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NDTV managing editor Barkha Dutt has been given the CBA-Thomson Foundation Journalist of the Year Award constituted by the Commonwealth Broadcasting Association (CBA) and Thomson Foundation. Dutt won in a category that included nominations from 53 Commonwealth countries. A woman waits for water in Soweto. The CBA-Amnesty International Award for Human Rights Programme went to South African...

Mint, the new business newspaper published by HT Media Ltd in association with the Wall Street Journal debuts in New Delhi and Mumbai on February 1. Published in English and with an initial circulation of around 80,000 copies, Mint would be delivering global and regional business and economic news to Indian readers Monday-Saturday each week. Every weekday, Mint will also carry four pages of...

PANJIM, DEC 19—Sonia Faleiro of Tehelka newspaper has been honoured with the second prize print/online category by CNN channel for her story on farmers’ suicides in Vidarbha.. The award for the print/online category went to Rohit Vishwanath of Businessworld magazine from Mumbai for his story ‘Shop Floor Jobs Are Hot Once Again’ which dealt on how engineering graduates are now looking for shop...

(IFJ/IFEX) - The International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) today welcomed the announcement by the government of India that it will set up wage boards for newspaper employees, which will provide a nationally negotiated agreement on wages and working conditions for the country's media staff. "This announcement is a good start to setting fair and equitable standards for journalists and other...

New Delhi: The Union Cabinet on approved the setting up of separate Wage Boards for journalists and non-journalist newspaper employees under a common chairman. ''The two boards, which will be under a common chairman, will be for working journalists and for the non-journalist newspaper employees,'' Information and Broadcasting Minister Priya Ranjan Dasmunsi said, as quoted by UNI, after the Cabinet...

New Delhi, Dec. 14 (PTI): A large number of journalists and workers of media organisations today staged a demonstration in front of the Labour Ministry here demanding immediate constitution of a new wage board. The demonstration was organised by the Confederation of Newspaper and News Agency Organisations. M S Yadav, Joint Secretary of the Confederation, addressing the protestors, said "If the...

The International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) today called on its network of more than 100 unions and associations around the world to give their backing to a nationwide series of unified protests in India on Thursday. The country’s three major journalists groups – the Indian Journalists’ Union, the National Union of Journalists, India and the All India Newspaper Employees Federation – have...

If a book on the Indian media business prompts its author to rush into a revised edition within three years of its bestselling success, it means only one thing – the Indian media landscape is changing, and changing quite rapidly. THE BOOK FOR THE SEASON: When Vanita Kohli-Khandekar wrote The Indian Media Business in 2003, it went on to become a bestseller. For a number of reasons. For one, it was...

Environment comprises a minuscule 0.35 per cent of news on popular Hindi news channels, closely trailing agriculture at 0.4 per cent and health at 0.5 per cent. GREEN-HUED, BUT NOT THAT MUCH: A view of the Sahara Samay newsroom. Sahara Samay, the survey found, also led in terms of diversity in the coverage of news, closely followed by DD News and NDTV Hindi. Diversity of environmental news...

The big three of the Indian newspaper market – Dainik Jagran, Dainik Bhaskar and Eenadu – have retained their position, according to the just-released findings of the National Readership Survey (NRS) 2006. And yes, there is not a single English daily in the Top 10 bracket. HOLDING ON TO ITS POSITION: Dainik Jagran with a readership base of 21,165,000 remains the most widely read newspaper despite...