Pulitzer Prize-winning Wall Street Journal reporter and author of The Cure, Geeta Anand, in an interview with Meher Marfatia in Housecalls magazine: Q: Are there are any rules for rookie reporters coming wide-eyed into the field? A: I’d dvise young journalists to write the truth as it is, not like a movie screenplay. Never lie…
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In prosperous Gujarat, everybody can buy media
GIRISH NIKAM writes from New Delhi: Now that the elections are over and done with in Gujarat, one needs to look at the role of the media in that State, its pliant nature and the increasing commercial angle in its reportage. Whether newspapers or TV channels, the Gujarati language media by and large tried to…
‘Problem’s in the newsroom, not the newspaper’
“Mr Magazine” Professor Samir Husni of the University of Mississippi: “A paper (notice that I did not use newspaper) must be that, a paper that offers unique journalism that will have that profound impact on the lives of its readers whether political, culture, financial, or even entertainment and lifestyle. Profound is the key for a…
A lot can happen over coffee. Like a war, maybe.
Coffee and newspapers have a far closer relationship than we can imagine. In the 18th century, people frequented coffee houses primarily to read “the papers”—for free. But, as a new four-volume book, “Eighteenth Century Coffee House Culture“, edited by Markman Ellis says, in 1728, the relationship got a little too tempestuous. The coffee men protested…
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