Kid glove treatment for one’s own
BY ANINDYA RAI VERMAN| IN MEDIA PRACTICE |31/08/2015
Every time media barons themselves are in the news for all the wrong reasons, the public never gets the answers it deserves.
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The worst way to get Dawood?
BY ANINDYA RAI VERMAN| IN MEDIA PRACTICE |24/08/2015
Do media exclusives, based on evidence from the security agencies, run counter to Narendra Modi's insistence on the need for 'secrecy' to get Dawood Ibrahim?
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Unnao 'madness'
BY ANINDYA RAI VERMAN| IN MEDIA PRACTICE |25/10/2013
As the Archaeological Survey of India continues with its excavation work at Unnao for the hidden gold, international press is having a field day reporting the progress.
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Myanmar media still under siege
BY ANINDYA RAI VERMAN| IN MEDIA FREEDOM |16/09/2012
Although Myanmar's quasi-civilian government has ended"direct press censorship", it's not yet time for celebration.
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Politics, sports, and headlines
BY ANINDYA RAI VERMAN| IN MEDIA PRACTICE |27/06/2012
While cricket terminology is often used in writing political headlines, other sports are yet to have that privilege.
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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.                 

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