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After the pioneering and successful initiative of the Indian Newspaper Society (INS) to highlight the problems of Small and Medium newspapers and publications on Monday in Delhi, INS is planning to take this initiative to other regions of the country. INS is planning to take the initiative of creating a forum to articulate issues that impact Small and Medium newspapers and publications initially...

Some of the chattering heads on television would have you believe that journalism in the USA is falling apart. It's not. Instead, it is assuming a new form. The recent reporting scandals are not a sign of new corruption as much as a sign of new transparency. First The New York Times, then USA TODAY, and now CBS have been under fire for failing to exercise close-enough supervision over errant...

For an observer from afar, there were three ways to experience the horrible 9.0-magnitude underwater earthquake and resulting tsunamis that wrought biblical destruction just after Christmas in Southeast Asia. First, you could read accounts in the newspaper or online, or you could hear them on the radio. Second, you might see still photographs from the scene. Third was the gripping amateur video...

Director General, DAVP, Swagat Ghosh denied that the Government body has been unfair to the small and medium newspapers in distributing social message advertisements. Ghosh, at an INS seminar on the small and medium newspapers, held on Monday, said that 67 per cent of DAVP ads went to small and medium newspapers last year, the rest going to the big dailies. "It’s just that the amount given to the...

The print media is alive and kicking. And the electronic and web media seems hardly a threat to the print media – this was the overall consensus at a seminar on small and medium newspapers organised by the Indian Newspaper Society (INS) on Monday. The daylong deliberations highlighted the survival concerns of small and medium-size newspapers, and experts pointed out that newsroom and production...

Every news channel has at least one, if not more, crime show, daily or weekly slotted for its viewers. The channels claim that these shows garner good viewership numbers. But with so many of them, is there an overdose of crime? Alka Saxena, Editor, Zee News, said, "The response to these shows are amazing, crime shows get the top ratings across all channels. Data show crime shows are very popular...

The earthquake and tsunamis that swept across South Asia nearly two weeks ago have killed almost 150,000 people, by the latest estimate. But with each passing day, fresh numbers of the dead and displaced continue to emerge. The television screens showed footage of water-logged coastal cities and towns along the Indian Ocean and there was talk of thousands of people, vehicles and furniture swept...

A meeting in India has attracted a large delegation of Pakistani journalists, with the aim of promoting more contact and cooperation with their Indian colleagues. The press clubs of Chandigarh, India, and Lahore, Pakistan, organized the conference, scheduled to begin January 6. About 70 Pakistani journalists made the trip Chandigarh, the Press Trust of India (PTI) reported. Ramesh Vinayak...

Paris Hilton gets more press in the New York Times than the humanitarian crisis in Darfur. This is according to Matt Thompson, a reporter working for the Poynter Journalism Institute, who reports that a search of the Lexis-Nexus news database shows that between May and June this year the New York Times gave about 10 000 words to stories that mentioned Darfur and "at least 17 000 words to stories...

In a stunning upset, India's voters surprised the media and the world by rejecting the ruling Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) and its Hindu nationalism in favor of the secular Indian National Congress party in general elections in May. However, despite the general disavowal of extremism at the polls, ethnic and religious tensions persisted in the world's largest democracy, posing onerous threats to...