2005-2014

The Independent: As Good As It Gets? The Independent - like the Guardian, a newspaper with supposed progressive credentials - noted blandly in a recent editorial that "Global warming is given little coverage by the US media." (Leader, 'The American consensus of denial is crumbling,' August 19, 2005). True enough. But look at our own doorstep; at the wholly inadequate coverage of climate change in...

There has been quite a bit of action in the Hindi news genre of late, especially with regard to the number two player. Even as the numbers have been throwing up a different player every week recently, media professionals explain that decisions in the domain rely more on perception now and less on TRPs. And as more players are set to enter the field, the situation will accentuate further. Looking...

The International Federation of Journalists (IFJ), the global organisation representing over 500,000 journalists in more than 110 countries, is deeply concerned about reports of a violent attack against TV journalists in Chennai. According to IFJ sources, on August 31 a television crew was allegedly assaulted in Chennai while covering a victory celebration of transport employees who had been...

NEW DELHI, September 2: C4 Media & Communications, a media company promoted by Chandra Prakash Gupta, former senior associate editor of the Hindi daily, ‘Hindustan’, and mentored by Naresh Mohan, former executive president of ‘Hindustan Times’, is set to launch a weekly Hindi news magazine, ‘Har Shanivar’, on September 3. A general interest magazine, ‘Har Shanivar’ will have 64-plus, all-colour...

THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: The Press Council of India (PCI) on Thursday accepted a petition against leading vernacular daily Malayala Manorama for allegedly tricking "thousands of people" in investing with a company the paper had reportedly backed. Thomas T. George, a petitioner representing the Integrated Finance Company Depositors Association (IFCDA) had filed the petition against being misled in...

Kochi (Kerala) : A court Friday issued summons to the Madyamam newspaper in a defamation case filed by Malayala Manorama chief editor K.M. Mathew. The Ernakulam first class judicial magistrate asked respondent Madyamam and its editor and others to appear before it Oct 3. This is the second newspaper that Manorama has taken to court in the past one week. Last week the same court had issued summons...

Among the many cruelties delivered by Hurricane Katrina, there was this: The people most in need of information about the storm were the least likely to be able to see, hear or read about it. Journalists from the two hardest-hit areas -- New Orleans and the adjacent Gulf Coast of Mississippi -- have labored to describe the unfolding catastrophe. They have worked around demolished newsrooms and...

CBS News sent a boat packed with supplies -- including desperately needed fuel -- to rendezvous with its crew hunkered down in New Orleans. CNN was securing boats to navigate the flood zones and checked into renting dump trucks (the better to plow through rising waters). NBC News located mammoth recreational vehicles that sleep six, have working toilets and showers, and are packed with supplies...

Staff at news outlets in New Orleans and the surrounding southern US improvised to produce makeshift internet-only coverage after one of the country's most severe environmental disasters hit regular publishing operations hard. In Hurricane Katrina's aftermath, the city's daily Times-Picayune was unable to print or deliver newspapers so resorted to distributing PDF editions on the paper's website...

The New Orleans Times-Picayune is doing an excellent job in keeping publishing despite the Hurricane Katrina catastrophe. After offices were flooded the paper published only online using pdfs. The paper publishes on NOLA.com, a New Orleans local website that was launched in 1998 in affiliation with The Times-Picayune. The paper has set up a list of missing persons, where people can post...