the news. the views. the juice.
There’s never a dull moment when “breaking news” meets a “live” update on Indian television. Gautam Roy of Aajtak is the anchor, as India’s premier Hindi news channel, owned by the respected India Today group, chronicles the travails of a cat caught on a parapet for over six and a half hours.
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Indian journalist Seema Mustafa on the genesis of her opposition to the India-US nuclear deal, which some speculate could have contributed to M.J. Akbar being eased out of his position as editor of The Asian Age:
“It had to do with a certain commitment with which I joined the profession—a belief that journalism was powerful enough to change the world.
“I was fortunate in working with the greatest editors in Indian journalism, who not just added to this conviction, but also taught me that a good journalist was not one who made his or her peace with the establishment (as that is very easy and very comforting), but who questioned policy and wrote about the pitfalls.
“Journalism, they said, was all about irreverence, and had nothing to do with subservience.”
Excerpted from a column by Seema Mustafa in India Abroad
A spoof video on how the menu for the gossip magazine “Us Weekly” is cooked up.
Al Jazeera English, the global news channel launched by the Qatar-based Arabic channel, continues to be unavailable in the land of the free, but in the age of Web 2.0 what is beyond anybody’s reach if you want it badly enough? The best of the channel’s critically acclaimed output is there for those who make the effort on YouTube—for free.
This edition of its media review programme, Listening Post, hosted by Richard Gizbert, looks at the 15 top media stories of 2007. The survey conducted with the help of a Canadian company called Influence Communication, does not include online news, tabloid press or gossip magazines. The survey took into account the placement of the news item, the circulation and viewing figures, and how often a story was repeated in the media.
Time was when television reporting (or even entertaining visions of it) meant lugging tonnes of equipment—cameras, lights, adaptors, cables, etc. The prospect was both daunting and limiting.
No longer.
New cellphones enable amateurs to shoot, send or upload video of near-professional quality. In this YouTube video, a Reuters digital journalist talks of how the Nokia N95 is being used by the agency’s journalists.
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