TRAI set to regulate corporate control of media
Privacy law draft does not cover CCTV footage
29-year-old Indian named editor of The Independent
Facebook reveals requests for user data in response to PRISM scandal
A fresh twist to the paid news concept
Google request to US government
Arrested Agartala editor threatened victim's wife
Two major networks threaten to pullout TAM subscription
Trinamool activists accused of attempting to set a journalist on fire
Watch ICC Champions Trophy 2013 ad-free on Doordarshan
Newspapers see prospects in payments for online content
Faking News is now a part of Firstpost
Hindustan Times celebrates third ‘No TV Day’ on June 1, 2013
Chicago Sun-Times lays off its photography staff
 Can't expect dramatic results with political parties under RTI |
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Why RTI will not turn politics public
Political parties operate in a space starkly different from government-run agencies which can actually help them escape close scrutiny.
MANU MOUDGIL tells us how the new ruling will apply to them. PIX: BJP.org
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Sardesai's take on Modi: fuzzy and dodgy
It's not Modi who is the reason for bias and prejudice; it's the media that is making the ground rules for a confrontationist debate.
VRINDA GOPINATH says it's time for self-styled media moral crusaders to practice what they preach.
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Being clear-eyed about Advani
Why did the press treat him with kid gloves after the Babri Masjid demolition, and has done so since, right till yesterday?
JYOTI PUNWANI on why it is a good thing the Advani era is over.
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The heretic leak and the policy leak
The secrecy with which fiendishly vast surveillance powers are being exercised flies thick in the face of all constitutional and legal principles.
SAURAV DATTA decodes aspects of PRISM. PIX: Screenshot of PRISM slide on The Guardian website.
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Surviving a year in wide web world
The Thumb Print, a portal on Northeastern states, has survived solely on readers' goodwill and the abundance of selfless contributors.
RADHIKA MB writes about the ezine completing a year.
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Snowden needs more media support
There is a need for media to put it across to the administrations around the world that only a country that trusts its citizens and is receptive to constructive criticism can expect loyal and patriotic commitment in return,
says MELWYN PINTO
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Broadcasters versus TAM
Behind the sporadic headlines on this long running fight between broadcasters and TAM, are a bunch of curious contradictions, even ironies,
says SEVANTI NINAN
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Esop's fables
B&S share excerpts from Esop's fables, with their own interpretations, with The Hoot since it covered in detail Forbes (India) sacking its editor and three senior staffers.
AJITH PILLAI says they are a must read for journalists, whistleblowers, employees and HR managers.
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Exits over ESOPs attract attention
The Forbes India departures highlight how vulnerable even senior journalists have become in a media environment that has become increasingly uncertain and volatile.
PARANJOY GUHA THAKURTA on the controversial restructuring at Network 18.
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Thought-provoking weekend fare
Keya Acharya's Sunday cover story in The Hindu throws light on the use of renewable energy, a subject usually neglected by journalists.
JAYANTA MADHAB TAMULY says weekend reading does not have to be about filmy froth.
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Other recent stories |
The media have widely reported the conviction of Babu Bokhariya, a Gujarat minister for illegal mining but played down similar sentence for two others, a former Congress MP, Bharat Odedara, as well as an alleged gangster. Bokhariya is in the headline and the intro but the others are relegated to the end. Is a Congress politician's conviction less newsy?
The Karnataka State Government has dropped all charges against journalist Naveen Soorinje in connection with the Morning Mist home stay attack Recently The Visual Media Journalists Association of Dakshina Kannada district had submitted a memorandum to Chief Minister Siddaramaiah urging him to drop all charges against journalist Naveen Soorinje and TV cameraman Sharan in this case.
MEDIA JOB OF THE WEEK
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