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Subhash DhuliyaMJMC-GLOBALISATIONEconomic, financial, trade and communications integration of worldEmergence of global village and global networked society as a result of technological revolution and integration of telecommunication, computer and world wide web ( www)Globalization implies the opening of local and nationalistic perspectives to a broader outlook of an interconnected and interdependent world with free transfer of capital, goods, and services across national frontiersIncrease of trade around the world, especially by large multinational companies producing and trading goods across the globeA situation in which available goods and services, or social and cultural influences, gradually become similar in all parts of the worldThe…

Subhash Dhuliya The “headline journalism” is meant to ‘drag the attention” and leave out important details isolating the news from its context. The truth gets buried. In the process of selecting certain stories to report on while not selecting others or selecting certain details of a story while omitting others, the truth is the causality. What media don’t report has not happened for us. Only those events happen for us what the media report. Multiple and reliable sources of information are missing and we do not get to know an authentic view of the reality This first phase of the…

In a report titled “China’s Pursuit of a New World Media Order”, Reporters Without Borders (RSF) investigates Beijing’s strategy to control information beyond its borders, a project that poses a threat to press freedom throughout the world.Beijing is also exporting its censorship and surveillance tools, including the Baidu search engine and WeChat instant messaging platform, and encouraging authoritarian states to copy its repressive regulations, a particularly effective strategy in Southeast Asia China, ranked 177 out of 180 in the 2019 World Press Freedom Index compiled by Reporters Without Borders (RSF), is expanding its hold beyond its borders to impose its “ideologically…

Media-Comm-PP-Ujjawal ChardharyClick above linkBy Prof. Ujjwal K. Chowdhury

2022 will be a year of careful consolidation for a news industry that has been both disrupted and galvanised by the drawn-out COVID-19 crisis. Both journalists and audiences have, to some degree, been ‘burnt out’ by the relentless intensity of the news agenda, alongside increasingly polarised debates about politics, identity, and culture. This could be the year when journalism takes a breath, focuses on the basics, and comes back stronger.In many parts of the world, audiences for news media have been falling throughout 2021 – not an ideal situation at a time when accurate and reliable information has been so…

Lars MollarMany journalists simply sit and wait for the news to fly down on their desks via phone calls from open-mouthed colleagues or from press releases which they often conveniently publish without asking additional questions or even without rewriting anything. Likewise they pick up news from news agencies and other media, newspapers, radio and TV without checking the information given or without developing these pieces of news into new storiesDefinitionProactive newsgathering is taking control of the flow of information.The media can take control with the flow of information on three stages:By conceiving their own story ideashunting up events for coveragedefining…

Dr. Pradeep Mahapatra While mass media struggled throughout 2022 to release itself out of disruptions confronted due to Covid-19 pandemic, it is presumed that the year 2023 will be devoted to accommodate in the changed social environment of ‘new normal’ evolving and implementing new strategies. The long lockdowns during the pandemic affected the media and entertainment sector like any other industry and business. However, three separate reasons contributed to the owes to make the situation complicated.First, unprecedented innovations in the field of technological advancement brought far reaching changes in production and distribution in various fields of mass media and the traditional…

“These are extraordinary times, but human rights law still applies” Jessica Corbett Over 100 human rights groups Warn Against Exploiting Pandemic to Permanently Expand Surveillance State “Technology can play an important role in the global effort to combat the COVID-19 pandemic; however, this does not give governments carte blanche to expand digital surveillance.” As the number of COVID-19 cases climbed toward a million worldwide on Thursday, over 100 human rights groups issued a joint statement warning that governments’ response to the coronavirus pandemic “must not be used as a cover to usher in a new era of greatly expanded systems…

Dr. Pradeep Mahapatra In a media ecosystem that was severely affected by disruptions due to the coronavirus-induced pandemic during 2020 and 2021, the measurement of hopes and aspirations among the leaders of the industry carries relevance. ‘World Association of Newspapers and News Publishers’ (WAN-IFRA) published a report entitled ‘World Press Trends Outlook 2022-2023’ in March 2023. It carried a description on challenges and opportunities faced by print publications worldwide. The report highlighted a clear distinction in the perspectives of news publishers between developed and developing nations. While the publishers in developed economics expressed a pessimistic view of business in 2023,…

Sensationalism is calling the shotsYellow journalism or the yellow press is a type of journalism that does not report much real news with facts. It uses shocking headlines that catch people’s attention to sell the news to wider audience. It a kind of “grab-the-attention journalism. At times, Yellow journalism exaggerating facts to the extent of spreading rumors It uses lurid features and sensationalized news to increase audience and market share. The phrase was coined in the 1890s to describe the tactics employed in the furious competition between two New York City newspapers, the World and the Journal. The term yellow…