IN MEDIA WATCH BRIEFS |08/02/2018
Last year ABC Four Corners, an Australian news team, was threatened by the Crime Branch of Gujarat Police in October while it was at Gujarat’s Mundra port to investigate the Adani group. It was forced to leave Gujarat and India. Now comes this post from an Indian origin Australian journalist working..
Gujarat 2017: How did the media fare?
BY SEVANTI NINAN| IN MEDIA PRACTICE |14/12/2017
Though partisan channels batted for the incumbent, there was enough clear-eyed reporting on offer to unsettle the ruling party.
Excited reporter, invisible crowd
IN MEDIA WATCH BRIEFS |12/12/2017
The seaplane episode in Gujarat had the Republic TV reporter so excited that she kept repeating herself. “The seaplane coming to Gujarat for the first time is development…the PM is trying to promote tourism... All of these people ready to see the seaplane.. trying to get a glimpse of it…Just ..
IN MEDIA WATCH BRIEFS |06/12/2017
On Dec 6 Zee News’ edition of “Game of Gujarat” held in Sabarkantha was quite incredible. For starters the anchor thrust his mike at one person after another in audience asking, when you see Bhagwan Ram in that state in Ayodhya, does it make you sad? Dukh hota hai? Then..
IN MEDIA WATCH BRIEFS |15/11/2017
Zee News has rolled up its sleeves to do battle on behalf of the BJP as the Gujarat elections approach. On Nov 14 they played the Hardik Patel CD at prime time, and when it showed precious little that was incriminating the voice over said the channel was not playing..
IN MEDIA WATCH BRIEFS |27/02/2017
The Vijay Rupani government in Gujarat has increased accidental death cover for accredited journalists from Rs 50,000 to 5 lakh. Also families of accredited journalists will now get Mata Amrutm (MA) card for cashless treatment upto Rs 2 lakh in govt or designated pvt hospitals in the state. The MA..
IN MEDIA WATCH BRIEFS |10/10/2013
The Ahmedabad-based Neesa group is launching six TV channels, including an English news channel. It is already running a Hindi news channel Jano Dunia. The group is headed by a former IAS officer of the Gujarat cadre turned entrepreneur, who owns hotels and resorts. It has appointed former Tribune journalist..
Mainstream media turns away from "Gujarat Files"
BY JYOTI MALHOTRA| IN BOOKS |03/06/2016
Why did the mainstream media block out Rana Ayyub’s book on the Gujarat riots and fake encounters?
IN MEDIA WATCH BRIEFS |15/01/2016
On January 8, 2016 the Pune bench of the National Green Tribunal upheld the appeal of fishermen in Gujarat against the environment clearance given by the MOEF to the expansion plans of the Adani-Hajira Port Pvt. Ltd. It held the EC illegal and set it aside. The NGT said mangrove..
Media helping to vilify Ishrat?
BY Laxmi Murthy| IN MEDIA PRACTICE |06/07/2013
In the political blame game following the filing of the chargesheet in the Ishrat Jahan fake encounter case, the political class is bound to clutch at straws, but must the media follow suit,
IN MEDIA WATCH BRIEFS |06/10/2012
NaMo Gujarat, the TV channel that went on air on Thursday and aired Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi’s speeches live, has turned blank since Friday. The name of the TV channel resonates with the initials of the Chief Minister. The congress leaders had complained to the EC and requested them..
BY HARIHARAN VS| IN MEDIA PRACTICE|22/05/2012
The insignificant differences between preliminary and closure reports on the Gujarat violence have been highlighted as major discrepancies.
Godhra's victims: not remembered enough?
BY Jyoti Punwani| IN OPINION |19/03/2012
The year 2012 marks 10 years of suffering for another group of victims too - the Hindus whose families were burnt alive in Coach S 6. Ten years on, the English press has shown little concern for the victims of Sabarmati holocaust.
BY ATMAN DESAI| IN BOOKS |09/01/2012
The proprietors/editors of small papers are in a comfort zone once their publications come onto the advertisement panel. Most of them print fewer copies than the regulated number and still get their quota of government advertisements.
BY Adil Hossain| IN REGIONAL MEDIA |09/01/2012
A comparative study of how three newspapers and a website covered the Supreme Court's verdict on the Zakia Jafri case and Narendra Modi's"sadbhavna mission" reveals how they allowed him to set the agenda.
BY HOOT survey| IN REGIONAL MEDIA |16/10/2010
Gujarati newspapers used treatment, rather content, to indicate their pro- verdict stance. Did TOI’s well-meaning communal harmony efforts reaffirm stereotypes? Our series on Comparative Coverage begins with the Ayodhya coverage in Gujarat.
Making learning easy through videos
BY STELLA PAUL| IN COMMUNITY MEDIA |09/05/2010
Videoshala, an innovative program in Gujarat that trains community members in producing educational videos with local content, has helped rural students absorb lessons that are otherwise difficult for them to understand.
Sticking to the Gujarat government’s version
BY Himanshu Upadhyaya| IN MEDIA PRACTICE |04/04/2010
Does the Narmada issue and its emotive appeal in Gujarat predetermine the stylistic and editorial cuts in such a way that ‘an official’s version’ is zealously embraced, putting aside all the qualms about verifying the truth,
BY KALPANA SHARMA| IN OPINION |08/09/2009
The inconsistencies in the various accounts put out in the press were also glaring. Yet, no one followed up.
Media ethics and the SIT report on Gujarat
BY Siddharth Varadarajan| IN MEDIA PRACTICE |12/05/2009
Reporters should be careful about claiming to have "access" to explosive confidential documents when all they might have are a few paragraphs selectively planted on them by vested interests.
Narmada: planted news vs genuine reportage
IN MEDIA PRACTICE |13/09/2008
The tenor of the news story went on to present the speculative conjecture of ‘an official’ as if it were a fait accompli.
Ignoring judicial corruption in Gujarat?
BY sevanti ninan| IN MEDIA PRACTICE |05/07/2008
It is a mystery why neither the national nor regional media followed up on detailed exposes of the chief justice and some of his fellow judges, published by a Gujarati weekly in the state.
If its Gujarat it must be communal
IN MEDIA PRACTICE |31/05/2006
Deccan Chronicle displayed the tendency of the English press to sensationalise and communalize news relating to Gujarat.
Vadodara—stoking communal sentiments
IN MEDIA PRACTICE |11/05/2006
Professional ethics demand that, on such occasions, the media conducts itself with utmost restraint, not stoking communal tension.
BY darius| IN OPINION |08/05/2006
The more I read editorials, the more I wonder why those who write them are paid so much. Any blogger would do just as well.
IN OPINION |21/01/2005
Predictably, the most influential newspapers went into hand-wringing mode. O dear, O dear, they said, this mixing of religion and politics is awful
IN MEDIA WATCH BRIEFS |14/12/2004
Actress Smriti Irani suddenly taking on Narendra Modi on the issue of minority bashing in Gujarat is a bit much. Only recently on her talk show on Sab TV, Kuch Dil Se, she grilled a woman who had converted to Christianity to the point of being offens
Letter to the Hoot—Not the whole truth?
BY sastry| IN OPINION |31/01/2004
What happened in Gujarat in terms of human lives lost or property destroyed is terrible and no sane person can condone it. But equally terrible is the event that triggered it.
| IN MEDIA WATCH BRIEFS |04/09/2003
The Dainik Bhaskar launched an edition of Divya Bhaskar from Mehsana on September one, claiming that within two months of the paper’s Ahmedabad launch it was already the highest selling Gujarati newspaper in nine districts of North Gujarat.
Gujarat, Kargil, and the demonizing of the Other
IN MEDIA PRACTICE |17/02/2003
The two events conflate a recently dominant rhetoric of long-suffering, tolerant Hinduism now striking back whether in war or in riot. This connection seems to be missing in media commentaries.
Gujarat: A media overkill that missed the story
BY ninan| IN MEDIA PRACTICE |16/12/2002
The changing patterns of community thought and behaviour went unnoticed, misread or blanked out.
Reporting Gujarat:selective contextualisation and editorial amnesia
IN MEDIA PRACTICE |05/09/2002
National symposium on Gujarat Carnage and Media; A Report
IN MEDIA PRACTICE |26/08/2002
Gujarat and the media: inconsistent secularism
IN MEDIA PRACTICE |19/08/2002
Myth versus fact: Southern coverage of Gujarat
IN DIGITAL MEDIA |09/08/2002
Ignoring judicial corruption in Gujarat?
BY sevanti ninan| IN MEDIA PRACTICE |05/07/2008
It is a mystery why neither the national nor regional media followed up on detailed exposes of the chief justice and some of his fellow judges, published by a Gujarati weekly in the state.
Print media survey on Gujarat coverage
IN BOOKS |20/06/2002
Reporting Gujarat: what the Editors Guild found:
BY Gobind Thukral| IN OPINION |22/04/2002
Covering Communal Violence: Some Norms And Lapses
IN MEDIA PRACTICE |22/04/2002
Reporting Gujarat: how objective was media coverage?
IN OPINION |15/04/2002
TELEVISION COVERAGE OF EARTHQUAKE SHARING THE VIEWERS PERSPECTIVE
IN BOOKS |13/04/2002
