How Gandhi led Niranjan Takle to the Judge Loya story
BY JYOTI PUNWANI| IN MEDIA PRACTICE |06/04/2018
At a commemorative meeting in Mumbai the journalist who did the story for Caravan talks about how Loya’s family decided that he should be the one to tell their story.
Gag order against Caravan vacated
IN MEDIA WATCH BRIEFS |22/02/2018
The Delhi High Court has vacated the injunction order against Caravan Magazine in the 50 Crore defamation case filed by IIPM founder Arindam Chaudhuri. Chaudhari had filed the case after the magazine published an article titled "Sweet smell of success – How Arindam Chaudhuri made a fortune out of the aspirations and insecurities of..
The Challenge of Editing the EPW-I
BY C. RAMMANOHAR REDDY| IN OPINION |10/08/2017
In 68 years, the Economic and Political Weekly has gone through significant changes, mirroring the changes in India. Its uniqueness cannot be over-stated..
The Challenge of Editing the EPW-II
BY C. RAMMANOHAR REDDY| IN OPINION |10/08/2017
How did it maintain a fine balance between political commentary and academic research? How did it cope with trends in academia?
Romila Thapar and others: averse to public debate?
BY AJAZ ASHRAF| IN OPINION |23/07/2017
The EPW controversy shows that India’s public intellectuals wish to pay a minimal price for speaking out.
EPW Chaos: Why shoot the messenger?
BY ANUP KUMAR| IN OPINION |22/07/2017
If the members of the board were concerned about protecting the academic research character of the journal they chose the wrong person to serve as the editor.
Chronicle of a death not foretold
BY AUNOHITA MOJUMDAR| IN MEDIA FREEDOM |14/11/2016
The editor’s farewell piece from ‘Fact and Fiction’ the last issue of Himal in its current incarnation.
IN MEDIA WATCH BRIEFS |06/10/2016
The Outlook Group killed several birds with one stone last night (Oct. 5): it cashed in on the social media craze in the country by instituting the Lloyd-Outlook Social Media (OSM) Awards in a bunch of interesting categories including MLA of the year. It made up to the BJP by having..
IN MEDIA WATCH BRIEFS |23/09/2016
Media fantasies about punishing Pakistan get more juvenile by the day. India Today's latest cover story is called 'How to punish Pakistan' with a cover picture of the Pakistan flag being wrung. It contains graphic depictions of options the country has: a covert operation to eliminate JeM chief Maulana Masoor Azhar in..
IN MEDIA WATCH BRIEFS |16/09/2016
Pakistan had blocked the India Today website earlier this week after a recent issue of the news magazine carried a picture of Pakistan army chief General Raheel Sharif with a photoshopped slap mark on his face. The picture, which appeared on the cover of the September 5 issue of India Today with the headline..
IN MEDIA WATCH BRIEFS |31/08/2016
Is India Today competing with Times Now? Its latest cover could have been designed by Arnab Goswami, featuring as it does a photograph of the Pak Army chief with the imprint of a slap on his face. Says the text,"By upping the ante, the Indian prime minister had slapped the Pakistan Army,..
Outlook refuses to be muzzled by FIR over its story
BY GEETA SESHU| IN MEDIA FREEDOM |10/08/2016
The filing of a complaint against an Outlook investigation on child trafficking in Assam is the latest attempt to silence the media
IN MEDIA WATCH BRIEFS |27/01/2016
The confession of the constable in the Chungkham Sanjit case also helps two vindicate two journalists who have faced repeated enquiries since then. Six and a half years ago Tehelka magazine carried photographs of a man being shot dead in an alleged encounter, following which the then correspondent who procured..
IN MEDIA WATCH BRIEFS |07/02/2014
After the Caravan's latest issue published an interview in which serial bomb blasts accused Swami Aseemanand claimed RSS top leaders, including its chief Mohan Bhagwat, knew of the conspiracy, the magazine alleges that their Delhi and Mumbai offices have been getting threatening phone calls. Today a mob of Hindu Sena..
BY A HOOT study| IN BOOKS |30/01/2014
Journalists themselves as victims and perpetrators of sexual violence is new territory for the media to handle, and balance has been difficult to maintain.
Lessons from the Outlook Group closures
BY sevanti ninan| IN OPINION |08/08/2013
Even after post-closure confabulations with management, editors of these magazines are no wiser as to what really sparked the decision.
'Let's go to the crushing zone!'
BY Neha Dixit| IN MEDIA PRACTICE |19/06/2012
Tehelka journalist Tarun Sehrawat's death has not just opened a can of worms but also exposed the callous attitude of media organisations,
Tehelka’s election-time tinderbox
BY sevanti ninan| IN OPINION |25/10/2007
Headlines Today assumes the totally out-of-character role of a platform for politically charged investigation.
BY Womens Feature Service| IN MEDIA PRACTICE |30/05/2007
Around 400,000 Muslim teen girls in the US were looking for a lifestyle. magazine in keeping within their value system.
The Magpie-Ladakh’s new weekly newspaper
IN REGIONAL MEDIA |12/06/2006
Tehelka exposes paedophilia in Goa
IN MEDIA PRACTICE |10/08/2004
India’s investigative paper did a sting on Goa’s worst-kept secret -- paedophilia or child-sex abuse along the state’s tourist beaches.
In Defence of Communalism Combat
IN MEDIA PRACTICE |11/12/2004
As a columnist Tavleen Singh is proving to be just the opposite of what she used to be as a journalist
BY Guha| IN MEDIA PRACTICE |07/03/2004
A magazine that represents an emphatic triumph of content over form has lost an editor.
BY Vij| IN MEDIA PRACTICE |16/02/2004
The Press must represent the public: Tejpal
BY Noronha| IN MEDIA PRACTICE |05/01/2004
"At the heart of the paper are two Cøs. Crusading, constructive journalism. We will not only expose, and knock those doing wrong, but also appreciate those doing the right thing."
BY dutt| IN REGIONAL MEDIA |17/11/2003
Among Punjab’s little magazines, Preetlari turn 70 with a woman editor at its helm.
An activist magazine completes a decade
BY Jyoti Punwani| IN MEDIA PRACTICE |01/09/2003
I wish the day would come when there wouldn’t be the need for Communalism Combat.
No proof, no bail, Tehelka reporter rots in jail
IN MEDIA FREEDOM |12/08/2002
Six months after the Tehelka sting
BY sevanti ninan| IN MEDIA PRACTICE |19/04/2002
