The makers of a film on the tsunami are looking for a freelance documentary film script writer. The producer is Shampa Ghosh (who acted as the main female protagonist in Gautam Ghosh‘s 1987 film Antarjali Yatra) who freelances for Doordarshan. She will provide the story line and the tentative length to the writer. Budget considerations…
Daily Archives: 8 March 2007
Print-first? Web-first? Or separate but equal?
A tectonic shift is taking place in the western newspaper world. The internet is being seen as the place where to put the hard news as it comes in through the day; this will enable print to match television in what it does best. The next morning’s paper is being seen as the place where…
‘Editors are only as good as their papers’
Vinod Mehta pays a very fine tribute to Sham Lal in the latest issue of Outlook, the death of the former Times of India editor providing occasion to look at how the role of editors has changed between then and now. “What is the difference between the editor of the 1970s and 2007? Simple yet…
France’s war against citizen journalism
A new French law that threatens those who tape and broadcast videos of “scenes of violence” with up to five years in prison if they cannot prove they are professional journalists has got citizen journalists up in arms. Ridiculous and ludicrous, says one. French lawmakers have well and truly lost their grip on reality, says…
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