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Three stabbed to death in Agartala newspaper office
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HC notice on Swamy's plea that editors must be Indian citizens
I&B Ministry has done little to curb paid news: parliamentary panel
Trinamool Congress seizes control of two newspapers owned by Saradha
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B'casters to pull out ads based on gross amount ROs from agencies
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Reliance's pre-emptive legal notices
Can legal notices be deployed to prevent a publication from coming out with an article?
PARANJOY GUHA THAKURTA reports how a law firm served notices on the editor of Caravan magazine even as it was working on a cover story on the attorney general. Pix: The notice sent.
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Andhra FB case underscores 66A misuse
Under Section 66A of the IT Act, critical comments on cyberspace are inviting penal action, even arrest.
MADABHUSHI SRIDHAR says this gives police draconian powers that violate freedom of speech. PIX: Change.org
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Dutt: Celebrity or criminal?
Fawning media coverage of actor Sanjay Dutt's conviction gave the sense of a man wronged.
Such news treatment dilutes the severity of his crime, says ARCHANA VENKAT
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Demolitions and the English press
Slum demolitions don't attract press coverage; building demolitions do. Because buildings, not slums, are where people like us live.
Where does this empathy go when slums are being demolished, asks JYOTI PUNWANI Pix: Medha fasts
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A tough boss for broadcasters
All it takes for regulation to take hold in a wayward sector, is a new dispensation not inclined to look the other way.
Rahul Khullar thinks the media has gone unregulated for too long, says SEVANTI NINAN. PIX: TRAI chairman Rahul Khullar
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Brainstorming over paid news
A Parliamentary panel has pronounced that media's self-regulation is not working.
AJITH PILLAI imagines marketing brains in media houses could be ganging up to beat any threat to paid news.
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Indirect victory against paid news
The disqualified MLA challenged the constitutional validity of section 10A of the Representation of People's Act 1951 which the EC used against her.
The Allahabad High Court has upheld the validity of the RP Act to disqualify Umlesh Yadav says MADABHUSHI SRIDHAR. PIX: The Allahabad High Court
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In memoriam: Jai's untold stories
Jai Chandiram who passed away this morning after battling cancer, was one of the pioneers of television in India. She also trained many of today's professionals.
THE HOOT is reproducing a piece on television's early years which she wrote for the Hoot in 2009
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What role did media play in poll result?
Asked about the reason for the JD (S) defeat in Karnataka, HD Kumaraswamy angrily blamed the media.
MELWYN PINTO says TV channels played a crucial part in dethroning the BJP in the state, even if they did not particularly promote the Congress. PIX: Janata Dal (S) President H D Kumaraswamy
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Blow by blow poll-time blockbuster
Media pulled out all the stops to cover the Karnataka Assembly elections, the first state poll in 2013.
TV channels predicting and analysing the results were entertaining too, says NUPUR BASU. PIX: Karnataka CM designate K Siddaramaiah.
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A reader writes, "TV pe breaking news haaye re mera ghagra haaye," sings Madhuri Dixit (that's the latest item song). How aptly it captures the state of television news today, doesn't it?
Three staffers of a newspaper in Tripura, Dainik Ganadoot, were killed on Sunday after armed men attacked the paper's office. According to police, the motorcycle-borne assailants barged into the office at the Palace Compound at about 3 pm and stabbed a proof reader and a driver on the ground floor before proceeding to the first floor where they stabbed the office manager. As it was Sunday afternoon, only a reporter was present at the office. He fainted on seeing the assailants stabbing the two men on the ground floor and was left unharmed. (CNN IBN, PTI)
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