BY Mahesh Vijapurkar| IN OPINION |21/09/2012
A correspondent, however lowly, could call him up at home. Preferably before 9 am.
BY Mahesh Vijapurkar| IN MEDIA PRACTICE |07/02/2011
So angry he was that he wanted curbs on the media because it hyped things. "If you do not show factually correct news, a calamity will befall you," the Indian Express quoted him as having said.
BY Mahesh Vijapurkar| IN MEDIA PRACTICE |05/02/2011
Three newspapers with a national presence have reported differently on the same event, picking what suited their line of thinking.
BY Mahesh Vijapurkar| IN MEDIA PRACTICE |02/02/2011
The DNA has launched a campaign that scoffs at the negative image that the media has portrayed of the country so far and seeks to focus on the positive.
BY Mahesh Vijapurkar| IN MEDIA PRACTICE |02/02/2011
The lead story on Daily News & Analysis (DNA) on February 1, 2011 was the newspaper itself.
BY Mahesh Vijapurkar| IN MEDIA PRACTICE |16/10/2010
An unwitting Star Mhaja camera mike recorded the andar ki baat between senior Congress men discussing fund raising for a Sonia rally.
BY Mahesh Vijapurkar| IN MEDIA PRACTICE |14/10/2010
When Thackeray’s grandson bamboozled the Mumbai University VC into banning a book few newspapers or channels took up the issue.
BY Mahesh Vijapurkar| IN MEDIA PRACTICE |08/10/2010
Every day, the newspaper announces the colour for the next day, and lo and behold, working women gather as they exit their workplaces and remind each other of the next day’s colour.
BY Mahesh Vijapurkar| IN MEDIA PRACTICE |27/05/2010
Can one safely assume that all correspondents who wrote stories were present at the press conference and had not covered it from the live teleast?
BY Mahesh Vijapurkar| IN MEDIA PRACTICE |19/04/2009
Was it a peer support to an offending newspaper because others too have been careless – even reckless – in how they approach a story?
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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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