The sensational story of the NASA astronaut who attacked the girlfriend of another astronaut in a love triangle was broken by the Orlando Sentinel but the paper’s old-fashioned beat reporters used the power and immediacy of the internet. G V Krishnan recounts a similar scandal broken by the Indian Express in the late 1950s. Read…
Daily Archives: 12 February 2007
What a picture can teach us on ends and means
T.S. SATYAN writes: Vinoba Bhave’s Bhoodan walks had caught the world’s imagination. Way back in 1959, I was assigned by Life magazine to photograph him for a pictorial essay. “Make sure you shoot only in available light and capture the serenity and beauty of the early-dawn march. In lantern light, mind you,” the photo editor…
‘Editors are like bartenders at your bar’
In the welter of doomsday theories on the future of newspapers, and the hype over citizen journalism and user-generated content, Jason Pontin of MIT Technology Review flings a small arrow of hope: “Editors still have a very important function and that role will only increase in importance. They will be like a bartender at your…
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