Below is the abridged text of a message sent by Justice P.B. Sawant, former chairman of the Press Council of India (PCI), to a seminar on the state of the media held by the Editors Guild of India in New Delhi on November 2, to mark the 100th birth anniversary of Nikhil Chakravartty, former editor…
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‘Indian media eclipses America’s and Europe’s’
It is one thing to scoop the cables of American diplomats obtained by WikiLeaks, and it is quite another to project WikiLeaks’ maverick founder, Julian Assange, not merely as the facilitator of the cable-leaks but as the fount of all wisdom contained in them. But The Hindu has managed to do both inside 30 days.…
Finally, a redesign not done by Mario Garcia
With competition in the air, Deccan Herald, Bangalore’s oldest English newspaper and one of India’s few single-city newspapers, has undergone a complete design overhaul. On the left is DH of Friday, 6 March 2009; on the right is Saturday’s redesigned paper. The man behind the redesign is Palmer Watson, the head of an international design…
‘Even a newspaper of record is mortal’
For the first time in 64 years, Le Monde has not appeared this afternoon, as staff at the French paper of record protest the move to axe 130 jobs—two-thirds of them in editorial, one-third in administration. In 1995, the paper produced a 40-page edition with 220 staff, today, it brings out a 30-page edition with…
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