Madhya Pradesh is going to undertake a research project on journalism in post-Independence India. It will lay special focus on Hindi and vernacular journalism.
Announcing the project here on Monday, Madhya Pradesh Chief Minister Babulal Gaur said Asia’s lone national university in media studies, Bhopal-based Makhanlal Chaturvedi National University of Journalism, had been entrusted the task of pioneering the research project.
The project, which would be launched by Vice-President Bhairon Singh Shekhawat on May 30 in Bhopal, would undertake an in-depth study into all aspects of journalism in post-Independence India like publication, printing, place of publication, language, periodicity, sphere of content and presentation, editor, publisher, printer, circulation, dimensions of development, expansion and technological advancement and other related issues, Mr Gaur said.
Senior journalist Achuytanand Mishra, who is coordinator in charge of the project, said after collecting the basic data, the project would focus on print media’s political, social and economic concerns.
He said the analysis and documentation of the compilation on post-Independence India’s journalism would be done statewise and language-wise in three phases.
