Sushmita Malaviya : Articles

BY Sushmita Malaviya| IN COMMUNITY MEDIA |08/06/2010

Child Radio Reporter, a joint Jadavpur University-Unicef initiative, empowers children to talk about their everyday lives -- focussing on subjects like child labour, human trafficking, broken marriages and their effect on children, and alcohol-relate

Community radio in Nagappattinam

BY Sushmita Malaviya| IN COMMUNITY MEDIA |27/07/2009

The community radio station was inaugurated on July 12 2009 and covers a community within 10 kilometers around Vilunthamavadi. "When we had the funds we did not have the licence and now we have the licence but no funds,"

Getting it right with Community Radio

BY Sushmita Malaviya| IN COMMUNITY MEDIA |18/04/2007

Technology and specialised training of grassroots workers pave the way for relevant content creation.

On muster rolls in the Hindi heartland

BY Sushmita Malaviya| IN MEDIA PRACTICE |12/07/2004

In Madhya Pradesh and Chhattisgarh the concept of women journalists with permanent jobs still does not exist.

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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.