Paul Harris in The Observer, London: “In future, media wars will not be fought between newspapers, and perhaps not even between newspaper websites. They will be fought between internet brands, blogs, online video sharers, news aggregators, gossip sites and things as yet undreamt of. They will not be fought in one city nor one country,…
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Why the Indian media does not take on Ambanis
Anand Giridharadas has a lengthy profile of Mukesh Ambani, the bossman of Reliance Industries, in Sunday’s New York Times. As usual, there are a couple of paragraphs on the Ambanis’ messy relationship with the media. “Critics say Reliance has been especially effective at managing the press. [Two] former Reliance executives, who requested anonymity for fear…
All the news fit to print, all the booze fit to air?
“NDTV Good Times” is a lifestyle television channel that is the result of a collaboration between India’s leading English language television network NDTV, and India’s leading liquor manufacturer, United Breweries (UB). On the face of it, “NDTV Good Times” may seem like a good idea for M/s Mallya & Roy. For UB, the channel’s name…
Sure, size matters, but does only size matter?
How much smaller can a newspaper sheet get before it becomes a newspaper chit? From 60-inch web presses (the old Wall Street Journal or The Hindu) which generated very wide 15-inch by 22¾ front pages, we have come down to acceptable 54-48 inch web presses which generate 12½ to 13½ inch front pages (New York…
Lelyveld: The war between TV and papers is over
Joseph Lelyveld, the two-time Pulitzer Prize-winning former executive editor of The New York Times, has been visiting India. Lelyveld, who served as the paper’s India correspondent between 1966-69, spoke to staffers of The Indian Express in Delhi as part of the paper’s Idea Exchange programme: # On his return to NYT after the Jayson Blair…
How Murdoch is taking on the New York Times
American media observers went into a tizzy when news emerged that Rupert Murdoch would lay his hands on the Wall Street Journal. So what’s happened to the paper since he gained ownership of it? The Project for Excellence in Journalism has done a survey of the frontpages of the newspaper in three months preceding and…
Neena Gopal to edit Deccan Chronicle, Bangalore
Neena Gopal, the former foreign editor of the Dubai-based Gulf News who was in conversation with Rajiv Gandhi just minutes before he was blown up by a suicide bomber in 1991, is to be the editor of the Deccan Chronicle edition from Bangalore. A DC edition in India’s most crowded newspaper market has been on…
‘Like a pineapple you have to have a 100 eyes’
Dith Pran, who served as interpreter to the New York Times‘ Sydney Schanberg during the Cambodian genocide under Khmer Rouge in the 1970s, has passed away in New Jersey at the age of 65. Dith’s relationship with Schanberg, who won a Pulitzer Prize for his reporting, formed the basis for the Rolland Joffe film The…
Is media having an impact on US prez poll?
The mainstream media—television networks, newspaper groups, radio houses, internet behemoths, sometimes all of them owned by the same corporation—like to believe that they play a vital role in deciding how the country is run. Wisened old political commentators, in India and the United States and everywhere in between, actually think that politicians wake up every…
The scourge of liberalism breathes his last
William F. Buckley Jr, the founder of the National Review “who marshaled polysyllabic exuberance, arched eyebrows and a refined, perspicacious mind to elevate conservatism to the centre of American political discourse”, has passed away at the age of 82, and David Brooks has a warm op-ed piece on his mentor, in the New York Times:…
If our reporters are sloppy, what about theirs?
PRITHVI DATTA CHANDRA SHOBHI writes from Oakland: Each time a foreign correspondent moves to Jorbagh and begins her South Asia Bureau chiefdom, the West rediscovers the essence(s) of India. If caste and Hinduism were the old Orientalist inventions, as time has gone included into that list are some new ones: Bollywood, cricket, Taj Mahal, IT,…
MUST READ: Bill Keller on journalism and beyond
The key difference between Indian and American journalism today is the role the leading brands play in setting benchmarks for compatriots and competitors. In the United States, despite a generally bleak scenario all around, the New York Times sets standards that leaves other media houses in awe and wanting to emulate. In India, on the…
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