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'''''Free Press''''' was a short-lived but well-attempted and widely circulated, monthly [[magazine]] in [[Malayalam]] language published from [[Dehli]] between 2003 and 2006. At 23, [[Vinod K. Jose]] became one of the youngest editor-in-chiefs of any current affairs registered magazine in India when he started ''Free Press''.<ref name=FPANY>{{cite web|title=Scholarship Winners 2008|work=Foreign Press Association of New York|date=2008|access-date=20 May 2013|url=http://www.nyforeignpress.org/?scholarship=scholarship-winners-2008}}</ref> ''Free Press'' was the first publication to have initiated the concept of [[citizen journalism]] in [[Kerala]].<br />
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''Free Press'' was founded by Vinod Jose, while working as a foreign correspondent in [[South Asia]] for the [[United States]] based [[Pacifica Radio]]. Funding itself on readers' contribution, ''Free Press'' exhibited the idealism of a group of twenty young journalists, who came together to publish an investigative, non-partisan monthly in [[Malayalam]] published from [[Delhi]], targeting the [[Malayalis]] in [[Kerala]] and the Malayali diaspora in other [[States and territories of India|Indian states]] and abroad. ''Free Press'' was a registered magazine with the [[Registrar of Newspapers for India]] (RNI) and sold 55,000 copies every month. Without spending any money on advertisement, ''Free Press'' gained the circulation through word-of-mouth campaign and conducting smaller events in Kerala.<br />
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''Free Press'' investigations included: [[Reliance (disambiguation)|Reliance]] corporation and its contribution to India's black economy,<ref name=NCHRO /> fake-encounter epidemic by [[Delhi Police]], [[Intel]] meddling with the school curriculum in Kerala, industrialists "buying" rivers in Kerala, sex scandal of a [[All-India Muslim League|Muslim League]] minister in Kerala. And the result was quick. Its office was raided.<ref name=FFP>{{cite news|title=For a Free Press|work=The Mean Time |date=20 July 2005 |access-date=1 June 2013|url=http://www.countercurrents.org/nuiman-200705.htm}}</ref> The editor was interrogated.<ref name=Geelani>{{citation|title=Attack on Geelani: editor questioned|date=3 April 2005 |access-date=20 May 2013|url=http://www.hindu.com/2005/04/03/stories/2005040306970800.htm|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20050406040522/http://www.hindu.com/2005/04/03/stories/2005040306970800.htm|url-status=dead|newspaper=[[The Hindu]]|archive-date=6 April 2005}}</ref> Reporters were harassed and the distribution system was destroyed.<ref name=NCHRO /> Printing presses in Delhi were forced to back off.<ref>[http://www.countercurrents.org/hr-nuiman200705.htm For A Free Press]</ref> ''Free Press'' in 2005 was forced out of newsstands.<ref name=NCHRO>{{cite news|work=National Confederation of Human Rights Organizations (NCHRO)|title=Sarai Report on Media Censorship (2006)|date=21 February 2006|access-date=23 May 2013|url=http://www.nchro.org/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=1857:sarai-report-on-media-censorship&catid=12:stateviolations&Itemid=7}}</ref><br />
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In May 2006, Vinod K. Jose, editor-in-chief; V.H. Nishad, literary editor; V.M. Shaijith, principal correspondent declared in a public announcement that the magazine could not sustain itself anymore and declared its closure.<br />
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==External links==<br />
*[http://rni.nic.in/ Registrar of Newspapers in India (Vinod K. Jose's entry for the ''Free Press'']<br />
*[http://www.humanrightskerala.com/index.php?Itemid=19&id=1804&option=com_content&task=view Human Rights Kerala]<br />
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