When a city pauses to listen to stories, arguments, memories and ideas, it often begins with a book. This January, Chennai will once again become that listening city as The Hindu Lit For Life returns for its 13th edition, reaffirming its place as one of India’s most thoughtful and intellectually rich literature festivals.

English newsrooms keep asking where the audience went. The answer is simpler than they’d like. It didn’t disappear. It switched languages, platforms, and power centres. While English media debates survival, vernacular creators are building trust, scale, and influence across India’s tier-2 and tier-3 towns. The newsroom didn’t collapse. It was quietly outgrown.

As news organisations enter 2026 - nearly three years after the release of ChatGPT jolted the media industry - journalists and executives are grappling with a question that has become impossible to ignore: what is next for generative AI and journalism?

Police have arrested three people, including the main accused, in connection with the recent assault on two journalists inside Kalipur College, The Statesman reported.

The crime beat is often imagined as a chase for exclusives and breaking news. In reality, it is a daily negotiation with chaos: police stations that never sleep, crime scenes charged with grief and anger, families at their most vulnerable, and hours that stretch without warning. For women journalists, it is also a constant negotiation for space in a field that remains deeply male dominated, where credibility must be earned repeatedly and safety is never taken for granted.

Victorian fires, Aukus takes a dive, free and hate speech, creative hypocrisy, 'councils can go', and not enough evidence for lakeside police museum, plus more in today's dailies. Stories by Eleanor Campbell, Shane Wright, Michael Smith, Matthew Knott, Jessica Wang, Madeleine Bower, Elizabeth Pike, Greg Sheridan, Richard Ferguson and Sarah Ison, Jason Edwards, Damon Johnstone, Mohammed Alfares, John Ferguson and Liam Mendes, Marta Pascual-Juanola, Jason South, Brendan Kearns, Jason Edwards, and Alex White.

Vigor Media Worldwide has secured the media and public relations mandate for Vikram Roller Flour Mills Limited, as the agro-products company looks to strengthen its communication efforts while expanding its presence across regions.

Gozoop Creative has partnered with CookieMan India, the well-known Australian-origin cookie brand, as its digital and creative agency.

You don’t need a journalism degree to report in India. But without one, most newsrooms won’t even look at you. As HR filters tighten and field reporters power stories from the margins, journalism is quietly splitting into two worlds. Degrees open doors. Ground work earns trust. The tension between the two is reshaping who gets to tell India’s stories.

Two journalists were attacked and robbed while returning home from their office late Tuesday night in Ranchi, leaving one of them seriously injured.

For a brief but significant period, a small, trans-led online magazine did what much of the mainstream media in India still struggles to do. It allowed transgender people to report on their own lives.

The Panvel Taluka Journalists Development Forum has elected Rajendra Patil as its new president and announced its executive committee during a function organised to mark Journalists’ Day on January 6.

A felicitation programme was organised at the Mangalwedha Police Station on the occasion of Journalists’ Day and the birth anniversary of Darpankar Acharya Balshastri Jambhekar.

Activists, social and political groups in Raikot have demanded that the Punjab government and Police withdraw an FIR registered against 10 journalists by the Ludhiana cybercrime cell.

A delegation of journalists in Arunachal Pradesh has urged the state government to implement the Working Journalists’ Pension Scheme, which has remained pending since 2020 despite Cabinet approval.