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Shekhar Gupta relinquishes charge as Express CEO 27 Aug 2013 | 10:13 am
Below is the full text of the “global” email shot off by Indian Express editor-in-chief Shekhar Gupta on Monday, August 26, in which he formally announces his decision to relinquish his managerial fun...
How journalism helped a cartoonist as author 25 Aug 2013 | 05:48 pm
Author and playwright Manjula Padmanabhan, who created Suki, a female cartoon character for the now-defunct Sunday Observer, has a new book out, Three Virgins and Other Stories. In an interview in Mi...
If the Press Trust of India (PTI) had a newspaper 23 Aug 2013 | 03:38 pm
All manner of media enterprises take flight in the run-up to an election and this, here, is the front page of volume 1, issue 1 of Dynamic Times, “India’s national weekly newspaper” as its tagline aff...
‘Licensing journos: recipe for total state control’ 22 Aug 2013 | 12:59 pm
The following is the full text of the statement issued by N. Ravi, president of the Editors’ Guild of India, on the proposal mooted by minister of state for information and broadcasting, Manish Tewari...
A “licence” for journalists is not a ‘sine qua non’ 21 Aug 2013 | 11:38 am
Information and broadcasting minister Manish Tewari‘s proposal for a “common examination” for journalism students, with a “licence” to practice journalism at the end, gets the full treatment (a pocket...
POLL: Common exam, licences for journalists? 20 Aug 2013 | 03:01 pm
Take Our Poll As if the “idiots” in the media didn’t have enough problems to deal with—paid news, corruption, wage board, 12-minute-per-hour ad caps, cross-media controls, job losses, recession etc—t...
What journalism students ought to become 19 Aug 2013 | 07:27 pm
A piece of advice for journalism students from the former deputy comptroller and auditor general of India, Harprasad Das, as heard by an intrepid reporter of the Orissa-based newspaper, Political and ...
78-year-old man tops MA journalism course 19 Aug 2013 | 03:20 pm
A 78-year-old masters degree holder in mathematics, Sanskrit, Vaishnavism, and a doctorate in Sanskrit, has secured the first rank in MA journalism and communication at Madras University. But can eve...
‘Media irresponsible in Kishtwar coverage’ 18 Aug 2013 | 02:48 pm
The incidents in Kishtwar in Jammu & Kashmir on the eve of Id, the culmination of the holy month of Ramza, leading upto Independence Day, occupied plenty of media attention, as the BJP smelt political...
The 5 stereotypes of journalists in Bollywood 16 Aug 2013 | 12:43 pm
In the 1983 hit comedy, Jaane bhi do yaaro, Naseeruddin Shah and Ravi Vaswani work as freelance photographers for Khabardar, a muckraking magazine edited by “Shobha Sen”, played by Bhakti Barve Inamda...
