India Today will host the Tamil Nadu Round Table in Chennai on February 11, bringing together political leaders and commentators as the state gears up for the 2026 Assembly elections.

The South India Journalists Union (SIJU) has strongly condemned the alleged assault on a journalist in Chennai on February 9, calling it a serious threat to press freedom and democratic values. In a statement issued on February 10, SIJU urged the Tamil Nadu government to take immediate action against those responsible.

The Press Club of India and DIGIPUB News India Foundation have raised serious concerns over what they describe as growing restrictions on press freedom following the temporary blocking of The Wire’s Instagram account and the removal of a satirical cartoon from multiple platforms.

Public broadcaster Prasar Bharati is accelerating its transition towards a digital-first content strategy, with the WAVES OTT platform and a new pay-per-view content acquisition framework emerging as key pillars of its expansion, especially among younger audiences.

A 52-second cartoon was all it took to briefly erase The Wire from Instagram in India. Officials denied issuing a full block, platforms blamed technical errors, and the account returned within hours. The cartoon did not. This piece argues that such “temporary” takedowns are not accidents but part of a new censorship architecture, one that relies on opacity, platform compliance, and deniability rather than outright bans. The block was short. The signal to newsrooms was not.

Over 800 journalists and media workers in Tripura staged a three-hour mass sit-in protest in front of Rabindra Bhavan in Agartala on Monday, demanding action on a 11-point charter of issues from the state government.

Travel trade media platform Karryon is launching a new quarterly travel publication - Luxury Unpacked - which will also feature a short print run.

Kulithalai police have registered cross cases against Srirangam MLA M Palaniyandi, his son Vimalathithan, two quarry workers and two journalists following an altercation at a private quarry in Kulithalai on January 30.

Two international rights organisations, the Human Rights Foundation and FORUM-ASIA, have approached the UN Working Group on Arbitrary Detention seeking the release of Kashmiri journalist Irfan Mehraj, calling his imprisonment illegal.

Refraction Media managing editor Jasmine Fellows has gone back to university to undertake a PHD. The decision, she said, came from annoyance about science publications being closed down.

South Australian publisher HWR Media has launched Teen Spirit, a national quarterly print magazine focused on Australian music targeting 14 to 18-year-olds, following the youth social media ban.

News Corp Australia’s State & Community mastheads, including The Daily Telegraph, Herald Sun, The Courier-Mail and The Advertiser, have introduced a new campaign putting journalists front and centre, and is aimed at showcasing the publisher's "breadth of content and 'commitment to trusted, relevant journalism".

After 13 years in senior leadership roles, including a decade as editor, Lenore Taylor has decided to leave Guardian Australia.

Fallout from Monday's protest, 'disturbing violence, 'Hard Left', 'Fair Cop', 'crime kingpin', and legendary editor leaves, plus more in today's news round-up. Stories (and a cartoon today by David Rowe), by Amanda Meade, Nick McKenzie, Ben Cubby, Matthew Knott, Perry Duffin and Jessica McSweeney, Brendan Kearns, Carly Douglas, James O'Doherty, and Matthew Benns, plus John Hanrahan and Madeleine Bower, Catie McLeod and Nina Bucci, Ben Packham and James Dowling.