An Exposé by Students Highlights Failings of Mainstream Journalism in India

One of the biggest and most wide-ranging recent news scoops in India, exposing alleged government misdeeds in the awarding of educational software contracts, was broken on social media by students with no journalism training. On May 22, three teenagers — Nisarg Adhikari, Vedant Srivastava, and Sarthak Sidhant, all in their final year of schooling — scooped education reporters across India by…