The following is the full text of the speech delivered by the President of India, Pranab Mukherjee, at the inauguration of the platinum jubilee celebrations of the Indian Newspaper Society (INS) in New Delhi on Thursday, 27 February 2014: *** By PRANAB MUKHERJEE “Seventy-five years ago, the world was a very different place. Our country…
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BCCI’s 8-point list of media don’ts for IPL
Giving the kind of brand equity cricket commands, the Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) has been majestically proactive in protecting its rights (and the rights of rights holders) over the game. Result: representatives of Cricinfo, which is now owned by ESPN, cannot file from the press box and have to watch the…
An Aroon Purie tribute worthy of emulation
Farewell speeches and circulars in Indian media houses—where good HR practises are somewhere between 18th and 19th century—are usually grim, graceless, god-awful affairs. The moment the exit sign lights up over an employee’s head, the good times are over: bosses suddenly bare their fangs, colleagues start hissing amongst themselves, and management chamchas slither around suspiciously.…
Daily exercise improves newspaper circulation
Indian publications are full of facts; the fiction is in their circulation figures. Cooked up with great expertise, garnished liberally with an extra zero, certified by audit agencies which will consume any shit, and then lovingly dished out to agencies and advertisers, the number of actual copies sold is a joke. Especially with complimentary copies,…
‘Vijaya Next’ gives ToI Crest a Kannada avatar
PALINI R. SWAMY writes from Bangalore: The Times of India group has unveiled its latest product in Bangalore: Vijaya Next, a broadsheet, all-colour, Kannada weekly for the “upwardly mobile Kannadiga population“. The 24-page Friday offering, priced at Rs 6, is a customised version of the Crest edition of The Times of India, complete with shades…
It’s all happening in the newsmagazine space
The latest advertising campaign of the newsweekly The Week targetting Outlook*. The Cochin-based Week is a member of the Audit Bureau of Circulations (ABC), while the Delhi-based Outlook along with market leader India Today are not. So The Week used figures filed by Outlook before the registrar of newspapers (RNI) for the ammunition for the…
It happened this Sunday night in Chicago
ABC News’ Ravi Baichwal was reading the news shortly after 10pm in Chicago on Sunday when…
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