Nidheesh M K

There’s a lot of punditry being thrown at me for calling out Desi Studios and the way they plagiarised my story on Jayanandan. Don’t gatekeep facts. Don’t be a crybaby. Duniya is changing, why don’t you move on. You get the drift. Here's a 🧵useful to anyone who thinks that story, the one Desi Studios lifted sentence by sentence, wrote itself.

I think we have been so consumed by content creation that many people have stopped seeing what separates it from journalism. Anyone can repeat a fact. A fisherman in Kerala was convicted of a string of murders. Nobody owns that line, you cannot possibly gatekeep it. But a fact is just wet clay. Journalism is the craft of working it into something that holds, the reporting and then the writing, the checking that goes in before it reaches you and the responsibility that stays once the story is out. Here is a crash course in that difference, from my days at Mint.

There’s a lot of punditry being thrown at me for calling out Desi Studios and the way they plagiarised my story on Jayanandan. Don’t gatekeep facts. Don’t be a crybaby. Duniya is changing, why don’t you move on. You get the drift. Here's a 🧵useful to anyone who thinks that story, the one Desi Studios lifted sentence by sentence, wrote itself.

There’s a lot of punditry being thrown at me for calling out Desi Studios and the way they plagiarised my story on Jayanandan. Don’t gatekeep facts. Don’t be a crybaby. Duniya is changing, why don’t you move on. You get the drift. Here's a 🧵useful to anyone who thinks that story, the one Desi Studios lifted sentence by sentence, wrote itself.

There’s a lot of punditry being thrown at me for calling out Desi Studios and the way they plagiarised my story on Jayanandan. Don’t gatekeep facts. Don’t be a crybaby. Duniya is changing, why don’t you move on. You get the drift. Here's a 🧵useful to anyone who thinks that story, the one Desi Studios lifted sentence by sentence, wrote itself.

Even the outside experts had to be real experts. It is a legend in the Mint newsroom that the founder-editor, Sukumar, once fired a reporter for telling an expert, on the phone, something close to "kuch bhi bata do." Just say anything. A fact was only ever as good as the work standing behind it. Here is how that played out on the Jayanandan story.