Community Media

IN MEDIA WATCH BRIEFS |16/03/2018

The hilarious 'ABVP, why so creepy' song, needs to be edited to include AIDMK, it appears. The party’s Health Minister C Vijayabaskar upped the creepy quotient when he persisted in responding to a woman journalist's questions about a late night meeting of party MLAs with compliments on her spectacles and..

Lazy bums, happy to copy off Facebook walls

BY SHUBHAM VERMA| IN COMMUNITY MEDIA |20/07/2017

A Facebook post by a Delhi writer is stolen by a plagiarist and then published by journalists too lazy to check or to find their own stories

New policy dismays Community Radio activists

BY GEETA SESHU| IN COMMUNITY MEDIA |07/02/2017

While stonewalling their demand to broadcast news, the I&B Ministry has said CR stations can air AIR bulletins instead.

Community Radio: give it back to the community--III

BY DEVI LEENA BOSE| IN COMMUNITY MEDIA |03/01/2017

A decade since the last guidelines were issued, it is time to take stock of the situation and change the guidelines to make the processes more transparent

Community Radio: here is the community!

BY R SREEDHER| IN COMMUNITY MEDIA |30/11/2016

The authors of the CR study have used purposive, not random sampling, with the sole intention of bringing negativity to the CR movement in the country.

Community Radio – where is the community? Part II

BY ANUSHI AGRAWAL AND DEVI LEENA BOSE| IN COMMUNITY MEDIA |27/11/2016

How state governments, politicians, and indirect corporate interests have wormed their way into community radio stations, violating the spirit of the original intention.

Community radio—where is the community?

BY DEVI LEENA BOSE| IN COMMUNITY MEDIA |28/10/2016

Investigating community radio ownership--Part I. Out of 196 CR stations how many have been captured by government or corporate interests?

Barefoot Journalists

BY BHARAT DOGRA| IN COMMUNITY MEDIA |26/10/2016

When the media ignore tribals and their problems, why not train some of them to inundate the media with press releases so that their views are aired?

Cover your ears--community radio is polluting us!

BY Sajan Venniyoor| IN COMMUNITY MEDIA |18/10/2016

….or so it would seem from shocked monitors who say community radio stations aired ‘’obscene’ and ‘vulgar’ content without defining what this means.

The press club with a heart

BY TERESA REHMAN| IN COMMUNITY MEDIA |07/09/2016

Through its news portal, Moirabari Press Club in Assam helps farmers, women and students by giving them the news and information they need

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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.