Page 4 - Journalism

Mumbai Samachar, India's oldest newspaper at 200 years, going strong

Bombay Samachar (as it was called then) started as a weekly in 1822

Eyes on the world: Veteran lensman Raghu Rai talks about the digital age

Also discusses keeping a record of history and why his camera is not aimed at the pandemic

The search for news media

The pathetic state of India's news media - particularly news TV - leaves it at the mercy of international media and a few Indian brands that have the capacity to cover a story like the pandemic

The UBJ and Casey Weekly Are Emerging As A Popular Face Of Fact-Based Journalism Globally

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Climate of treason

Apex court should order scrapping all sedition cases

Death & journalism

The last 3 months have been the gravest period of national tragedy & there's definitely an undercount of Covid deaths. But doing that at a mass scale is tougher

Pope Francis challenges Vatican's journalists: Who reads your news?

Pope Francis challenged the Vatican's in-house journalists Monday to essentially justify their continued work, asking them how many people actually consume their news in a critique of the office that costs the Holy See more than all its embassies around the world combined. Francis visited the Dicastry of Communications, Vatican Radio and the headquarters of the Vatican's newspaper, L'Osservatore Romano, which is marking its 160th anniversary. He appeared to use the occasion to lay down the gauntlet at a fraught financial time for the Holy See. Facing a major pension funding shortage and a projected 50 million euro (USD 61 million) deficit this year, Francis has ordered salary cuts from 3 per cent to 10 per cent for Vatican employees, both lay and religious, and paused seniority bonuses for two years. Francis has vowed not to fire anyone to offset the economic crisis created by COVID-19 and the pandemic-related shuttering of one of the Holy See's main sources of revenue, ticket sales

'Hitchiker's guide to democratic palsy'

Book review of Despite the State: Why India Lets Its People Down and How They Cope

News Corp strucks a global news deal with Alphabet's Google

The companies will develop a subscription platform, share advertising revenue through Google's ad technology services, build out audio journalism and develop video journalism by YouTube

Former FT editor names Business Standard among gold-standard publications

Lionel Barber, the former editor of the Financial Times, London, from 2005-2020, spoke of all these and more in an interview podcast on the Indian Journalism Review

Australia pushes laws to make Facebook, Google pay news outlets for content

Australia finalised plans to make Facebook and Google pay its media outlets for news content, a world-first move aimed at protecting independent journalism

Arnab Goswami's arrest: Will the saga lead to introspection in the media?

The bigger lesson in this saga is for the Indian media to recognise the dangers of becoming the handmaiden of the Establishment

Press Association condemns sealing of newspaper office in Srinagar

The Press Association on Wednesday condemned the "abrupt sealing" of the Srinagar office of Kashmir Times newspaper and demanded its immediate opening

Britain's Independent news website plans India, China editions

The Independent's been able to grow during the pandemic by licensing content and other digital services, while reducing other costs and keeping overall headcount low

Harold Evans: A trailblazing editor who set journalism's gold standard

Evans died of congestive heart failure in New York, according to his wife Tina Brown

SC says need to regulate electronic media; govt bats for press freedom

There is a need to regulate the electronic media as most of the channels are running for TRPs, leading to more sensationalism, SC said even as the Centre batted for journalistic freedom

James Murdoch resigns from News Corp's board over editorial differences

New York-based News Corp also publishes major papers in Australia and the UK and owns the HarperCollins book publisher

Three Indian journalists win Pulitzer Prize 2020 in feature photography

Yasin and Khan are journalists based in Srinagar, while Anand is based in Jammu.

With facts without fear: Why responsible journalism is powerful in crisis

To mark the World Press Freedom Day on May 3, journalists talk about how upholding the profession becomes more important than ever

Job losses, attack on press freedom: Journalism hit hard by coronavirus

Three out of four journalists have faced restrictions, obstruction or intimidation while covering the coronavirus crisis