BY Indira Akoijam| IN BOOKS |17/09/2012
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.
BY Indira Akoijam| IN BOOKS |08/08/2012
COVERING THE STATES- PART IV: Prioritizing politics, crime and sports, major English dailies have shown little concern for other big areas.
BY Indira Akoijam| IN BOOKS |07/08/2012
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.
BY Indira Akoijam| IN BOOKS |23/07/2012
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.
BY Indira Akoijam| IN BOOKS |16/07/2012
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.
BY Indira Akoijam| IN STATISTICS |25/06/2012
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
BY Indira Akoijam| IN STATISTICS |04/04/2012
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
BY Indira Akoijam| IN STATISTICS |04/04/2012
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
BY Indira Akoijam| IN BOOKS |10/02/2012
Reprimanding news channels in the form of censures and asking them to air apologies are not enough to put a noose around erring channels.
BY Indira Akoijam| IN BOOKS |10/02/2012
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?
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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.                   

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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