Mamata wants to take over Saradha TV channels
Yahoo to buy Tumblr for $1.1 billion in biggest deal yet
Three stabbed to death in Agartala newspaper office
Hindi dailies lead circulation chart in July-December 2012
Hate speech case fixed to help Varun, says Tehelka
U.S. Justice Dept under fire on AP phone tap
US govt seizes call records of AP journalists
Up to 200 jobs to be cut at Germany’s top paper: Report
India, China to exchange notes on tackling media
Maoists attack DD centre in Bastar, 3 cops killed
HC notice on Swamy's plea that editors must be Indian citizens
I&B Ministry has done little to curb paid news: parliamentary panel
Trinamool Congress seizes control of two newspapers owned by Saradha
Kanimozhi had no role in 200-crore transaction: Kalaignar TV manager
 The article for which Times Publishing House Ltd. served a legal notice to Paranjoy Guha Thakurta. |
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Bully tactics?
In a very unusual move to put it mildly the Times Group sent a legal notice to the journalist who wrote the piece but not the newspaper which published it.
A HOOT comment on the litigious media leader. Pix: the defamation notice sent to Aparajita Lath
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SLAPP suits as intimidation
A simple shorthand for SLAPP suits will always be Deep Pockets v. Free Expression. And so it has been in India.
UJWALA UPPALURI discusses the particular damage this device is able to do to free speech.
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Inside jobs for outsiders
The hiring of Shri Dawes has set many minds thinking. New slots must be created by media houses to facilitate employment of true blood firangis.
AJITH PILLAI thinks there's scope for a firang Columniser-in-Chief and Faking News Officer, among others.
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Reliance's pre-emptive legal notices
Can legal notices be deployed to prevent a publication from coming out with an article?
PARANJOY GUHA THAKURTA reports how a law firm served notices on the editor of Caravan magazine even as it was working on a cover story on the attorney general. Pix: The notice sent.
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Andhra FB case underscores 66A misuse
Under Section 66A of the IT Act, critical comments on cyberspace are inviting penal action, even arrest.
MADABHUSHI SRIDHAR says this gives police draconian powers that violate freedom of speech. PIX: Change.org
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Dutt: Celebrity or criminal?
Fawning media coverage of actor Sanjay Dutt's conviction gave the sense of a man wronged.
Such news treatment dilutes the severity of his crime, says ARCHANA VENKAT
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Demolitions and the English press
Slum demolitions don't attract press coverage; building demolitions do. Because buildings, not slums, are where people like us live.
Where does this empathy go when slums are being demolished, asks JYOTI PUNWANI Pix: Medha fasts
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A tough boss for broadcasters
All it takes for regulation to take hold in a wayward sector, is a new dispensation not inclined to look the other way.
Rahul Khullar thinks the media has gone unregulated for too long, says SEVANTI NINAN. PIX: TRAI chairman Rahul Khullar
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Brainstorming over paid news
A Parliamentary panel has pronounced that media's self-regulation is not working.
AJITH PILLAI imagines marketing brains in media houses could be ganging up to beat any threat to paid news.
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Indirect victory against paid news
The disqualified MLA challenged the constitutional validity of section 10A of the Representation of People's Act 1951 which the EC used against her.
The Allahabad High Court has upheld the validity of the RP Act to disqualify Umlesh Yadav says MADABHUSHI SRIDHAR. PIX: The Allahabad High Court
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Other recent stories |
Ashok Panvalkar, editor of the Maharashtra Times put a post on his Facebook page about an advertising innovation in his paper on May 25, called French Windows. The innovation appears in their Mumbai and Nashik editions and the picture he posted boasts of creating history. With this ad. The Times Group proprietors would certainly approve.
A reader asks: "Newspapers and television are fussing about Gurunath Meiyappan being the son-in-law of BCCI chief N Srinivasan. Shouldn't the fact of his being a Principal (CEO) of Chennai Superkings, owned by Srinivasan, be more relevant to the case being investigated? Here the status of a son-in-law is relevant but becomes secondary."
Punjab Kesari on Thursday splashed gory pictures of the victims of a mass murder in Ghaziabad. The pictures of the family of seven that was brutally killed in their house are disturbing to say the least. Time for the Press Council and its otherwise vocal head Justice Katju to take notice.
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