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The Indian media is witnessing an explosive situation with newspaper and magazine criculations increasing in great numbers and television news channels----in both English and regional languages---going up by the day. Internet news portals, too, are recording a good number of hits. Journalism, then, holds tremendous for both seasoned and budding journalists. However, behind every promise, there lurk dangers and temptations, which must be scrupulously avoided if the basic values of the profession are to be safeguarded. Otherwise, the relentless spotlight of criticism will turn on journalism and its practitioners.
21st Century Journalism in India is a path-breaking book that looks at the practices and theories of journalism in the 21st century. This collection of writings by practising journalists is perhaps unique in that they have turned the spotlight on their own profession.
About Author :
Nilini Rajan is presently Associate Professor at the Asian College of Jounalism in Chennai. She obtained her Ph.D. in Social Communications, specializing in Political Philosophy, at the Catholic University of Louvain, Belgium. Her thesis, 'Within the Fragments-----A Non-Holistic Approach to Indian Culture', was published the same year. She has been a Homi Bhabha Fellow (1991-93), a Fellow of the Indian Council for Social Science Research (1993-65), and has held visiting fellowships at the Hastings Centre, New York (1996), and at the universities of Oxford and Edinburgh (1997), among others. She has also worked for the Economic Times, Mumbai.
Contents :
Acknowledgements
Introduction Nalini Rajan
PART I: REPRESENTING THE UNREPRESENTED
The Gender Factor
The Problem with Media Reportage of Queer Lives
At Least Some Childern get 'Mosambi'
The Unwritten Writing: Dalits and the Media
Dalit Murasu :Surviving a Difficult Decade
'What is the Spanish Word for Appeasement?'
Prophetic Misreading
PART II: THE PLURALITY OF PRACTICE
Economics through Journalism
Media Freedom and the Right to Privacy
Exposing the Media Spiel on Rural Women
Writing Science: Breaking the Language Barrier
The Arts Beat! Feel the Heat !
Writing on Art
Pun Job, Sind, Gujarat, Maratha: Humour in Indian Journalism
PART III: MEDIA IN PERSPECTIVE
The Information Revolution and the Emerging Media Ecology
In your Face! Teaching Broadcast Journalism
My Days at Sun TV
Prescribed Truth, Licensed Freedom : The Press in Post-Mahathir Malaysia
When the News Desk Makes the News
Covering Photojournalism
The Relevance of the Metro Section
PART IV: FUTURE TRENDS
Journalism: The Practice and the Potential
Citizen Jounalism and the New Media
Online Journalism in India: 2000 to 2005 and Beyond
Caught in the Net
Blogging---A New Paradigm in Journalism
Tell Me a Story: Writing and Teaching Narrative
India: A Billion Testimonies Now
About the Editor and Contributors