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Fifty six percent of editors surveyed believed the future would be free newspapers,
And only 45 per cent thought journalism’s quality would improve.
An annual survey of editors commissioned by the WORLD EDITORS FORUM and REUTERS.
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Another reason for the diminishing of the editorial's relevance is the inability to tell what is important and what is not. DARIUS NAKHOONWALA wonders why so few wrote about the women’s reservation bill. |
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Delhi dailies were prone to give it prime coverage, but the coverage given by regional editions and dailies turned out to be less predictable. S R RAMANUJAN takes a closer look. Pix, courtesy Indian Express. |
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Marathi daily Lokmat crunches the numbers and finds that the Maharashtra government did not work hard enough to spend its allocations. PRABHAKAR KULKARNI reports |
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Aspiring to be the first national daily from Pune, the new paper draws its editor and most of its editorial content from a Delhi-based media consultancy firm. KIRAN THAKUR tells us more. |
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Bare-bodied, protesting Indian taxi drivers evoked a contradictory as well as alliterative response from the Australian media. MAYA RANGANATHAN mulls over media perceptions of the protest. |
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A journalist is good at reporting facts; he is not a therapist. Accepting this limited role needs humility. SALIL TRIPATHI takes on P Sainath’s criticism of the media. |
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Media reports that he brought his own mineral water and refused to eat Indian food on a flying visit to Chennai had the kung fu star fulminating. B.F. FIROS gives us Chan’s version |
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Skewed priorities | | A four and a half year study of Western media has found that tropical diseases which affect many more people are rarely covered by them. During the study period, a scholar at Bordeaux University found 113 articles on tropical diseases in ten media outlets, compared to over a thousand that mentioned HIV/AIDS, in the AFP database alone. (IANS)
| Induced feedback | | 9x is offering two first class return air tickets to Singapore to anyone who will fill a 30 query questionnaire on everything the channel wants to know about its viewers or potential viewers. Above all, does the viewer belong to a category likely to be prized by advertisers?
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Zee TV made a huge fuss on May 8 how the world of news tv was going to change irrevocably. It gave a time, 9.56 pm, for the unveiling of the new look Zee. Proprietor Subhash Chandra made an appearance. The build up went on for a good ten minutes before their big story surfaced. And what was it? A close look at the political violence in Kannur. Hardly new, but gory alright.
| Impunity Index | | India figures on a new Impunity Index, prepared by the Committee to Protect Journalists. It gets on the Index because of five unsolved murder .. more>>
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