Breaking the bargain
A nasty review of P.V. Sindhu's performance at the World Badminton Championships by Sandip Sarkar for the Hindustan Times: Take Spain’s Carolina Marin for example. Just two years older than Sindh…
journalism
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False equivalency
Margaret Sullivan in the Washington Post on August 16: “The whole doctrine of objectivity in journalism has become part of the [media’s] problem,” Jay Rosen, a journalism professor at New York Univer…
If Nautilus is so good, why is it doing so bad?
If Nautilus is so good, why is it doing so bad? There's no short answer.…
Hacking newsroom productivity
Developers should consider collaborative tools for journalists that also make remote-working more efficient and less prone to communication gaps.…
Reporters in Delhi should get a wintertime allowance
No amount of fondness or pride for situating themselves in the national capital can save journalism establishments from the steady toll the city is taking on their journalists.…
Corrected: Environmental journalism in India and false balance
If only in Indian environmental journalism, there is no Other Side anymore for sure.…
Talking about science, NCBS
On June 24, I was invited to talk at the NCBS Science Writing Workshop, held every year for 10 days.…
Stenograph the science down
Is it that we're paying no attention to the science and instead reproducing statements line by line because they're made of gold?…
Has 'false balance' become self-evidently wrong?
Have we finally entered a period wherein awareness of the fallacies of AGW-denial has matured enough for false-balance to have become either deliberate or the result of mindlessness?…
Discussing some motivations behind a particle physics FAQ
Particle physics is in the middle of a quandary. Let's use it to catch up on all that we've missed.…
The bad, avoidable and useless forms of journalism
Bad journalism: A Hindustan Times report on March 2 claims a high-schooler from West Bengal won a "prestigious" scholarship sponsored by NASA to study at Oxford University, having been selec…
The downward/laterward style in science writing
As a science writer, I don't like the inverted pyramid but prefer the pyramid: starting with a slowly building trickle of information at the top with the best stuff coming at the bottom.…