Marginalised Caste Groups News Today

With the release of the new Malayalam film Live, the spotlight is back on the media. It is now worth exploring how the Malayalam film industry has depicted journalists over the years.

Scheduled Castes, Scheduled Tribes, Other Backward Classes are under-represented in media outlets

"None of the mainstream media houses had people belonging to SC/ST categories in leadership roles. Two from SC/ST categories held leadership positions in two alternative media platforms," the report by Oxfam India and 'Newslaundry' says.

The research was conducted between April 2021 and March 2022 and analysed over 20,000 magazine and newspaper articles, 2,075 prime-time debates with 76 anchors and 3,318 panellists and 12 months of online news reports.

Legacy Media Learn a Thing or Two From Social Media Journalism? Caste bias Dalit Desk, or a medium to tell stories from a Dalit’s desk, an online news organisation was started by Sahil Valmiki in 2019 on Instagram and Youtube. “The stories that I am able to tell on my social media platform, cannot be told on a traditional media platform. Traditional media is upper-caste dominated,” said Valimiki. "The selection to ‘upper-caste media’ is caste based. When your CV reaches there, it ge...