Bangalore is building the “Uber of Journalism” to take passengers to destinations spurned by mainstream media vehicle drivers

1 January 2019

Bangalore’s oldest English newspaper Deccan Herald has a special supplement on New Year’s Day ’19, of 19 “change makers”—either a Kannadiga, or someone who embodies the spirit of Karnataka—who are paving the way for a better tomorrow. One of them is Gangadhar Patil, 33, the founder of 101Reporters, which the paper hails as the “Uber…

How to pass IAS: read newspapers & magazines

17 May 2013

It is not often these days that news consumers have something good to say about newspapers. And magazines. And TV stations. And blogs. And websites. Individual and institutional transgressions—paid news, private treaties, medianet, Radia tapes, shrieking anchors, sensationalism, jingoism, corruption, etc—have all contributed enormously to the cynicism of the media among the consuming classes. How…

PTI reporter has a kiss with death at Delhi HC

7 September 2011

A Press Trust of India (PTI) reporter had a narrow escape when the deadly bomb went off outside gate number 5 of Delhi high court today, shortly after he had picked up his entry pass. The news agency’s legal reporter Upmanyu Trivedi had collected his pass from the reception counter and was moving towards the…