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Title:
IMPACT OF THE COVID-19 PANDEMIC ON INDIAN PHOTOJOURNALIST

Authors:
Dr Pradeep Tewari

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Dr Pradeep Tewari
Principal Photojournalist, The Tribune, India

MLA 8
Tewari, Dr Pradeep. "IMPACT OF THE COVID-19 PANDEMIC ON INDIAN PHOTOJOURNALIST." Int. j. of Social Science and Economic Research, vol. 5, no. 12, Dec. 2020, pp. 4002-4016, doi.org/10.46609/IJSSER.2020.v05i12.021. Accessed Dec. 2020.
APA 6
Tewari, D. (2020, December). IMPACT OF THE COVID-19 PANDEMIC ON INDIAN PHOTOJOURNALIST. Int. j. of Social Science and Economic Research, 5(12), 4002-4016. Retrieved from https://doi.org/10.46609/IJSSER.2020.v05i12.021
Chicago
Tewari, Dr Pradeep. "IMPACT OF THE COVID-19 PANDEMIC ON INDIAN PHOTOJOURNALIST." Int. j. of Social Science and Economic Research 5, no. 12 (December 2020), 4002-4016. Accessed December, 2020. https://doi.org/10.46609/IJSSER.2020.v05i12.021.

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Abstract:
This research shows that COVID-19 pandemic had a significant impact on India's Photojournalists. 71% of photojournalists are worried about their future due to the current economic situation of the newspaper in India. 52.7% photojournalists say their organisation has started the cut in salary. 59.1% of photojournalists started getting afraid of COVID 19 during covering the COVID related assignments. 49.5% photojournalists say their reporting staff didn’t go out for the coverage of COVID 19, while 38.7% photojournalists say sometimes reporters also accompany them for COVID 19 coverage.Most of the photojournalists 54.8% say that their organization did not give them any safety gadgets to cover COVID 19 pandemic. 51.6% photojournalists are going to the office occasionally, while 21.5% admit that their organisation has allowed work from home and 26.9% say they are not allowed to work from home.

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