The Australian Financial Review’s Edmund Tadros and Hannah Wootton have been crowned ‘Journalists of the Year’ at the 2026 Kennedy Foundation Awards, held on Friday evening at Royal Randwick in Sydney.

The journalist community across Assam, Tamil Nadu, Karnataka, and Kerala is mourning the deaths of four senior journalists, with press clubs and associations paying tribute to their contributions.

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Journalist Abhishek Upadhyay has approached the Supreme Court seeking to quash a Ghaziabad FIR linked to an alleged road-rage incident, calling the case fabricated and asking that a central agency, not the UP Police, investigate, citing fears of arrest.

The Journalists’ Union of Sikkim (JUS) has opened a 24-hour public reading centre in Gangtok in an effort to keep newspapers accessible as more readers shift towards digital news.

In today's IN PR, one Indian agency makes its way down under while another advertises for a new role.

Eeshwari Jedhe has joined Daily City News (DCN) as Senior Journalist. She previously worked as a Sub-Editor and Business Writer at Corporate Citizen Business Magazine.

World Photography Day, observed annually on August 19, was marked across India with exhibitions, competitions and events recognising photographers and photojournalists.

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India's vernacular news market is projected to more than double to $3.1 billion by 2031, but journalism schools are moving the other way. IIMC has discontinued its Urdu and Hindi-medium courses, as students chase English-medium degrees and a shrinking job market makes language of instruction a secondary concern.

The Press Information Bureau (PIB), Dehradun, under the Ministry of Information and Broadcasting, will organise a one‑day regional media workshop, Vartalaap, in Gopeshwar, Chamoli district, on August 20.

On August 18, journalists in Bageshwar paid tribute to the 18 children who lost their lives in the Sumgarh school tragedy, marking the 16th anniversary of the incident.

The 34th Indian Printers Summit, organised by WAN-IFRA, will bring together around 300 professionals from the newspaper publishing, printing, advertising and distribution sectors in Pune on September 9 and 10.

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PM CARES had a corpus of 8,452 crore but utilised just 87.5 lakh in 2024-25, a rate of 0.01%, according to delayed audited statements. In Delhi, roughly 47.6 lakh voters could be left out of the draft electoral roll after failing to submit SIR forms by the deadline. The NTA has removed 600 subject experts and introduced a four-tier question-paper checking system after repeated exam controversies.