Swarajya's slander in Nagaland
BY VIKAS KUMAR| IN MEDIA PRACTICE |09/04/2018
An amazing article accusing former CM T.R. Zeliang and the Baptist Church of Nagaland of funding terror drew a threat of legal action and a denial of Swarajya's claims from the Army.
Naga media, the elections and ‘solutions’
BY VIKAS KUMAR| IN REGIONAL MEDIA |18/03/2018
Naga newspapers’ unwillingness to engage with the real issues plaguing the state was on display in the recent elections.
Role of advertising in the Nagaland polls
BY VIKAS KUMAR| IN SPECIAL REPORTS |13/03/2018
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.
Waging identity wars in the Nagaland press
BY VIKAS KUMAR| IN MEDIA PRACTICE |08/03/2018
Naga citizens, pastors and reverends included, took to the op-ed pages to shape the election discourse in the newspapers.
Coverage of Naga women’s reservation agitation-Part I
BY VIKAS KUMAR| IN MEDIA MONITORING |14/06/2017
How the “national” media covered it. Both Hindu and ToI chose to give more space to violence, disruption, and political intrigue in their limited coverage.
Naga papers: lots of comment, little reporting
BY VIKAS KUMAR| IN MEDIA MONITORING |14/06/2017
Covering Nagaland’s anti-women’s reservation agitation - Part II. Local coverage lacked in investigation and ground interviews.
IN MEDIA WATCH BRIEFS |16/10/2016
Lalbiakthanga Pachuau, editor of the Mizoram newspaper, Zoram Tlangau, has been declared at age 90 to be the oldest working journalist in the country at a function held in Aizawl. The Nagaland Post reports that Pachuau, a war veteran-turned-journalist, wrote his first article on May 16, 1953 in Zoram Thupuan..
BY MORUNG EXPRESS NEWS| IN MEDIA FREEDOM |10/05/2016
“...Externalities like economic needs, political compulsion, socio-cultural and religious demands have narrowed press freedom in Nagaland”
Unlawful to report militant statements
BY THE HOOT| IN MEDIA FREEDOM |10/11/2015
The Assam Rifles warns editors in Nagaland that they will be breaking the law if they do so.
Assam Rifles:infected with Foot-in-mouth Disease!
BY CHARLES CHASIE| IN OPINION |19/11/2015
Through decades of armed conflict, the media in Nagaland have been playing their role intrepidly and with as much fairness and objectivity their situation allows them.
Dimapur lynching: a travesty of reporting
IN MEDIA PRACTICE |06/05/2015
The way Nagaland's English newspapers covered the events leading up to, and including, the lynching of an 'illegal Bangladeshi immigrant' suggests that they were complicit in the hatred mongering.
IN REGIONAL MEDIA |19/01/2015
A Naga newspaper doesn't merely inform readers, it also helps preserve the tribe's culture and identity.
First Nagamese daily completes a year
BY VIKAS KUMAR| IN REGIONAL MEDIA |03/12/2014
Despite being the lingua franca of Nagaland, Nagamese has been ignored and neglected as a pidgin language.
Naga editor's book banned by tribal body
BY SUBIR BHAUMIK| IN MEDIA FREEDOM |21/11/2014
Upset with Monalisa Changkija's new book, the tribal body Ao Senden has banned it.
IN DIGITAL MEDIA |19/07/2010
The Hoot excerpts a passage from Maya Ranganathan and Usha M. Rodrigues’ Indian Media in a Globalised World.
IN COMMUNITY MEDIA |14/07/2010
The most watched channel is Arirang, shops are overflowing with Korean goods and the youth of Nagaland flaunt hair styled on Korean actors and actresses.
You know you’re a Naga journalist if…
BY AL NGULLIE| IN OPINION |03/06/2010
You do a story on Chief Minister Neiphiu Rio. And your heading is always that eternal liner: "Rio’s plea for peace and development."
‘Time to Introspect’: commentaries in the Naga media
BY Subarno Chattarji| IN REGIONAL MEDIA |27/03/2010
Media and Nagaland--Part III. While reporters voices are largely absent in Naga media there are vibrant editorial and citizen commentaries that enhance the public sphere in myriad ways.
‘Nagas at crossroads reporting conflict in Nagaland
BY Subarno Chattarji| IN MEDIA PRACTICE |19/03/2010
Media in Nagaland-Part II. Reporters reproduce terms used by the underground without quotation marks, which highlights the extent to which the linguistic frames of the underground are normalized through their circulation in mainstream media discourse
Conflict and reconciliation in Naga newspapers
BY Subarno Chattarji| IN REGIONAL MEDIA |15/03/2010
Media in Nagaland - Part I. The making and the un-making of the Naga Nation narrating conflict in the Naga English media.
BY Sevanti Ninan with Athili Anthony Sapriina| IN MEDIA PRACTICE |23/01/2010
An outstanding feature of the conflict framing seen in newspapers here is the fact that it is rooted in Christian theology.
