NIVEDITA KHANDEKAR : Articles

Yamuna and AoL: selective environmentalism?

BY NIVEDITA KHANDEKAR| IN MEDIA PRACTICE |10/03/2016

The frenzied media outrage over the event is great but where were the channels all these years when others were guilty too?

Doesn't climate change affect Hindi readers?

BY NIVEDITA KHANDEKAR| IN MEDIA MONITORING |30/12/2015

A comparative analysis of coverage from and related to the Paris summit shows that Hindi newspapers gave substantially less coverage than the English press.

Anatomy of a journalist's murder

BY NIVEDITA KHANDEKAR| IN MEDIA PRACTICE |27/06/2015

Was Sandeep Kothari a journalist, a blackmailer as the police and the accused claim, or an RTI activist?

Neglecting the environment at our peril

BY NIVEDITA KHANDEKAR| IN REGIONAL MEDIA |16/09/2014

With Jammu & Kashmir deluged, should the media be doing more to cover the environmental issues that culminate in these disasters?

Shiv Sena MPs and the roti fiasco

BY NIVEDITA KHANDEKAR| IN MEDIA PRACTICE |25/07/2014

Was the communal aspect a belated discovery of the national media? Was there a broader context to the incident which explains the very different reporting by the Marathi press,

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Amazon resisting voluntary censorship

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.

Let the games begin

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.