"Press, news channels need internal news ombudsman"
14 years, 3 months ago

"Press, news channels need internal news ombudsman"

The Hindu  

N. Ram, Editor-in-Chief of The Hindu, on Tuesday emphasised the need for an internal news ombudsman in the press and the news channels in the country. Mr. Ram said the 2G spectrum allocation scam and the Niira Radia tapes had widely compromised the independence and credibility of the media. “The paid news problem has shown that it is very difficult to police the media,” he said. “It is important to have institutional safeguards to protect the fairness and independence of investigation.” He lamented the lack of police reforms and called for a sustained media effort aimed at this. There is not much discussion in the media about this.” WikiLeaks lauded Praising the digital media as “a promise waiting to be delivered,” Mr. Ram said WikiLeaks and the disclosure of the Radia tapes proved how digital media was making a mark.

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Corporate-driven media trying to create anti-Left narrative, says Kerala CM Pinarayi Vijayan
1 day, 11 hours ago

Corporate-driven media trying to create anti-Left narrative, says Kerala CM Pinarayi Vijayan

The Hindu  

Kerala Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan on Friday said that some of the corporate-driven media institutions were trying to create “an anti-Left narrative” in the State by covering up the facts and circulating misinterpreted content, which would “gradually emerge as a threat to the secular nature of the country.” Opening the newly constructed office building of Deshabhimani newspaper in Kozhikode, Mr. …

Coordinated spread of false information poses a threat to the press: N. Ram
1 month, 1 week ago

Coordinated spread of false information poses a threat to the press: N. Ram

The Hindu  

Deliberate and often coordinated spread of false information, frequently amplified on social media, poses a significant threat to the press, N. Ram, Director, The The Hindu Group Publishing Private Limited, said here on Saturday. But disinformation is deliberate, it’s motivated and scaled up on social media platforms,” he said, pointing out that the challenge lies in discerning between these two, …

What’s Ailing Foreign Media in India?
11 months ago

What’s Ailing Foreign Media in India?

News 18  

Why is it that global media operating in Bharat is acerbic? Most foreign media companies’ editorial policies may have been driven or influenced by their Indian partners. In this backdrop, a couple of foreign media professionals leaving Bharat due to circumstances ‘beyond normal’ have kicked up a debate in the community. Beginning with the BBC tax surveys, foreign journalists’ exit …

Indian media strong enough to set narrative across world: Anurag Thakur
1 year, 11 months ago

Indian media strong enough to set narrative across world: Anurag Thakur

The Hindu  

Union Information and Broadcasting Minister Anurag Thakur has said the Indian media is strong enough and has the capability to set a narrative across the world. Some foreign media houses carried "false" reports about India during the COVID-19 pandemic, and this agenda of spoiling the country's image was not only being run from outside the country, but many Indian leaders …

Big money is choking India’s free press — and its democracy
2 years, 2 months ago

Big money is choking India’s free press — and its democracy

Al Jazeera  

When popular Indian television journalist Ravish Kumar announced his resignation from New Delhi Television Ltd — the country’s oldest private broadcaster — at the end of November, it was a grim reminder of the vanishing independent news media landscape in the world’s largest democracy. Canary in the Indian media mine India’s economic boom since the 1990s has spawned a fast-growing …

A new low for media freedom in India: N. Ram on The Wire controversy
2 years, 4 months ago

A new low for media freedom in India: N. Ram on The Wire controversy

The Hindu  

Published : Nov 14, 2022 11:02 IST The military-style “search and seize” raid conducted on October 31, 2022 by the Crime Branch of the Delhi police at the offices of The Wire and the homes of its three founding editors, Siddharth Varadarajan, M.K.Venu, and Sidharth Bhatia, deputy editor Jahnavi Sen, and product-and-business head Mithun Kidambi marks a new low for …

Media in Kerala not highlighting national issues, says Rajesh
2 years, 5 months ago

Media in Kerala not highlighting national issues, says Rajesh

The Hindu  

The media in Kerala, including major newspapers and news channels, is not highlighting important national issues but is going overboard on regional developments, Minister for Local Self-Governments and Excise M.B. When fact-checking website Alt News’ co-founder Mohammed Zubair was arrested and taken from one place to another in connection with various cases, the media in Kerala was gung-ho about a …

Media sellout: List of TV news anchors toeing the government's line grows
2 years, 10 months ago

Media sellout: List of TV news anchors toeing the government's line grows

The Hindu  

AS THE BULLDOZER BROKE THROUGH THE tin shed of a fruit cart at Delhi’s Jahangirpuri, and there were visuals of a mobile repair shop outside a mosque collapsing like a pack of cards, the television anchor was beside herself with joy, terming it as “historic action against illegal encroachment”. Asked by Anjana Om Kashyap on Aaj Tak to respond to …

Media has key role to play in vibrant democracy of India: I&B Minister on National Press Day
3 years, 4 months ago

Media has key role to play in vibrant democracy of India: I&B Minister on National Press Day

The Hindu  

Media is a watchdog and has a key role to play in the vibrant democracy of India, Union Information and Broadcasting Minister Anurag Thakur said on November 16. In his audio-visual message on the occasion of National Press Day, Mr. Thakur called on the media to curb the menace of fake news. “National Press Day is a day to reflect …

Content tracking: The Hindu Editorial on government regulation of online news, OTT services
4 years, 4 months ago

Content tracking: The Hindu Editorial on government regulation of online news, OTT services

The Hindu  

The recent decision of the government to bring video streaming services and online news under the ambit of the Ministry of Information and Broadcasting was much anticipated, though with some trepidation. Recently, when the Supreme Court asked for its suggestions toward improving the existing self-regulatory mechanism for television media, in a case involving Sudarshan News, the government stated that regulating …

Can Tamil media weather a Hindutva onslaught?
4 years, 8 months ago

Can Tamil media weather a Hindutva onslaught?

Deccan Chronicle  

Beyond the coronavirus induced retrenchments and salary cuts, Tamil journalism faces a challenge from India’s right wingers. The common grouse is understandable given the fact that upper caste people, particularly Brahmins, dominate every walk of life, including mainstream print media, in Tamil Nadu. Unfortunately, the Brahmins, who identify every emerging field and storm in as pioneers, had lost out on …

Q&A: Senior Indian journalist Hartosh Singh Bal
4 years, 10 months ago

Q&A: Senior Indian journalist Hartosh Singh Bal

Al Jazeera  

Al Jazeera speaks to Hartosh Singh Bal, political editor of Caravan magazine, on the state of media and democracy. New Delhi, India – India’s Hindu nationalist government has been criticised for silencing dissent and undermining independent media, with critical journalists branded “anti-nationals” or charged under “anti-terror” laws. Before an abrupt decision to announce a coronavirus lockdown on March 24, Modi …

Mahatma Gandhi 150th birth anniversary: What would Gandhi say about the Indian media?
5 years, 5 months ago

Mahatma Gandhi 150th birth anniversary: What would Gandhi say about the Indian media?

The Hindu  

As we celebrate Mahatma Gandhi’s 150th birth anniversary, a thought experiment that could yield provocative insights would be to explore what Gandhi would say about different aspects of modern India. Since Gandhi was a journalist before he became a political revolutionary, I will conjecture how he would have responded to the state of the Indian media today. He wrote: “I …

Democratization of Information: The age of alternate media
6 years, 7 months ago

Democratization of Information: The age of alternate media

Op India  

To understand the current Indian media scenario, one has to look back to the time when it all started. This was a matter of great debate since the broadcasting format takes away the required temper and approach of news and replaces it with haphazardly put together commercialized packages. The initial online news dissemination was aimed at creating an alternative to …

After FirstPost, the Hindu goofs up: What it tells us about mainstream media
6 years, 7 months ago

After FirstPost, the Hindu goofs up: What it tells us about mainstream media

Op India  

Merely days ago, a media outlet mocked a private citizen who was threatened and bullied into apologizing to NDTV’s Srinivasan Jain. One other obvious conclusion people seem to miss is that as the ‘Fourth Pillar of Democracy’, the Media, like the other three pillars of Democracy enjoys political power and are key players in the ‘Game of Thrones’. Propaganda is …

Foreign Media Calls Out Indian Media’s Silence on Cobrapost Sting
6 years, 9 months ago

Foreign Media Calls Out Indian Media’s Silence on Cobrapost Sting

The Quint  

The ignominy of Indian mainstream media’s deafening silence around the Cobrapost sting ‘Operation 136’, which sought to expose the alleged underbelly of India’s biggest media outlets, has caught the eye of many international media houses. Though the operation and its claims have been refuted by the media firms who have allegedly been exposed, what has raised eyebrows is the Indian …

Media made to order
8 years, 7 months ago

Media made to order

The Hindu  

THE emergence and evolution of the press has historically been closely aligned to the rise and development of capitalism. Its public interest concern, redolent of its public sphere provenance, and its state-led growth may appear at odds with its private capitalist and market-driven character, but are of a piece with the collusion of state and market that characterises much that …

Arnab Goswami-style journalism is killing the essence of debates
8 years, 10 months ago

Arnab Goswami-style journalism is killing the essence of debates

Firstpost  

On the Monday edition of Times Now’s show The Newshour, editor-in-chief Arnab Goswami referred to journalist Asad Ashraf as a ‘cover for the Indian Mujahideen’. The following is Asad’s own take on that particular situation and the present state of journalism as a whole On the Monday edition of Times Now’s show The Newshour, editor-in-chief Arnab Goswami referred to journalist …

News has to remain a public good
8 years, 11 months ago

News has to remain a public good

The Hindu  

One of the privileges of being an interlocutor between the newspaper and its vast readership is to hear multiple opinions, diverse ideas of what a newspaper should be, and what adjustments the readers expect in this digital age. In the course of the conversation, he also raised some interesting questions about the nature of the revenue streams that govern the …

India's free and irresponsible media
9 years, 8 months ago

India's free and irresponsible media

Firstpost  

by Shashi Tharoor I am, in a sense, a child of the Indian newspaper. Circulations have shot up along with literacy and disposable incomes, so that the Times of India today can call itself the world’s most widely-read English-language broadsheet, and Hindi newspapers boast readership numbers that would exceed the wildest fantasies of any editor in the world outside Japan. …

Thirty years of progressive, upstanding journalism
10 years, 2 months ago

Thirty years of progressive, upstanding journalism

The Hindu  

THIRTY years in the life of a serious magazine is a significant landmark, especially considering the big changes that have taken place during this period in India, in the South Asian neighbourhood, and in the world beyond. I subsequently elaborated on the theme of the Indian news media “sharing the best and the worst” of the global media scene in …

A challenge to media
10 years, 10 months ago

A challenge to media

The Hindu  

The election results are emphatic. This is the time for the media and for journalists to remember Albert Einstein’s words: “blind belief in authority is the greatest enemy of truth.” One leader who showed us the way to act as a responsible opposition was Mahatma Gandhi. In either event, it is unpatriotic not to tell the truth, whether about the …

Media moguls: Inside the minds of Samir and Vineet Jain
12 years, 5 months ago

Media moguls: Inside the minds of Samir and Vineet Jain

Firstpost  

Samir and Vineet Jain run India’s biggest media conglomerate. It is impossible to talk about Indian publishing without discussing Samir Jain, whose invisible hand guided The Times of India group to become India’s – and probably the world’s – most profitable media company. Nobody in the Indian media loves Samir Jain’s business philosophy that treats journalism merely as a necessary …

Musings on the media in the dock
13 years, 4 months ago

Musings on the media in the dock

The Hindu  

Much of the media, says Justice Markandey Katju, the new Chairman of the Press Council of India, is of very poor intellectual level. Some of the best thinkers of our time — Noam Chomsky, Jacques Derrida, Pierre Bourdieu, to name a few — have dwelt on how the media compromise, co-opt and corrupt intellectuals, and why they must resist the …

Santosh Hegde Favours Legal Regulations Over Media Functioning
13 years, 4 months ago

Santosh Hegde Favours Legal Regulations Over Media Functioning

India TV News  

Bangalore, Nov 20: Former Karnataka Lokayukta Santosh Hegde has favoured “some amount” of legal regulations over functioning of the media, citing factors like “paid news” and the fourth estate being used by vested interests. Speaking to PTI here today, the former Supreme Court judge said mediapersons should also be accountable to curb false and suppressive stories. Supporting “some amount” of …

Indian media in a challenging environment
13 years, 8 months ago

Indian media in a challenging environment

The Hindu  

We have been witness in recent years to rapid, and unprecedented, changes in our society, economy, and polity. Increases in per capita income, discretionary spending capability, attractiveness of India as a market and as a destination of foreign investment, have all reinforced the centrality of the Indian mass media system. This is true of a nation's freedom and it applies …

Full text of the interview with Alan Rusbridger, Editor, The Guardian
14 years, 6 months ago

Full text of the interview with Alan Rusbridger, Editor, The Guardian

The Hindu  

You have been speaking about mutualisation of the newspaper, and you explained how it makes sense to involve readers, many of whom have expertise in subjects. This phrase commoditised news, which is news that is everywhere and is always going to be freely available, I don’t think people will pay for. Don’t just think about newspapers, because you look outside …

Media has lost its sense of priorities: Sainath
14 years, 8 months ago

Media has lost its sense of priorities: Sainath

The Hindu  

Pointing out that a disconnect exists between mass media and mass reality in India today, P. Sainath, Rural Affairs Editor of The Hindu, said the media had lost its sense of priorities and was out of touch with the problems of a vast section of the population of the country. Noting that the media coverage and editorials following the recent …

Self-regulation for media must to stop external regulation: Ram
14 years, 10 months ago

Self-regulation for media must to stop external regulation: Ram

The Hindu  

Media organisations, both big and small, must observe self-regulation as “there will be public support for external regulation if we don't regulate corruption in the media,” N. Ram, Editor-in-Chief of The Hindu, said here on Saturday. Mr. Ram said corruption in the form of paid news, an “awful phenomenon,” would grow in the absence of self-regulation and “I don't see …

Journalism can play a leading role in agenda-building process: N. Ram
14 years, 11 months ago

Journalism can play a leading role in agenda-building process: N. Ram

The Hindu  

Journalism at its best can even have a leading role in the “agenda-building” process though this should not be confused with “agenda-setting” and “propaganda,” N. Ram, Editor-in Chief, The Hindu, said here on Monday. Speaking on “Media as Protector of Public Discussion” at the opening session of a two-day roundtable on Markets, Media and Democracy, organised jointly by UNICEF and …

Commercialisation has affected media’s decisions: Hamid Ansari
15 years, 4 months ago

Commercialisation has affected media’s decisions: Hamid Ansari

The Hindu  

Huge investments, the emergence of media conglomerates and their explosive growth have brought into focus new considerations that guide professional media decisions, Vice-President and Rajya Sabha Chairman M. Hamid Ansari said here on Wednesday. The interplay of these conflicting demands is evident and subject of public debate,” he said >inaugurating a three-day workshop on “Parliament and Media” organised by the …

Break in news
17 years, 11 months ago

Break in news

Hindustan Times  

So what if their newspapers are better written, their television channels often slicker to watch and their internet portals way more sophisticated than ours? Tabloid journalism was held in fierce contempt and while it was okay to flip through the film rags at the dentist’s or the hairdresser’s, no self-respecting person would ever confuse gossip with news. Whether it’s the …

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