The newspaper is 80 years old. Its editor-in-chief is 76. There are six employees, and the chief reporter is a Hindu. Together, they bring out The Musalman, the Urdu daily newspaper from Triplicane in Madras, probably the last handwritten newspaper in the world. But its future is uncertain because the paper is handcrafted by four…
Daily Archives: 7 July 2007
Nostalgia is no longer what it used to be, baby
The number of journalists who pine about the magic of working on typewriters and crib about how laptops aren’t a patch on the old babies is not funny. So writer Mary Robinette Kowal decided to solve their headache once and for all by modifying her laptop keys to reseumble a typewriter’s. Read how she did…
‘Green journalism is the new yellow journalism’
Writing about the environment is the new in-thing among young journalists and wannabes. Caring for the planet, cutting carbon emissions, protecting trees, etc, may show that their heart is in the right place, but Jack Shafer argues that there is a hint of haranguing, pontificating, and sermonising in its practitioners that is slightly troubling. “Often…
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