BY elisa patnaik| IN MEDIA PRACTICE |29/07/2010
The space contest between these dead soldiers and the wedding of the Indian cricket captain, nikah of Sania Mirza and the kiss of Rakhi Sawant is woefully one-sided.
BY elisa patnaik| IN MEDIA PRACTICE |26/09/2008
Orissa TV, owned by a leading BJD politician’s family, repeatedly telecast the explicit sexual content of a porn CD involving a young college girl, who had already committed suicide.
BY elisa patnaik| IN REGIONAL MEDIA |22/05/2008
Begun by a local scribe in November 2007, the service has close to 60,000 subscribers at present, some of whom have also begun to send news leads to the provider.
BY elisa patnaik| IN REGIONAL MEDIA |08/08/2007
Radio Choklate is currently the only regional FM channel in Orissa and has been strongly emphasizing its `local` flavour and fervour.
BY elisa patnaik| IN REGIONAL MEDIA |17/11/2004
Lacking in infrastructure, talent, and sponsorship revenues, a full-fledged, professionally managed, complete Oriya channel is still a distant dream for Oriya television viewers.
BY elisa patnaik| IN REGIONAL MEDIA |26/07/2004
Oriya and English dailies in the State had devoted less than 4% and 2% respectively of their total space to coverage of social issues.
BY elisa patnaik| IN MEDIA PRACTICE |09/06/2004
Women are slowing establishing themselves in journalism in Orissa
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The new term for self censorship is voluntary censorship, as proposed by companies like Netflix and Hotstar. ET reports that streaming video service Amazon Prime is opposing a move by its peers to adopt a voluntary censorship code in anticipation of the Indian government coming up with its own rules. Amazon is resisting because it fears that it may alienate paying subscribers.                   

Clearly, the run to the 2019 elections is on. A journalist received a call from someone saying they were from Aajtak channel and were conducting a survey, asking whom she was going to vote for in 2019. On being told that her vote was secret, the caller assumed she wasn't going to vote for 'Modiji'. The caller, a woman, also didn't identify herself. A month or two earlier the same journalist received a call, this time from a man, asking if she was going to vote for the BSP.                 

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