AMAN MALIK : Articles

BY AMAN MALIK| IN MEDIA BUSINESS |09/03/2016

NDTV’s expansion into a digital business and e-commerce could rescue a TV venture which has been losing money for years.

News apps: DailyHunt and Inshorts blaze a trail

BY AMAN MALIK| IN DIGITAL MEDIA |02/03/2016

NDTV is still the leader but these two apps, with more than 11 million downloads, are snapping at its heels.

“The government started to give up control”

BY AMAN MALIK| IN MEDIA BUSINESS |24/02/2016

Twenty five years after the 1991 liberalisation The Hoot interviews leading media business players on how it shaped India’s media explosion.

“Liberalisation allows you to play in a much bigger field”

BY AMAN MALIK| IN MEDIA BUSINESS |19/02/2016

Twenty five years after the 1991 liberalisation The Hoot interviews leading media business players on how it shaped India’s media explosion.

The Hindu’s troubled financials

BY AMAN MALIK| IN MEDIA BUSINESS |15/02/2016

Over the last two years the paper and its parent company have been increasingly in the news for their human resource and financial management,

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Amazon resisting voluntary censorship

The new term for self censorship is voluntary censorship, as proposed by companies like Netflix and Hotstar. ET reports that streaming video service Amazon Prime is opposing a move by its peers to adopt a voluntary censorship code in anticipation of the Indian government coming up with its own rules. Amazon is resisting because it fears that it may alienate paying subscribers.

Let the games begin

Clearly, the run to the 2019 elections is on. A journalist received a call from someone saying they were from Aajtak channel and were conducting a survey, asking whom she was going to vote for in 2019. On being told that her vote was secret, the caller assumed she wasn't going to vote for 'Modiji'. The caller, a woman, also didn't identify herself. A month or two earlier the same journalist received a call, this time from a man, asking if she was going to vote for the BSP.