Govt ad allocations increase in the year preceding an election, there is a good year ahead for the regional press.
It took 2 years and 7 months to obtain ownership data on media companies which the Ministry of Information and Broadcasting routinely collects.
There was also a fourth interview with a memorable story, though it happened entirely off-camera.
NDA government cuts ads to the Indian Express second year running, and leading Hindi newspapers get more by way of advertising than leading English ones.
The post-Emergency Press Council, reconstituted in 1978, was a taller body than its current avatar,
Facebook declines as a source of news for users, WhatsApp picks up, and trust in news across nearly 40 countries covered in the report averages 44 per cent.
Ravish Kumar’s chronicling of fear and hate in the times of The Great Leader and his IT Cell.
Reflections on working with Dulat and Durrani and what it took to make their experiences readable and gripping
Free Speech in 2018: Murder, violence, threats, gags, and policy clampdowns – that’s how the year started.
With party ads playing a big role, the issue for the media is how to ensure a level playing field so that money does not decide the election outcome. But civil society placed ads too.