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We @reporters_co handed over the #GujaratDeathRegisters to a team of researchers & doctors at Harvard Univ, Berkeley et al. Our way of producing investigative journalism collaboratively with experts across domains.
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We @reporters_co handed over the #GujaratDeathRegisters to a team of researchers & doctors at Harvard Univ, Berkeley et al. Our way of producing investigative journalism collaboratively with experts across domains.
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Their scientific assessment is now out. Gujarat govt claims only 10,075 people died of #Covid19 since 2020. Harvard's research findings: Death Registers for just one month, April 2021, nail the govt's lies and project the scale of the tragedy.
medrxiv.org/content/10.110… 2/n
medrxiv.org/content/10.110… 2/n
We have put this data on the @WallofGrief website. A memorial to collectively remember those we have lost to the pandemic. A place to tell the truth. A depository curating research, reportage and data by all on pandemic deaths in India. wallofgrief.org
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We have only begun building the Wall with many other contributors and partners. Such as @101reporters lead by @gangadharpb . It is a citizens' journalism project that we will service along with many other partners - media organisations, civil society groups. 4/n
We ask you all to share the memorials of your loved ones at this Wall. We ask you to spread the word and help others do so too if they find it difficult to do so themselves. To do so you can go here: wallofgrief.org/submit-memorial
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If you are a journalist or researcher who has worked on pandemic deaths, we request you to share it with us to curate it on the Wall (with due credit). To do so you can write to us at wallofgrief@reporters-collective.in
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If you want to volunteer or join hands and help us collect data at scale from villages, towns, municipalities, districts or state, again write to us at wallofgrief@reporters-collective.in 7/n
We at @reporters_co began working on the #GujaratDeathRegisters and then on the @WallOfGrief inspired by the large number of journalists, news photographers, researchers, experts and activists, who have collected the first set of evidences of the scale of loss.
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In our investigation, we found the Gujarat govt had lied and understated the pandemic toll by over 27 times. You can read it in multiple languages and watch the video on it now, curated at our website reporters-collective.in/projects/gujar…
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This was the beginning of our work on pandemic deaths. We will continue to report, to collect data, to seek help from all others to collect data, to assist others in reporting, and to curate all the work.
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It does take a whole community of journalists and media organisations to tell truth to power. We build on each others' work and draw from each others' energies. Bylines are a professional whim that hide the entire village which helps a story come together.
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And we know these are not the best of times for good old evidenced-based journalism in India that challenges the powerful. It will require us to collaborate more. We at @reporters_co will do our best to foster such work.
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For the research work and scientific understanding on Pandemic Deaths we are grateful to the researchers @RJANunez, Caroline Buckee, @Satchit_Balsari and Ayesha Mahmud @birajpat as one team and @muradbanaji as a generous expert guide on the other hand.
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More than 2 dozen people have helped us all through these first steps of collecting the data and processing. Most do not want to be named. Or do not want credit. Some strangers, some friends and some volunteers.
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The idea of the Wall of Grief has come about due to ideas, sharing and encouragement by many journalists, concerned citizens, groups, media organisations. They gave us the confidence and the nourishment to start this journey.
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Please join me in thanking our partners who co-published
#GujaratDeathRegisters in many languages.
English @thewire_in
Kannada @prajavani
Assamese @assamtimes_
Bengali @4thpillars
Malayalam @azhimukham
Punjabi @punjabtoday1
Hindi @thewirehindi
Marathi @TheWireMarathi
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#GujaratDeathRegisters in many languages.
English @thewire_in
Kannada @prajavani
Assamese @assamtimes_
Bengali @4thpillars
Malayalam @azhimukham
Punjabi @punjabtoday1
Hindi @thewirehindi
Marathi @TheWireMarathi
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One last drop of your patience. To name my colleagues @reporters_co who lead this project with minimal resources, big hearts and sharp minds?
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Leading @WallofGrief: @journomayank & @tapasya_umm
Reporting & data analysis: @shreegireesh and @tapasya_umm
Editors: @anoophilip and @Kum_Sambhav
Making the project fly with his freshly-minted production skills: @someshjha7
What did I do? Watch them in awe.
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Reporting & data analysis: @shreegireesh and @tapasya_umm
Editors: @anoophilip and @Kum_Sambhav
Making the project fly with his freshly-minted production skills: @someshjha7
What did I do? Watch them in awe.
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