Reliance and right-wing politics gain a foothold in Raghav Bahl's media empire

The Network Effect
Reliance and right-wing politics gain a foothold in Raghav Bahl's media empire
By RAHUL BHATIA | 1 December 2013
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India: Operation Blue Virus Blows The Cover Social Media - how some leaders buy hate or popularity | Cobrapost expose

Cobrapost exposes how social media platforms such as Facebook, Twitter and others are coming in handy for politicians to artificially boost their popularity, and malign their opponents, with help of IT companies across India which specialize in providing customized online reputation management services, for a fee. About two dozen such companies have been uncovered. There is little social about

India: Modi, Media and Money | Sandeep Bhushan

http://www.openthemagazine.com/article/nation/modi-media-and-money
Open Magazine, 16 November 2013

Modi, Media and Money
The interplay of these three ‘M’s is doing Indian democracy a gross disfavour
BY Sandeep Bhushan

SPIN
MEDIA HALO Modi arrives for a National Media Workshop organised by the BJP on 17 August in Delhi (Photo: RAUL IRANI)

Is news television all about TRPs? Or is it an agenda of

India: on social media or TV, vigilantism rules | Bharat Bhushan

From Outlook Magazine | Oct 21, 2013

opinion
The 10 PM Soliloquies
At political fairgrounds, on social media or TV, vigilantism rules
by Bharat Bhushan

What is common between Ramdev, Anna Hazare, cyber warriors who attack any opinion different from theirs, retired Foreign Service officers and generals fulminating on security issues on television and the TV anchors who egg them on on behalf of

Muzaffarnagar - A case of ’Institutionalised Riot Systems’ | Ajoy Ashirwad Mahaprashasta

If one goes through majority of the mainstream media reports on the Muzaffarnagar riots, which displaced nearly 40000 Muslims and killed at least 50, the most important discourse that emerges is one of ‘administrative failure.’ Most reports rallied behind the notion that the riots could have been prevented if not for the state government’s laxity and delay in deploying troops in and around the

India: Readers' Editor at The Hindu on Evolving norms for reporting communal violence

The Hindu, September 23, 2013
Evolving norms for reporting communal violence

A.S. Panneerselvan

The spectre of communal violence is both a tragedy and a challenge for good journalism. How to report the violence? How to bring out the sense of pain and loss of innocent men, women and children caught in a web of destructive forces aided and spiralling due to political reasons? How can the media

India - Karnataka: A novel way to curb free speech

The Hindu, September 20, 2013

A novel way to curb free speech

Bageshree S.

The arrest of Yogesh Master in Karnataka for allegedly insulting Hindu sentiments through his book deals another blow to the freedom of expression and creative literary interpretation

The Kannada novel Dhundi created history of sorts in Karnataka when, on August 29, its author was arrested on the charge of outraging

A foundation for the future of journalism

..journalism, and the people who practise it, and the men (yes, it's almost all men) who control newspapers, have never been held in such low esteem by the public they are meant to serve. It is easy for we journalists to be defensive: this skulduggery was practised only by a small minority, and one of the prices to be paid for having the vibrant and diverse press we have in Britain is occasional unruliness born of competition. But that's not quite the point, and in any case it shouldn't be left to journalists to defend journalism. Better Thomas Jefferson, who said that, given a choice between government without newspapers and newspapers without government, he would unhesitatingly choose the latter.

That's because journalism, one of whose purposes is perfectly described by the Palestinian-based writer Amira Hass as "to monitor the centres of power", belongs to us all. Free speech, which we take for granted in the mature democracies of the West, is not the exclusive property of journalists, but is in public ownership, and beyond valuation. Against the backdrop of Leveson, it may be deeply unfashionable to say so, but journalism in all its forms can be, and usually is, an overwhelming force for good.

As we trawl through the gutter of the Street of Shame over the forthcoming months, it will be as well to remember that. In this context, today sees the launch of The Journalism Foundation, a not-for-profit organisation whose purpose is to promote, develop and support free, fair and independent journalism anywhere in the world through projects that have a direct and positive effect on people's lives.

For instance, one of the characteristics of the Arab Spring, whose unpredictable after-effects are still being played out across the region, is the revolutionary zeal to take advantage of newly won freedoms. The Journalism Foundation, in partnership with London's City University, is setting up the first practical training courses for journalists in Tunisia, where more than 100 media companies have been granted business licences and 20 newspapers have launched since the downfall of the regime.

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/media/press/a-foundation-for-the-future-of-journalism-6272341.html