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Contact info for all the journalists who cover development in Karnataka, a state in India, will soon be available in a handy reference. The bilingual directory is intended to help the journalists and development organizations in the region work together more closely. Communication for Development and Learning (CDL), based in the city of Bangalore, is compiling the directory. CDL is devoted to...

The invasion and occupation of Iraq has certainly had its share of crimes and atrocities, any of which should be cause enough to have Bush and Blair brought before the Hague, if the mechanisms of international justice could actually bring the powerful to heel, beginning with the war itself, which, as noted here at Counterpunch and elsewhere, was a crime against peace, the worst possible crime, as...

During the past few years, newspapers and magazines have devoted millions of column inches to the shenanigans and suspect accounting of various corporate malefactors. But comparatively little attention has been paid to allegations of financial impropriety leveled at one segment of the business world: media companies. The press has had little to say about the question whether some newspapers and...

Objectivity, the guiding principle of the U.S. media, stands accused of undermining the press’s ability to challenge the Bush administration as it rushed to war in Iraq. We were too worried about balance, the argument goes, so concerned with giving all sides a say that we neglected our adversarial role. The British press, meanwhile, which is much more comfortable expressing its political leanings...

Reporters Without Borders (Reporters sans frontières) protested today against the arrest of a reporter working for the Tamil-language biweekly Nakkheeran, in what is a renewed attempt by the authorities in the south-eastern state of Tamil Nadu to implicate the staff of this independent newspaper in a murder allegedly committed by the well-known local bandit Veerappan. The reporter, who is known...

A World War II cemetery in India became a subject to test journalists’ writing skills during a five-day workshop in the northern state of Nagaland, one of the country’s most remote areas. The course on balanced reporting, conducted in January by the Thomson Foundation, was designed for local journalists in Kohima, Nagaland’s capital. Thomson said that 12 of the workshop participants were from...

Tehelka - which shot into instant fame with its headline-gabbing sting operation aimed at exposing corruption at high places and the vitriolic political reaction that followed the exercise - is back in the reckoning with a newspaper. The weekly, espousing ‘public interest journalism at its core', was launched on January 30, 2004. Offering an invitation price of Rs 10, Tehelka - The People's Paper...

In the wake of increasing competition and the 2004 general elections looming in the horizon, Aaj Tak plans to leave no stone unturned to maintain its leadership position. The homegrown 24-hour news channel is fortifying its weekend slot with some additional punch. After Jurm ki Duniya (Saturday), Ho Na Sakaa (Sunday) Seedhi Baat (Sunday), Duniya Ravivar (Sunday) and Cinema Aaj Tak (Saturday), the...

Close to a year after formation, NDTV Media - the subsidiary of NDTV, which has been focusing its attention on building the two brands of NDTV India and NDTV 24X7 - plans to expand its range of operations to include broadcasters/players outside the umbrella of the parent. The vision, as Raj Nayak, CEO, NDTV Media, highlights, is to emerge as the largest media marketing company. "The organisation...

A new media-training project under way in India involves the production of radio and television documentaries with cross-cultural themes. The London-based Thomson Foundation, which is carrying out the project, reports that the aim of these documentaries is to make more people aware of success in transforming conflicts relevant to both India and Europe. The 14-month project, financed by the...