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• Journalists expose more of themselves than they realise

  By Madhu Trehan| Newslaundry Verified Please read the Secret Olympic Diaries. Reading it four years ago, I laughed at the brilliance of it. I read it again four years later. What does it tell me today? That not only is there an inherent impossibility of objectivity in journalism, subjectivity is its backbone. A writer lays himself bare and exposes his/her “self” every time she writes, even though she is not writing about herself.

  By Madhu Trehan · Newslaundry

  Feb. 12, 2025

• Review: The Money Trap by Alok Sama

  By Madhu Trehan| Hindustan Times Verified I need you pay me $200,000 as retainer. Within four weeks, I give evidence who is behind this. As success fee, you must pay me $ 1 million.” “How did you get these photos? Did you take them?” I ask. “You pay me and I get answers,” he responds. “But you need know some things I do illegal in many places. So you cannot use what I give in court of law.” “I can’t be involved with anything illegal.

  By Madhu Trehan · Hindustan Times

  Oct. 17, 2024

• Journalists expose more of themselves than they realise

  By Madhu Trehan| Newslaundry Verified Please read the Secret Olympic Diaries. Reading it four years ago, I laughed at the brilliance of it. I read it again four years later. What does it tell me today? That not only is there an inherent impossibility of objectivity in journalism, subjectivity is its backbone. A writer lays himself bare and exposes his/her “self” every time she writes, even though she is not writing about herself.

  By Madhu Trehan · Newslaundry

  Feb. 12, 2025

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