"My WhatsApp Number Has Become A Public Newsroom": NDTV's Ravish At Magsaysay Award

NDTV's Ravish Kumar, who won the prestigious Ramon Magsaysay Award 2019, delivered a speech on "The Power of Citizen's journalism to Advance Democracy", in the Philippines. Ravish Kumar says how people share stories and news from their region with him on his WhatsApp number. "Every day I receive about 500-1,000 messages on WhatsApp, sometimes more. In every second message, people, alongside their problems, also write about what journalism means to them. Mainstream media may well have forgotten what journalism is, but the people remember how it should be defined," he says.