Watch | Media Bol: Deaths, Despair and Increasing Unemployment in the Media

The suicide of a reporter in Delhi who had been hospitalised for COVID-19 highlights the difficulties journalists are facing right now.

A heartbreaking incident has come out from the capital Delhi. A 37-year-old coronavirus-infected journalist has died by suicide, jumping from the third floor of AIIMS.

The journalist has been identified as Tarun Sisodia. Tarun was a reporter in a newspaper in Delhi and was hospitalised for almost two weeks. There are a lot of sackings in the media and an atmosphere of tension prevails among journalists. Senior journalist Urmilesh talks about these matters in detail in this episode of Media Bol.