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Rafale Media Bar It should have been a huge PR moment—handing over of the first Rafale fighter jet to India’s defence minister, Rajnath Singh, at the Dassault facility in France. Instead, media hou...

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Slowdown Blues The crucial sectors of the Indian economy which are going through a rough patch are starting to have an impact on the media. The negative fallout is that major advertisers, mainly th...

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The Tweaking Game Every quarter, newspaper readers are mighty confused by the contrasting full-page ads put out by the big two in Delhi and Mumbai—The Times of India and Hindustan Times—both claimi...

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Hard Times It is unusual to see a Hindu name, that too of a woman, featuring on the masthead as editor of a newspaper in Kashmir, but Anuradha Bhasin is the executive editor of Kashmir Times, a lea...

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Strange Encounters Inevitably, the dramatic developments involving Jammu and Kashmir have given rise to a flood of rumours and fake news on social media, fuelled by BJP/RSS-inspired nationalism and...

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Above: Photo courtesy YouTube  Righting a Wrong The old journalistic axiom of making a difference and exposing those in high places has become a rare occurrence in the recent past, thanks to the...

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Winning the Sack Race Those who think that it is only under the BJP rule that media owners have been put under political pressure to dismiss journalists critical of the government would do well to ...

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Above: Editor Ghulam Jeelani Qadri (in striped kurta) outside the Srinagar court after his bail/Photo: kashmirlife.net      In a shocking incident, a popular editor in J&K is arrested as he di...

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Power Play Doordarshan had it as their lead item, as did Zee News, Republic TV and Aaj Tak. Doordarshan went to town with the “exclusive” story but the others were not far behind in playing up the ...

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Sad News Television news is now an agenda-driven profession purveyed by corporate ownership with the editorial control and content decided by star anchors. So says a new book, The Indian Newsroom,...

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