Trending on twitter but silence elsewhere
IN MEDIA WATCH BRIEFS|11/03/2018
A farmers' long march with the #KisanLongMarch has been trending on top spot on Twitter all afternoon. Thousands of farmers have marched more than 200 KMs to Mumbai to demand loan waivers and the transfer of forest land to tillers. The Mumbai traffic police have had to issue a traffic advisory too...
GM food issue: PCI orders retraction
BY NEHA SAIGAL| IN MEDIA PRACTICE |01/11/2017
The Financial Express is forced to apologise for ad hominem insinuations about activist Kavita Kuruganti
Re-examining the Mandsaur agitation
BY ANKITA PANDEY| IN MEDIA MONITORING |28/06/2017
A farmers’ agitation that turned violent resulting in six deaths in Mandsaur, MP, prompted a detailed analysis in both the Nai Dunia and the Indian Express
Do farmers disturb credit culture more than industry?
BY PRABHAKAR KULKARNI| IN REGIONAL MEDIA |17/04/2017
Maharashtra’s farm daily Agrowon offered a counter to the SBI chief, the RBI governor, and English newspapers critical of the UP farm loan waiver.
IN MEDIA WATCH BRIEFS |01/02/2017
After the FM said in his Budget speech that 10 lakh farm ponds would be completed across the country under the MGNREGA scheme by March this year, Ravish Kumar on NDTV India took off on this in his budget analysis programme, for a good ten minutes or more. That is..
Why the drought is not The Big Story
BY JYOTI PUNWANI| IN OPINION |23/05/2016
If the media’s drought coverage had been relentless, it would have forced governments to act. By being sporadic, it failed to impact.
Tell us and we'll tell the world
IN MEDIA WATCH BRIEFS |07/02/2016
Some kinds of sponsored trips for journalists are not a bad idea. In January the Sikkim government took journalists from Delhi to study how the state had become India’s first fully organic farming state. The trip was meant to coincide with the prime minister's visit to Sikkim to announce this..
BY MAANVENDER SINGH| IN MEDIA PRACTICE |27/10/2015
No one cares about the profound farming crisis in Punjab. Look at how the media have covered the prolonged agitation and all you find is chaff,
How digitisation impacts farm telecasts
BY sevanti ninan| IN MEDIA PRACTICE |23/07/2014 ?Kisan shows are put out on terrestrial transmitters when many villages have switched to cable or DTH.
Is farm broadcasting going waste?
BY sevanti ninan| IN BOOKS |18/07/2014 ?When current farm telecasts miss their targets on account of power cuts and wrong scheduling, is a Rs 100 crore farm channel going to help,
IN MEDIA WATCH BRIEFS |29/08/2013
On Monday, Indian Express carried an interview with Sharad Pawar covering 3/4ths of a page, wherein he as usual, pushed for GM crops. On Tuesday, the TOI carried a speculative report saying the government would push for GM crops in the Lok Sabha on Wednesday. On the same day, this..
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IN MEDIA WATCH BRIEFS |28/05/2013
NDTV has landed in a PR crisis with launch of 'Improving Lives', a new series on its three channels, on development opportunities in India in partnership with Mahyco Monsanto Biotech India. The company is infamous for pushing its genetically modified seed varieties. NDTV's decision to associate with the company comes at a time when..
MPs' report refutes TOI's BT Cotton stories
BY PARANJOY GUHA THAKURTA| IN MEDIA PRACTICE |31/08/2012
Buried in a parliamentary committee report is a refutation by villagers of TOI's controversial stories on BT cotton's virtues, published in 2008 and reprinted in the paper as paid news in 2011.
Got a plant, will republish for a fee
BY Manu Moudgil| IN MEDIA PRACTICE |06/09/2011
The Times of India reruns a three-year-old story on Bt Cotton without any updates as paid news. It is described as a consumer connect initiative. Why did Mahyco Monsanto Biotech get this extolling story republished?
Competing fasts, competing dailies
BY K Sriramulu| IN MEDIA PRACTICE |27/12/2010
Sakshi and Eenadu are priming up their political mentors as they report on farm suicides in Andhra Pradesh.
BY Nishant Upadhyay| IN OPINION |31/08/2010
Peepli [Live] has ended up trivializing a very grave issue and fails to highlight the real plight of the farmers or the dimensions of the agrarian crisis. ??
BY sevanti ninan| IN MEDIA PRACTICE |15/08/2010
A farmer is about to commit suicide! TV reporters, politicians from the bottom to the top, and finally the agriculture ministry in Delhi all become caught up in the rip-roaring chase that follows. ??
Supreme Court rejects SLAPP suit against eco –activists filed by Pesticides lobby
IN MEDIA FREEDOM |04/08/2010
Rejecting a defamation case on 11 activists filed by the Association of Pesticide Manufacturing Companies, the apex court upheld their freedom of speech and said their report was in public interest.
BY Prabhakar Kulkarni| IN MEDIA PRACTICE |24/06/2009
Marathi newspapers expose corruption and find 60 percent of the employees in Maharashtra¿s agriculture department are unqualified,
Careless media, puzzled reader
IN MEDIA PRACTICE |19/06/2008
Was the victim a farmer or not? Was he killed or did he become victim of a stray bullet?
BY Frederick Noronha| IN MEDIA PRACTICE |03/07/2007
Unfortunately, most of our mediamen lack a working understanding of the relations between soil, water, forest and water conservation.
BY ranjan| IN DIGITAL MEDIA |06/10/2006
aAqua is a platform where farmers post their questions and get appropriate answers from experts within 24 to 48 hours.
BY Frederick Noronha| IN COMMUNITY MEDIA |25/03/2006
The station is supported by an engineering college and broadcasts for four hours each morning, with a similar rebroadcast each evening.
BY Prabhakar Kulkarni| IN MEDIA PRACTICE |27/05/2005
The daily which is priced at one rupee covers wide variety of subjects relating to agriculture.
‘Media lacks critical analysis on GM’
IN MEDIA PRACTICE |27/05/2005
News stories in the media of developing nations often lack critical analysis of the issues at stake and rarely represent the farmerøs view.
How a GM debate eludes the Indian media
BY Keya Acharya| IN MEDIA PRACTICE |21/05/2005
Journalists either lack access to information about GM crop trials or don`t understand the issues at stake.
IN MEDIA WATCH BRIEFS |16/06/2004
Krishi Darshan, the age-old rural development and farm programme on Doordarshan is becoming very versatile indeed. On June 16 the programme began with sugarcane farming, but then went on to a lady sporting what looked like a string of pearls, who anch..
BY suchitra| IN COMMUNITY MEDIA |13/02/2004
A low- profile, but innovative and imaginative, farm journal is very popular among cash-crop growers in southern Karnataka and northern Kerala
Hunger, malnutrition, and the media
BY dreze| IN MEDIA PRACTICE |10/03/2003
When The Media Abdicates, The Government Abdicates
IN MEDIA PRACTICE |31/08/2002
From plough to pen: agriculturists promote farm journalism
BY Frederick Noronha| IN MEDIA PRACTICE |28/03/2002
