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MEDIA WATCH

High Standards Amid the continuing gloom in the newspaper industry, here’s some news for print journalists looking for new job avenues. The Chennai-based New Indian Express Group is likely to launc...

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Raid on Quint More than a dozen income tax officials raided the residence and offices of Raghav Bahl, founder of the Network 18 group and news portal, The Quint. The tax department officials said t...

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Making the News The Press Trust of India building on Parliament Street resembles a fortress under siege. The reason is the protests over the bloodbath that took place at India’s biggest news agency...

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Modi’s Media Men and Woman With all parties in election mode, PM Narendra Modi has finalised his media advisory team. Unlike his predecessors, he has disdained the use of a regular media adviser bu...

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History Lesson After a brief lull, controversies are back at Rajya Sabha TV. The channel, owned and funded by the Rajya Sabha through its secretariat, has for the past month taken its associate exe...

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The Sibal Strike Congress veteran and Supreme Court advocate Kapil Sibal is racing against time—and the Modi government—to launch his TV news channel, oddly called Zero News, well before next year’...

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The D Word The Ministry of Information and Broadcasting has put the cat among the pigeonholes by its edict to the media to refrain from using the term “Dalit”. Earlier, a barely noticed directive b...

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Tying Times Last week was Raksha Bandhan, and an opportunity for Prime Minister Narendra Modi to reach out to his “Rakhi sisters”, among them a group of 14 women journalists, by following their soc...

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The Axeman Cometh The Chandigarh-based newspaper, The Tribune, is currently witnessing an unprecedented bloodbath with over a dozen editorial employees sacked and some more on the way out. The “pur...

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Answers, no Questions Back in 2015, French newspaper Le Monde was offered an e-mail interview with Narendra Modi. They turned it down, saying it was against policy. The Indian media has no such eth...

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