2021-03-19 11:44
The debasement of the editorial and op-ed page of newspapers, by turning them into the plaything of maaliks and marketing mavens, is a work in rapid progress.
Hindustan Times and The Indian… Read More
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2021-03-18 07:28
As the old saying goes, once is happenstance, twice is coincidence, thrice is enemy action. Or, as we say in journalism, a trend.
In the space of just 20 days, two Members of Parliament have… Read More
2021-03-15 06:37
The legendary New Yorker writer A.J. Liebling is credited with the aphorism that “the freedom of the press belongs to those who own one”.
Meaning: he who pays the printer calls… Read More
2021-03-11 05:42
The Press Council of India (PCI), is inviting applications for the 14th Council with an amended set of rules. Advertisements inviting claims have appeared in at least 18 newspapers across t… Read More
2021-03-09 10:35
Madras High Court has a new Chief Justice, its 42nd: Justice Sanjib Banerjee. Nothing new there, all high courts have a first among equals.
The interesting part comes through two tweets by… Read More
2021-03-07 10:22
Crossword puzzles with big prizes were a big draw for newspapers and magazines in the time before the internet.
The Illustrated Weekly of India, among others, ran giant puzzles to keep read… Read More
2021-03-05 08:48
Dr R. Krishnamurthy, the former Editor of the Tamil daily newspaper Dina Malar, has passed on, aged 88.
A full-page obituary adorns the front page of the paper in today’s issue. Dr Kri… Read More
2021-02-13 09:29
An edit page piece in The Times of India by the paper’s edit page editor Swagato Ganguly has got the Russians—or at least their representative in India—all riled up.
The pi… Read More
2021-01-27 07:32
In its hey day, The Pioneer counted Rudyard Kipling, Winston Churchill and Harivanshrai Bachchan among its star correspondents.
But 155 years after it rolled off the press in Lucknow, the ne… Read More
2021-01-27 05:34
The farmers’ protests in Delhi against new farm laws sneaked in through Parliament, with former ‘Prabhat Khabar‘ editor Harivansh playing a questionable part as Rajya Sabha… Read More
2021-01-19 11:39
A ridiculously low cover price was one of key reasons for Indian newspapers to feel the COVID pinch more than their western counterparts.
With advertising dead during the lockdown, circulati… Read More
2021-01-16 07:38
“He who lives by other people’s WhatsApp chats shall be judged by his own WhatsApp chats.”—old jungle saying
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For weeks, after the de… Read More
2021-01-16 05:47
Kamal Morarka, the politician and businessman, who co-founded the now-defunct Bombay tabloid newspaper The Afternoon Despatch & Courier, has passed away at age 74.
Morarka, a former min… Read More
2021-01-13 10:25
“Incompatible with basic values of Constitution; violative of Article 19(1)(a) and Article 14; incurably vague and manifestly arbitrary”: Krishna Prasad, N. Ram, Arun Shourie &a&helli…Read More
2021-01-06 06:16
Conflict of interest is the zeitgeist, the spirit of the time.
The official kit sponsor of the Indian cricket team is MPL: Mobile Premier League, ostensibly a fantasy game. And MPL’s… Read More
2021-01-04 05:29
For the longest time, journalists and physical fitness could never be used in the same sentence except in jest.
Long and irregular working hours, fat and oily samosas, slouching at the desk… Read More
2021-01-03 03:38
T.J.S. George, the co-founder of Asiaweek magazine, who does a weekly column for The New Indian Express, wrote a piece last week on Kerala governor Arif Mohammed Khan‘s decision to di… Read More
2021-01-02 04:43
Three years ago, government schools in Kerala made headlines for introducing a course on dealing with fake news.
Now the state has announced a five-step digital media literacy programme tit… Read More
2020-12-28 07:11
The month-long agitation by Punjab’s resolute farmers over the agricultural “reforms”, artfully sneaked through Parliament with former journalist Harivansh (former Editor… Read More
2020-12-25 15:16
On its anniversary each February, the evening newspaper Star of Mysore prints the same editorial it has published on each of its previous 43 anniversaries.
Likewise, on Christmas, The Washin… Read More
2020-12-25 13:06
“In journalism, we can be in the heating business or the lighting business”: @nytimes columnist Nicholas Kristof, who called out card companies for facilitating child porn, enu… Read More
2020-12-23 08:31
The Sister Abhaya case has finally reached closure with a Catholic priest and a nun being pronounced guilty of the murder of the teenaged nun, 28 years ago, in Kottayam.
It was the journalis… Read More
2020-12-21 02:30
For the first time in 15 years, not counting holidays, Mumbai Mirror is not on the news stands or in homes today, Monday, 21 December 2020, following its “transition” to a weekly… Read More
2020-12-19 15:14
The front page of the Bombay tabloid Mumbai Mirror dated 19 December 2020, on the final day of its publication as a daily newspaper.
The Times group, which owns the paper through a Bangalor… Read More
2020-12-17 04:56
The academic and public intellectual Shiv Visvanathan, has a piece in The Telegraph on the ongoing farmers’ protests in Delhi, demanding the repeal of new laws passed by the BJP-led g… Read More
2020-12-16 07:47
Exactly six months ago, on the intervening night of June 15-16 this year, the lives of 20 Indian soldiers ended—literally at the hands of the Chinese in the heights of Ladakh.
Fo… Read More
Editors Guild Of India Is Looking For An ‘Executive And Research Assistant’ To Be Based In Delhi
2020-12-14 09:33
Location: Delhi, India
Experience: 1-3 years
Deadline: 20 December 2020
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The organisation
Editors Guild of India is the apex body of editors from across the country, repres… Read More
2020-12-12 07:50
Nine months after the pandemic broke the back of the media, the Indian Newspaper Society (INS) has revived its demand for a “stimulus package”.
It includes:
# Removal of 5% cus… Read More
2020-12-11 05:58
Becoming a digital-first operation, and getting readers to pay for content, is the battlecry on every media manager’s lip across the world. But the Financial Times of London has b… Read More
2020-12-07 08:27
The front page of the Gujarati language newspaper Divya Bhaskar, published by the Dainik Bhaskar group, after four of its journalists were booked by police in Rajkot for a sting operation a… Read More
2020-12-06 11:05
The pandemic and the economic slump may have given the Times group the cloud cover to pull the trigger on Mumbai Mirror, but the tabloid’s fate was probably decided when it was hived… Read More
2020-12-06 08:18
The Brihanmumbai Union of Journalists (BUJ) and the Mumbai Press Club have both spoken out against the abrupt decision to turn Mumbai Mirror into a weekly, and shut down Pune Mirror.
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2020-12-05 11:16
The Times of India group has reportedly decided to pull the shutters down on its tabloid offering Mumbai Mirror as COVID continues to take its toll on Indian media.
A Times Group statement… Read More
2020-12-02 09:09
Narendra Modi‘s allergy for unscripted media interrogation is evident from his all-too-few interactions with professional journalists, not propagandists and actors, and the BJP governm… Read More
2020-11-30 12:36
A baffling splitscreen stares at journalists, especially middle-aged and experienced journalists, in a post-COVID world ravaged by falling revenues, plunging profits and growing irrelevan… Read More
2020-11-29 07:00
Biblio, the little magazine devoted to books, founded by three former staffers of The Times of India, has turned 25, and the Hindustan Times has a feature on it.
Biblio was founded by Dilee… Read More
2020-11-26 06:42
Football-crazy Bengal has easily beaten football-crazy Kerala and football-crazy Goa in its coverage of the passing of Argentinian legend Diego Maradona.
The Bengali daily Anandabazar Patr… Read More
2020-11-25 08:29
In the mid-1980s, when it still saw itself as a newspaper in the news business, The Times of India launched a annual contest for advertisements created by advertisers and agencies not for pr… Read More
2020-11-25 05:29
The closure of an organisation, the loss of a job, brings out the worst in employees. As uncertainty over the future looms, all the pent-up workplace frustrations against owners, bosses, man… Read More
2020-11-24 06:18
Remember the BBC Hindi reporter who lent his shoes to a migrant worker walking home barefoot after his footwear had snapped along the way, at the height of the COVID lockdown in May?
Well… Read More
2020-11-23 07:13
A foreign correspondent is an exotic bird quickly going extinct.
Once upon a time, newspapers had correspondents in many of the world’s news hotspots: Washington and London cert… Read More
2020-11-20 07:37
The business newspaper Mint has a new Editor: Sruthijith K.K..
The former Media Nama, Huff Post, Economic Times journalist replaces Vinay Kamat at the helm.
The new Editor’s full Aadh… Read More
2020-11-18 05:34
Bhanu Athaiya, the costume designer who dressed up everybody from Mumtaz to the Mahatma on screen and won an Academy Award for Gandhi, also did plenty of sketches for the now-defunct women&r&hell…Read More
2020-11-16 07:05
Marmik, the Marathi illustrated weekly that was the springboard for cartoonist Bal Thackeray‘s political launch, is celebrating its diamond jubilee with a 64-page special issue carryi… Read More
2020-11-14 12:05
The great West Indian writer C.L.R. James famously wrote: “What do they know of cricket who only cricket know?” In other words, there is a lot more to the game than just the game… Read More
2020-11-08 15:28
In India’s massive media universe, only The Telegraph is able to capture the significance of the Biden-Harris win in the US elections, that denies oxygen to four more years of unbrid… Read More
2020-11-07 09:02
The 1992 stock market swindle starring Harshad Mehta broken by the journalist Sucheta Dalal is now a “major motion picture” thanks to the web series Scam 1992 directed by Hansal… Read More
2020-11-05 06:02
Newspaper editorials on Republic TV founder and editor Arnab Goswami‘s arrest for allegedly abetting the suicide of an unpaid studio designer all take the same line: that no matter w… Read More
2020-11-02 06:11
What can the news media do when faced with vengeful rulers; scared and/or coopted owners and editors; advertising and circulation pressures; and a loss of trust and legitimacy among audienc… Read More
2020-11-02 04:45
Magazine covers in the week of the 2020 Trump v Biden general elections in the United States.
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2020-11-01 08:39
It is possible to spend your entire working life in The Times of India and not even get a para in the paper upon your passing, unless you are a Subhash Kirpekar, Arindam Sen Gupta or somebo… Read More
2020-10-26 10:52
Generally speaking, political analysis on Indian television has been as reliable as the weather report and as insightful as astrological predictions—but just a little less fun than th… Read More
2020-10-22 06:51
Anita Pratap, the Bangalore University journalism student whose byline—when bylines still had value—adorned Sunday and India Today magazines, Time and CNN, is in the news.
Pratap… Read More
2020-10-20 10:54
For months, after the abrogation of Article 370 in August 2019, Kashmir’s newspapers could not be printed or distributed; their reporters could not move around, meet people or file st… Read More
2020-10-20 05:55
How the cookie crumbles. In 2018, Zee group founder Subhash Chandra was India’s 27th richest man, his net worth valued at around Rs 35,000 crore.
Business Standard reports that he now… Read More
2020-10-17 09:27
Seema Mustafa, the founder and editor of the website The Citizen, has been elected as the new president of the Editors Guild of India for a one-year term.
Mustafa defeated M.D. Nalapat of T… Read More
2020-10-17 08:24
Peregrine Worsthorne, the former Editor of The Sunday Telegraph, London, passed away recently.
In The Telegraph, Calcutta, the paper’s fantastic London correspondent Amit Roy remember… Read More
2020-10-17 02:45
China has invaded and occupied over 1,000 sq km of Indian territory, approximately the size of Delhi, right under the nose of a “strong man”, without so much as a squeak from ps… Read More
2020-10-16 09:57
Kishore Bhimani, the voice that relayed to the world that a Test had been tied in Madras, with the scores level of both the teams with all wickets down, only for the second time in cricket… Read More
2020-10-10 07:21
One of the great miracles in Indian television is that every new news channel manages to overtake the incumbent market leader in a matter of weeks.
First NDTV overtook Headlines Today so… Read More
2020-10-09 05:46
Arnab Goswami‘s Republic TV has only been named in a Bombay Police FIR for allegedly rigging TV meters for ratings, but looking at the headlines in newspapers, it would appear it has… Read More
2020-10-06 07:31
Journalism is more than just bold-face owners and editors, whose face appears on TV or who advertise their greatness on social media every few minutes. There are many unsung heroes down the… Read More
2020-10-02 05:04
Raju Narisetti, the Times School of Journalism alumnus who was founder-editor of the business newspaper Mint, has been conferred an honorary doctorate by Bennett University set up by The Ti… Read More
2020-10-01 05:24
When the domes of the Babri Masjid in Ayodhya were brought down in 1992, the year after the liberalisation process began, there was great clarity in the news media and its consumers on the… Read More
2020-09-30 04:29
K. Narayanan, the former news editor and later readers’ editor of The Hindu, has passed on, at age 88. And so has the man who succeeded him at the post: Gomatam Dwarakanath, at age 86… Read More
2020-09-28 07:01
To no one’s surprise, the passing of Sir Harold Evans, the legendary Editor of The Times, London, received less-than-enthusiastic coverage in English newspapers in India, most of which… Read More
2020-09-25 05:02
The Times of India group’s outer facade is of a free-market champion where more is merrier, and only the fittest survive.
But, deep down, the flame of swadeshi and protectionism burn… Read More
2020-09-21 05:53
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2020-09-20 11:42
The arrest of Delhi-based journalist Rajeev Sharma, for violating the Official Secrets Act (OSA) by allegedly passing on “defence secrets” to China, is remarkable for the consist… Read More
2020-09-19 12:30
The Press Club of India has slammed the arrest of Delhi-based journalist Rajeev Sharma, allegedly for violating the official secrets act (OSA) by passing on “secrets” to the Chi… Read More
2020-09-19 05:33
An obituary advertisement in the Bangalore newspaper Deccan Herald on 19 September 2020, to mark the birth centenary of its former chief reporter, Y.K. Raja Gopal.
“Great journalist… Read More
2020-09-18 03:38
‘Rajasthan Patrika’, the well-regarded Hindi daily published from 9 states including two in the South, dedicated ‘Patrika Gate’ to the city of Jaipur, its headquarter… Read More
2020-09-16 12:11
At a time when consumers are exposed to beautifully crafted products from around the world, the first object Indians pick up every morning is The Daily Shame.
Barring the odd exception… Read More
2020-09-11 05:59
When Indira Gandhi imposed the Emergency in June 1975, a young journalist took out a 22-word classified advertisement in The Times of India in Bombay.
It read:
“O’Cracy, D.E.M… Read More
2020-09-09 11:22
The Financial Times has a front-page anchor on Zhong Shanshan, the founder of a bottled water company, who has become China’s third-richest man, after his stock listed on the Hong Kong… Read More
2020-09-08 10:10
The front page of the Hindi daily Rajasthan Patrika today to mark the inauguration of “Patrika Gate” built by the newspaper on Jawaharlal Nehru Marg in Jaipur.
The gate has been… Read More
2020-09-07 08:04
20 years ago, “Web 2.0” ushered in social media. It was free, it was fast, it was fun. Anybody with a phone could take part, and almost everyone did. It instantly connected fri… Read More
2020-09-04 08:46
Dr Kafeel Khan is, without doubt, one of the most egregious victims of majoritarianism in contemporary India, where a vengeful state unleashes the blunt instruments at its disposal to &ldqu&helli…Read More
2020-09-01 06:47
On the last day of August 2020, India and China were once again locked in horns at the border. As India’s COVID graph spiralled upwards, India’s economy plunged, contracting 23.9… Read More
2020-08-31 03:19
There is a story, probably an apocryphal one, that when Hindustan Times owner Shobhana Bhartia told an American designer who had designed The Washington Post, that she wanted a “good-l… Read More
2020-08-27 05:58
An internship or a job is for a journalism student. A book or a national seminar is for a journalism teacher.
An Obama Foundation scholarship is for a journalism school founder.
Timothy Fra… Read More
2020-08-26 05:17
The coverage of the #TablighiJamaat congregation in Delhi—the shameless attempt to give the #Coronavirus outbreak a communal angle—was one of the more egregious examples of a maj… Read More
2020-08-24 09:53
Ananth Krishnan, the Mandarin-speaking Beijing Correspondent of The Hindu, on his book “India’s China Challenge” (HarperCollins), in the wake of #Coronavirus&nb&hellip…Read More
2020-08-24 05:45
On the day of reckoning for advocate Prashant Bhushan before the Supreme Court of India, The Telegraph has a fine story of an Editor in Kerala who refused to buckle in and opted to spend a… Read More
2020-08-21 09:32
Steve Bannon, the former investment banker who was editor-in-chief of the right-wing US website Breitbart before he became a key architect of Donald Trump‘s 2016 presidential election… Read More
2020-08-20 04:18
“Telling people, who did not know Mr So-and-So was alive, that Mr So-and-So is dead,” is one of the better definitions of the basic functions of journalism.
And so it comes to pa… Read More
2020-08-19 06:38
The acclaimed New Yorker writer and best-selling author Malcolm Gladwell on journalism, and the future of journalism, in a podcast interview with Anna Maria Tremonti of the Canadian public… Read More
2020-08-18 07:29
When the Democratic Party’s vice-presidential nominee Kamala Harris‘s mother Shyamala Gopalan, a Tam-Brahm, decided to tie the knot with Donald Harris, a Jamaican black, her gra… Read More
2020-08-18 04:25
Four days after The Wall Street Journal revealed Facebook’s chief India lobbyist Ankhi Das batting for BJP’s hate mongers, Indian newspapers are unable to add to a story that has… Read More
2020-08-17 05:40
The August 14 expose in The Wall Street Journal of Facebook’s schmoozing with the BJP-led NDA government, by promoting hate speech for “business prospects”, has deep impli… Read More
2020-08-17 02:11
Prabhat Khabar, the Hindi daily first published from Ranchi 36 years ago, pays a handsome tribute to the eastern Indian city’s greatest contemporary contribution to the national and g… Read More
2020-08-15 11:35
Ankhi Das (second from right) with Narendra Modi when Facebook COO Sheryl Sandberg called on the prime minister in all saffron.
Facebook’s shady role in Indian politics—hunting w… Read More
2020-08-15 07:17
The following is the full text of the message sent by Lord Mountbatten, the outgoing Viceroy, on India’s Independence Day in 1947.
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“I send my greetings and best wishes to th… Read More
2020-08-14 03:32
Thirty-six years is but a blip in a newspaper’s history, when there are many publications which are over 100 years old.
The Times of India was technically launched in 1838, making it j… Read More
2020-08-13 06:50
While reading The Times of India in 2008, writer-director Faruk Kabir stumbled upon a four-column story headlined “Man ‘buys’ back wife from pimp“.
It was a story fi… Read More
2020-08-09 06:59
Never speak ill of the dead, maybe, but a week after his death, Amar Singh would go down in most people’s books as a fixer, as an operator, whose chief asset was an enviable (and enjo… Read More
2020-08-08 05:59
Muralidhar Anant also known as Baba Shingote, the Maharashtrian who founded the Kannada newspaper Karnataka Malla and the Tamil newspaper Tamil Times in Bombay to serve the city’s vas… Read More
2020-08-07 09:08
The following is the full text of the internal communication sent out by India Today chairman Aroon Purie, announcing the suspension i.e. closure of the print edition of the group’s t… Read More
2020-08-07 05:51
Besides all her other achievements, the American singer-actor Barbra Streisand contributed the “Streisand Effect” to the dictionary of the digital age, when she sued a photograph… Read More
2020-08-06 07:43
“The book that begins with ‘We, the people of India’ is the God that we failed”
“Raja and rishi are no longer”
With a picture of the Constitution, and… Read More
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