Thursday, March 31, 2005

Good News or Bad?

believe there are new newspapers hitting the stands in Mumbai soon. one from the Old Lady's stable, other from her Delhi competitor and a third from a tv-print synergy group. there is movement in the profession, journalists are shifting jobs and allegiances, often for very high salaries. on the face of it, sounds like a good thing happening. but is there some underside to all this that we are missing out on? The flagship paper of the city had rolled out a second paper, much like they intend to do now, only to scare and later finish off the competition from The Post. History seems to repeat itself...
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Wednesday, March 30, 2005

Women in Journalism

There has been an enormous amount of talk and written word on how the Op/Ed pages in America are largely devoid of women columnists. There was also a survey that showed that the situation on mainstream news television in the US is no better. I wonder if we are any better off in India? Is there a study of how many and how often women writers appear on the Op/Ed pages of mainstream Indian newspapers -- English and other languages? My guess is that our situation is no better than in the US. We may have more diversity but the story kind of ends there...

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