2005-2014

Changing mindsets are giving way to alternative career options. Gone are the days when all one could choose from was medicine, engineering or law. Mass communications and journalism, more so, over the last few years have turned out to be a viable career option. A number of reasons have been driving students to take up journalism. But, what are these? Radhika Khanna, head of the department of...

NEW DELHI, August 1: Statistics, doesn't matter if they conceal a lot too, come across as a veritable tool to blow prevalent notions to smithereens. So, the myth that the Net has spread itself out all over the country, and the claims that the Net is going to be the instrument for change far and wide appear a tad hollow if one were to look even cursorily at the findings of one of the largest...

Finally it is here. After almost every sector has witnessed a boom, it is finally boom time for the print media as well. With Mumbai at the receiving end of three brand new newspapers and a general upbteat mood in the industry, it’s raining jobs for media professionals. The joke doing rounds in media circles is that newspaper offices may soon put up a sign on their doors ? ?Trespassers will be...

America is wired. Sixty-three percent of U.S. adults use the Internet daily, 78 percent of 18-to-29-year-olds are online, and approximately 60 million people now have broadband service in their homes. "In the future, wireless connectivity will increase through laptops, cell phones and personal digital devices such as PalmPilots and BlackBerries," says a 2005 report by Lee Raine, project director...

New Delhi: Urging the country’s media houses to professionalise and institutionalise the concept of press freedom, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh on Saturday said that visibility and multiplicity of publications did not automatically guarantee credibility, and that there was a need to project the Fourth Estate in a more transparent manner. Daily News and Analysis (DNA) newspaper here this morning...

New York, July 29, 2005–As many as eight journalists were injured today in Srinagar, the major city of Indian Kashmir, after a grenade attack triggered gunfire between militants and security forces in the area, according to international news reports and local reporters. At least one journalist, Muzzafar Ahmad Bhat, a cameraman for the Indian news channel Sahara TV, was critically injured and...

NEW DELHI, July 30: Dainik Jagran, the largest read publication in India with 2.12 crore readers, is set to launch its Jammu edition next Monday, August 1. This marks the 27th edition for the newspaper behemoth. Sanjay Gupta, CEO, Dainik Jagran, said the Jammu edition will be the first national Hindi daily to be published from Jammu. "The Amar Ujala or Punjab Kesari editions are not national...

During the early days of the military conflict in Iraq, Americans discovered a new Internet phenomenon called "blogging." U.S. soldiers stationed in the Middle East created online Web pages, or "Web logs," to share their experiences and feelings with readers. This brought attention to blogging as a form of communication, and people worldwide began Web logs of their own. Last year, the "blogosphere...

Rediff.com India Ltd, one of the leading online providers of news, information, communication, entertainment and shopping services for Indians, has recorded 53 per cent growth in its revenues in the first quarter this year. Intensification in online advertising and mobile services resulted in increased revenues for the company, with revenues from India online increasing by 114 per cent to $2...

We must let journalism rust. As air and sunlight turns old cars and tools an earthy red, oxidization turns tabloids and broadsheets a stale shade of yellow. This hue, "vintage newspaper," is not the prettiest color in the spectrum. But we should not forget what it looks like. I am not affecting nostalgia here. I am concerned that the computers we so desperately rely on don’t know everything...