There is an uproar in the United States over journalism jobs being outsourced to India. And there is much consternation that the New York Times company, which owns the Boston Globe, may be training some Bangaloreans who could take over the jobs of Americans. “It’s the biggest lie, the biggest secret in the city of…
Daily Archives: 2 March 2007
Let your camera-phone make you a star
UGC is no longer just University Grants Commission. It’s short for User-Generated Content, and it’s all the rage. Television channels and newspapers are using it; websites like Oh My News and Now Public are run on it; news agencies like Reuters and Associated Press are getting into it; and of course, there is orkut and…
AYAZ MEMON on cricket journalism
The World Cup is around the corner, and an event of this size and glitz is enough to make any journalist—aspiring and perspiring—dream of making it it big as a cricket writer. In this sans serif exclusive, acclaimed cricket writer and DNA editor Ayaz Memon, who has covered the game for Sportsweek, The Independent, Mid-Day,…
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