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Katherine Boo, Washington, D.C.-based author and journalist, Gail Collins, Opinion Columnist for The New York Times, and John Daniszewski, Vice President & Editor-at-Large for Standards for The Associated Press, have been elected as co-chairs of the Pulitzer Prize Board.
The trio succeeds ProPublica Editor-in-Chief Stephen Engelberg and Simon & Schuster Vice President and Executive Editor Mindy Marqués González, who shared the post during 2020-2021.
Katherine Boo is a nonfiction writer who has worked for the Washington CityPaper, the Washington Monthly, the Washington Post, and the New Yorker magazine. She received a Pulitzer Prize for Public Service in 2000 for a Post investigation documenting how the District of Columbia had systematically hidden from public view the wrongful deaths of disabled individuals in its care. A 2012 book, “Behind the Beautiful Forevers,” examined how global inequality, exploitation and corruption stunted the futures of families in a slu
Raised in deprivation, Karunanidhi became a metaphor for modern TN
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Raised in deprivation, Karunanidhi became a metaphor for modern Tamil Nadu
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Independent, internal ombudsmen are the need of the hour
Ever since the Mumbai Police filed a supplementary chargesheet containing about 1,000 pages of WhatsApp messages between Republic TV Editor Arnab Goswami and former Broadcast Audience Research Council CEO Partho Dasgupta, the discussions in the media have been about ethical transgressions, manipulating institutional arrangements to show increased audience reach, and breaching the line meant to protect the autonomy and efficacy of regulating bodies and external research entities. For a news ombudsman, the main issue is that an effective institution of self-regulation for the Indian media does not exist.
Media regulation
There are four bodies in India for media regulation. The first is the Press Council of India, created through an act of Parliament. It is headed by a former Supreme Court judge. Its mandate is to preserve the freedom of the press and to maintain and improve the standards of newspapers and news agencies in Indi