BY Prabhakar Kulkarni| IN MEDIA PRACTICE |05/09/2012
The sale of Lata Mangeshkar's"Jayprabha Studio" has been prevented by the film fraternity and the citizens of Kolhapur, after the Maharashtra Times broke the story.
BY Prabhakar Kulkarni| IN REGIONAL MEDIA |26/12/2011
Marathi daily Loksatta has revealed the likely link between a huge donation received by a Minister's trust and the governmental sanctions accorded to the donor.
BY Prabhakar Kulkarni| IN MEDIA PRACTICE |05/03/2011
The real strength of a democracy lies in transparency. The need to maintain secrecy in official interest is not always in public interest.
BY Prabhakar Kulkarni| IN MEDIA PRACTICE |31/05/2010
A no-holds-barred battle between a policeman and a politician becomes masala for the media and rocks the ruling coalition in Maharashtra.
BY Prabhakar Kulkarni| IN REGIONAL MEDIA |16/04/2010
While severely criticizing Congress culture and the party’s narrow political game, ‘Saamna’ has commented that Bachchan is not a political personality.
BY Prabhakar Kulkarni| IN MEDIA PRACTICE |17/08/2009
The High Court has taken cognizance of the investigative series, and recorded a ‘sue moto’ public interest litigation by making the editor a PIL litigant and providing an advocate to him to fight the case.
BY Prabhakar Kulkarni| IN MEDIA PRACTICE |24/06/2009
Marathi newspapers expose corruption and find 60 percent of the employees in Maharashtra¿s agriculture department are unqualified,
BY Prabhakar Kulkarni| IN REGIONAL MEDIA |16/05/2009
Strangely enough money thus earned by way of bribe is invested in the same business of liquor shops owned by those belonging to the prohibition department.
BY Prabhakar Kulkarni| IN REGIONAL MEDIA |27/04/2009
In his editorial Loksatta editor Kumar Ketkar has explained why he published part of autobiography by Pravin Mahajan while others lacked courage to publish it.
BY Prabhakar Kulkarni| IN REGIONAL MEDIA |04/02/2009
Most of the Marathi newspapers have critically interpreted the police action with analysis of the burning issue,
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The new term for self censorship is voluntary censorship, as proposed by companies like Netflix and Hotstar. ET reports that streaming video service Amazon Prime is opposing a move by its peers to adopt a voluntary censorship code in anticipation of the Indian government coming up with its own rules. Amazon is resisting because it fears that it may alienate paying subscribers.                   

Clearly, the run to the 2019 elections is on. A journalist received a call from someone saying they were from Aajtak channel and were conducting a survey, asking whom she was going to vote for in 2019. On being told that her vote was secret, the caller assumed she wasn't going to vote for 'Modiji'. The caller, a woman, also didn't identify herself. A month or two earlier the same journalist received a call, this time from a man, asking if she was going to vote for the BSP.                 

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