6 highlights
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The word “byline” first appeared about a century ago in Ernest Hemingway’s novel The Sun Also Rises.
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Over time, for idealists among us, the byline came to represent the power of journalism—the courage it provided an ordinary reporter to challenge the high and mighty.
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A reporter’s job today is to find enough material to fill up the pages.
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The national bureaus of most newspapers are overrun with reporters who aim for access instead of journalism.
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But in India, whistle-blowing can land you in jail, probably get you killed, and open you up to ideology-drunk, trigger-happy social-media armies.
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It is now hard to find officials such as those who played a key role in passing on documents about the UPA government’s scandals, and even harder to make them talk.