BY KALPANA SHARMA| IN OPINION |30/06/2014
Sometimes the press shows up in full strength at an event, asks lively questions --- and then nothing appears the next day.
BY KALPANA SHARMA| IN MEDIA PRACTICE |22/11/2013
The incident reflects on the state of the Indian media as a whole and its attitude towards sexual harassment at the workplace and how it is to be handled,
BY KALPANA SHARMA| IN MEDIA PRACTICE |25/08/2013
In its desire to give saturation coverage to such crimes, TOI led the way. But there were four oversights that ought to have been caught by alert editors.
BY KALPANA SHARMA| IN MEDIA FREEDOM |02/03/2013
So why did this issue not generate more discussion in the print media? Could it be linked to the fact that IIPM is a generous advertiser,
BY KALPANA SHARMA| IN OPINION |31/01/2013
News channels were quick to brand Ashis Nandy as casteist, but newsrooms themselves are staffed overwhelmingly by upper castes,
BY KALPANA SHARMA| IN OPINION |17/08/2012
The apparent ability of the media to make or break movements has generated unreal expectations among the public.
BY KALPANA SHARMA| IN OPINION |11/07/2012
The media are guilty of blindly reporting the motivated leaks by the police about Pinki Pramanik's sex.
BY KALPANA SHARMA| IN OPINION |07/06/2012
There is a difference between two toilets and two toilet blocks. There is a difference between the budget for sanitary repairs in a government office building and the sanitation budget of the government of India.
BY KALPANA SHARMA| IN OPINION |26/11/2011
Media makes personalities. It also breaks them. These last two weeks have been an illustration of how this happens and the 'personality' is Anna Hazare.
BY KALPANA SHARMA| IN OPINION |26/10/2011
The health of the Indian media is supposedly robust but the state of healthcare coverage in the Indian media is almost comatose. It snaps out of that coma only when 'health' and 'wealth' meet.
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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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