As it clamours to add oversight of television and Internet to its portfolio, we need to see what it did to regulate the print media last year.
COVERING THE STATES- PART IV: Prioritizing politics, crime and sports, major English dailies have shown little concern for other big areas.
COVERING THE STATES- PART III: Political personalities drive political stories with Mamata Banerjee receiving 33.7 percent of all political coverage in all five newspapers.
COVERING THE STATES- Part II: Two months of monitoring national newspapers shows that 76 per cent of the total sports coverage was on IPL stories.
COVERING THE STATES- Part I: A two month scan of states coverage in 5 newspapers shows that The Hindu does a better job than the others.
This list includes IRS figures (the Indian Readership Survey is conducted every year for four quarters by the Media Research User's Council), circulation figures from Registrar for Newspapers of India, breakup of circulation figures from Audit Bureau
This list includes TAM figures from TAM Media Research, list of FM channels from the website of Ministry of Information and Broadcasting, radio industry figures from FICCI- KPMG reports and list of AIR stations from the websites of All India Radio an
This list includes TAM figures from TAM Media Research, list of TV channels from the website of Ministry of Information and Broadcasting, data on cable operators released by Telecom Regulatory Authority of India, the television industry figures from
Reprimanding news channels in the form of censures and asking them to air apologies are not enough to put a noose around erring channels.
How is self regulation of television in India working? Does it have the capacity to rein in wayward channels? Do the self regulatory mechanisms set up by the industry have bite? Or do they merely rap offenders on the knuckles?