u00a0were many journalists who only tweeted once, they have been left out of the table. Finally,\u00a0searching on Twitter may not return the complete result set. It is possible that some tweets may have been deleted.\u00a0It also depends on whether Twitter itself returns all the tweets or is filtering the results in some way.<\/p>\n

Interestingly, there is nearly no overlap between those who tweeted about Singh and those who tweeted about Subramaniam. This could be because of the platforms on which Sing and Subramaniam were published.\u00a0Even though both victims wrote about abuse and corruption in their local settings far from Delhi, Singh wrote in Hindi, published his work on Facebook and local newspapers. Subramaniam worked in development and worked on a project for\u00a0the International Committee of the Red Cross. Her writings in English were published by Scroll.in<\/em>. Therefore it stands to reason that journalists may not have been equally exposed to both of them.<\/p>\n

Moreover, when members of the public ask \"Where were you when...\" of the news media in general, or complain<\/a> that Singh did not get enough coverage, it may reflect their own lack of exposure as well. Perhaps those\u00a0who follow Dutt,\u00a0Sardesai and English language publications such as scroll.in\u00a0may not follow many Hindi publications or journalists, and therefore did not see mentions of his death.\u00a0Just for comparison, there were 266 tweets about Singh last year and 83 tweets about Subramaniam so far this year.<\/p>\n\n

\n \n \n\n \n\n \n \n\n\n Screen Name<\/th> Tweets on Jagendra Sing in 2015<\/th> Tweets on Jagendra Singh in 2016<\/th> Tweets on Malini Subramaniam<\/th> Total<\/th> <\/tr>\n<\/thead>\n \n\n \n \n\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n
RohanV<\/td>\n <\/td>\n <\/td>\n 22<\/td>\n 22<\/td>\n <\/tr>\n
karunajohn<\/td>\n 12<\/td>\n <\/td>\n <\/td>\n 12<\/td>\n <\/tr>\n
Rai0907<\/td>\n 11<\/td>\n <\/td>\n <\/td>\n 11<\/td>\n <\/tr>\n
sharmasupriya<\/td>\n <\/td>\n <\/td>\n 10<\/td>\n 10<\/td>\n <\/tr>\n
nandiniramnath<\/td>\n <\/td>\n <\/td>\n 7<\/td>\n 7<\/td>\n <\/tr>\n
rajivtewari<\/td>\n 7<\/td>\n <\/td>\n <\/td>\n 7<\/td>\n <\/tr>\n
geetaseshu<\/td>\n <\/td>\n <\/td>\n 6<\/td>\n 6<\/td>\n <\/tr>\n
dhanyarajendran<\/td>\n 5<\/td>\n <\/td>\n <\/td>\n 5<\/td>\n <\/tr>\n
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