BY N P Chekkutty| IN REGIONAL MEDIA |06/08/2012
T. Venugopalan rewrote the rules of the craft and brought them in tune with changing times.
BY N P Chekkutty| IN LAW AND POLICY |10/07/2012
Several media houses have been dragged to court over the coverage given to T.P. Chandrasekharan murder case.
BY N P Chekkutty| IN MEDIA PRACTICE |03/04/2012
Internal divisions within the newspaper agents' association, the uncompromising attitude of major newspaper groups, as well as public resentment brought the strike to an ignominious conclusion,
BY N P Chekkutty| IN MEDIA PRACTICE |28/06/2008
Thejas was a newspaper being launched by a Muslim organization dubbed extremist by the mainstream press and there had to be a keen and clear understanding of what was going to be its political and ideological standpoint.
BY N P Chekkutty| IN REGIONAL MEDIA |28/02/2008
Muslims, who constitute 50 per cent of all non-resident Keralites, take a keen interest in US politics and its implications for Muslim nations.
BY N P Chekkutty| IN MEDIA FREEDOM |30/12/2007
The arrest and the consequent developments raise a number of disturbing questions.
BY N P Chekkutty| IN MEDIA PRACTICE |23/11/2007
Has the incessant anti-vaccination campaign carried out by a section of Malayalam media led to a drop in immunization coverage?
BY N P Chekkutty| IN REGIONAL MEDIA |13/10/2007
The case was a high profile one because those who appeared in it as prosecution and defendants were tall figures in Kerala’s public life. M N Vijayan (left)died soon after the verdict.
BY N P Chekkutty| IN REGIONAL MEDIA |01/08/2007
A Muslim NRI entrepreneur gains control of a 120-year-old newspaper owned by the Roman Catholic church in Kerala.
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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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