He began his career as an ordinary newsreader on the State-controlled All India Radio and Doordarshan television channel. But is this man the unsung hero of Indian media? A real visionary who saw the television explosion before any of his peers and compatriots with decades and centuries of journalism in their blood could? We are…
Daily Archives: 22 May 2007
A short and sweet quiz about Indian newspapers
Question 1: Between 2005 and 2006, how many newspapers were launched in India? Question 2: Exactly how many copies of newspapers are sold daily in India? Question 3: How many Indians can read and write but still do not buy a newspaper? Answers on Editors’ Weblog
‘Criticism should not be a democratic activity’
Circulation, revenue and imagination-challenged newspapers and magazines are turning their publications into playgrounds for readers. Reader generated text, photographs and video, polls, blogs, talkbacks, social networking are all being added and heralded as the possible manna from user-generated heaven. Short of setting her own crossword clues, the reader can do just about anything. All this…
Arundhati Roy on communalism and the media
The Karnataka Komu Sauharda Vedike (Karnataka Forum for Communal Harmony) organised a two-day workshop on “Communalism and the Media” in Mangalore on May 18 and 19, and the the star of the show on the concluding day was the Booker Prize winning author and activist Arundhati Roy. This is the full video of her presentation.…
The slow but sure death of editorial cartoonists
On days when his health doesn’t permit him to draw, The Times of India is only too glad to republish R.K. Laxman from the archives. The redesign of The Hindu saw Keshav being moved out permanently off the front pages into the edit page. Unny appears on page one of the Indian Express in the…
