PRESS RELEASE from Deanna Lee of the Asia Society: The Asia Society is pleased to announce that it is now seeking nominations for the fifth annual Osborn Elliott Prize for Excellence in Journalism on Asia. The $10,000 prize is awarded annually to a writer who has produced the best example of journalism about Asia in…
Daily Archives: 3 March 2007
Can ‘boycott’ be a word in the news lexicon?
Can news organisations decide unilaterally to boycott events and individuals and yet call themselves news organisations? Back in the innocent 1980s, The Hindu decided to ban coverage of horse racing for a while in protest against the fixing that was going on. (The fact that the paper’ then publisher, the recently deceased S. Rangarajan, had…
BBC South Asia mobile photo competition
The BBC is running a mobile photo contest, arguably South Asia’s first. The theme is “My Changing World”. There are three prizes: an iPod video, a digital camera, and a Worldspace receiver. The last date is March 31, 2007. Further details on: South Asia photo competition Picture courtesy: BBC
The beauty of this internet revolution
The great thing about the blog revolution is that it allows the consumer to peek into the mind of the provider, to participate in, and add, delete or change what the provider might dish up to the consumer in the end, in a manner in which traditional media would not allow or even scorn at.…
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