Ajay Singh
Associate Editor
ABOUT
Ajay is a Los Angeles-based journalist, writer, editor and newsroom manager with extensive experience in print, video and online news and features. Ajay previously worked as a staff correspondent for Asiaweek magazine in Hong Kong and in the New Delhi bureaus of The Associated Press and The Wall Street Journal Asia. He is also a published author.
LATEST STORIES
MENTAL HEALTH
The Shock Treatment That Won’t Die—Psychiatrists Want to Electrocute Your Kids
Psychiatrists push for electroshock on children—even as global bodies condemn it, courts rebuke it and victims recount the brain damage it leaves behind.
CHURCHES
Where Canals Flow, So Does Freedom
A historic city of art, resilience and radical thought finds new momentum in its Scientology hub, now featured in the travelogue series Destination: Scientology.
MENTAL HEALTH
How “Mental Health Care” Became Ground Zero for Medicaid Fraud
A Minnesota addiction provider’s $18.5 million Medicaid settlement is just the latest in a national epidemic of fake treatment, kickbacks and billing dead patients.
VIOLATIONS
San Francisco Standard Shamelessly Abandons Ethics to Serve Bigotry and Clicks
How a reporter’s reliance on a discredited hate blogger cast a shadow over a story—and a website—masquerading as journalism.
DRUGS
Hugo Carvajal Pleads Guilty to Plot to Flood US With Cocaine, Ending International Manhunt
The former Venezuelan spymaster admits guilt in Manhattan court to trafficking cocaine with Colombian rebels and conspiring to use drugs as a weapon against the US.
SCIENTOLOGY TV
New Documentary Showcase Film Asks: When Nature Clashes With Tradition, Who Yields?
A new film featured on Scientology Network dives into the fear, fury and clashing world views gripping a seaside community as great white sharks return in record numbers.
MENTAL HEALTH
The Death of Alice Figueiredo—How a Conviction Exposed the Psychiatric System Built to Forget Her
As a jury convicts the guilty over a young woman’s preventable death, the deeper scandal is now impossible to deny: Psychiatric “care” in Britain isn’t failing—it’s functioning exactly as designed.
HUMAN RIGHTS
50 States of Disclosure: A State-by-State Road Trip Celebrating FOIA’s July 4 Anniversary
Nearly six decades on, FOIA remains a cornerstone of democracy—and despite delays, loopholes and denials in state laws, the fight for transparency endures.
TRENDS
Reuters Report Exposes Collapse of Faith in Journalism
A new global report finds audiences fleeing traditional news, driven by disillusionment not disinterest. The industry’s survival now hinges on reform.
DRUGS
Sacklers Hope to Pay $7 Billion to Bury Their Opioid Legacy
Purdue prepares to pay up, leaving unanswered questions about justice, accountability and how hundreds of thousands of lives might have been saved if regulators had acted sooner.
