The article is an overview of the growing concerns about escalating violence against journalists in India and a matching lack of interest in Indian academy to understand the various implications of such violence—both pedagogically and sociologically. The fact that about six journalists were killed in a span of two to three months—September–November 2017—speaks volume about the magnitude of the problem in India—the world’s largest democracy that has the largest volume of media presence. By far, the safety and security of journalists was never part of a serious debate among Indian media houses or Indian journalism education except by way of expressing a symbolic condolence whenever a journalist was killed in action. Although Indian academy has displayed abject ignorance of this important component of journalists’ training despite the UNESCO proposing a model curriculum for safety of journalists at University level in 2007, the media industry which runs its own media schools in India to train its recruits is never concerned about the safety and security of the journalists. Using the methodology adopted by the Freedom House in its report on Freedom of Press (2016) for determining the varied ways in which the pressure was laid on the objective flow of information, the present study throws light on several dimensions involved in evolving a pedagogy for the ‘safety and security of journalists’ from sociological perspectives.

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记者的安全和保障：等待印度学院和工业界的介入

本文概述了人们对印度境内针对记者的暴力升级的担忧，以及对印度学术界同样缺乏兴趣来理解这种暴力的各种影响（包括教学论和社会学方面）。在2017年9月至11月的两到三个月之内，大约有六名记者被杀这一事实，充分说明了印度问题的严重性。印度是世界上最大的民主国家，拥有最多的媒体。到目前为止，记者的安全与保障从来都不是印度媒体机构或印度新闻教育界严肃辩论的一部分，除非在记者被杀害时表示慰问。尽管尽管2007年联合国教科文组织提出了大学水平的新闻工作者安全示范课程，但印度学院对记者培训的这一重要组成部分表现出了无知的无知，但对于在印度开办自己的媒体学校来培训其新兵的媒体行业来说，却从未感到担忧关于记者的安全和保障。使用自由之家在其《新闻自由》（2016）报告中采用的方法来确定对客观信息流施加压力的各种方式，本研究阐明了发展教育学方法涉及的几个方面。从社会学角度讲“记者的安全与保障”。在印度拥有自己的媒体学校以培训新兵的媒体行业从不关心记者的安全。使用自由之家在其《新闻自由》（2016）报告中采用的方法来确定对客观信息流施加压力的各种方式，本研究阐明了发展教育学方法涉及的几个方面。从社会学角度讲“记者的安全与保障”。在印度拥有自己的媒体学校以培训新兵的媒体行业从不关心记者的安全。使用自由之家在其《新闻自由》（2016）报告中采用的方法来确定对客观信息流施加压力的各种方式，本研究阐明了发展教育学方法涉及的几个方面。从社会学角度讲“记者的安全与保障”。