"I certainly object to canards masquerading as news, being published in the newspapers to deliberately malign an individual."
Congress MLA Venod Sharma has the advantage of being the proprietor of a newspaper his family has started, Aaj Samaj. He gets generous coverage in his own newspaper. And his paper is now campaigning against paid news.
He makes money for them, as a monitoring of news clips and their advertising value in April this year, show. This document highlights the number of news clips carried and their equivalent ad value on various television Channels.
An EGM of Kasturi and Sons passes resolutions permitting the professionalisation of the 132-year-old newspaper, but a Company Law Board order restrains their implementation. The member says the proposal to remove all the family directors is not in
Interesting indicators emerge from the mandatory March declarations. About the investments made by the Ambani brothers in media, and about the presence of companies registered in Mauritius in the shareholding of media companies.
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Two awards for journalists to be presented by the Mumbai Press Club next week had been sponsored by DB Realty whose director was arrested on Tuesday in connection with the 2G scam. The club has now dropped DB Realty’s name from the invite.
The Asian Age suddenly filed a news story on a June 2009 report by a non-governmental international panel on climate change. Why?
President Mahinda Rajapaksa does not seem inclined to be particularly magnanimous towards the media following his re-election by a handsome majority.
"I narrowed it down to a handful of people who have accounted for 30,000 Iran related tweets in the past few days."