BY Nava Thakuria| IN REGIONAL MEDIA |08/10/2011
Two recent IRS quarterly surveys have shown that readership of newspapers is declining in Assam.
BY Nava Thakuria| IN MEDIA PRACTICE |04/10/2008
How did the media report deaths in the Agartala bomb blasts when nobody died,
BY Nava Thakuria| IN MEDIA PRACTICE |28/06/2008
Speakers in the meeting were unanimous in asserting that Mukul could never be the only or the last tainted reporter, working in Assam for various media
BY Nava Thakuria| IN MEDIA PRACTICE |11/02/2008
The IANS reporter in Guwahati was silent on the demand for a CBI enquiry by the NGO.
BY Nava Thakuria| IN MEDIA PRACTICE |02/12/2007
A section of media projected the incident simply as an unprovoked attack on the Adivasi demonstrators by the residents of Guwahati.
BY Nava Thakuria| IN REGIONAL MEDIA |03/02/2007
Reacting to the threat NE Television declared that they would stand by their news.
BY Nava Thakuria| IN REGIONAL MEDIA |29/01/2007
Despite boycott calls by insurgent groups and their invective against mediapersons, Republic Day is celebrated…
BY Nava Thakuria| IN MEDIA PRACTICE |13/03/2006
Check out Asian Tribune`s coverage of the Indian Northeast. Almost every story can be traced to one already published somewhere.
BY Nava Thakuria| IN MEDIA PRACTICE |04/09/2005
The Information Minister even appealed to Myanmarese journalists to launch a counter-offensive against the media offensive of internal and external "terrorist destructive elements."
BY Nava Thakuria| IN MEDIA PRACTICE |19/08/2005
After 1998, this is the first time journalists that celebrated Independence Day in the Guwahati Press Club complex.
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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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