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Dr. Abhay Kumar The mainstream media – particularly Hindi newspapers – has reproduced the police version while covering the news related to the naming of opposition leaders, activists, scholars in a supplementary chargesheet in the February 2020 Delhi riots. CPM general secretary Sitaram Yechury, Swaraj Abhiyan leader and scholar Yogendra Yadav, JNU economist Jayati Ghosh, Delhi University professor and social activist Apoorvanand and documentary filmmaker Rahul Roy have been named by the Delhi police, following “disclosure” statements made by an accused under the custody. Hindi daily Dainik Jagran (National, August 13, 2020, p. 1) published the story on its first…

सुशील यतिनेल्सन मंडेला का कहना था कि “खेल की ताक़त से दुनिया को बदला जा सकता है। यह लोगों को एकजुट करती है, उन्हें प्रेरणा देती है और नस्लीय भेदभाव दूर करने में यह सरकारों से भी ज़्यादा ताक़तवर है।” ऐसे में एक स्पोर्ट्स जर्नलिस्ट से उम्मीद की जाती है कि वो एक बेहतरीन कम्यूनिकेटर (संचारक) हो। पत्रकारिता के छात्रों को अपने कैरियर के चुनाव मे विषय के चुनाव के साथ साथ स्वयं को किसी एक क्षेत्र मे विशेषज्ञयता (specialization) भी हासिल करना चाहिए और इसके लिए हमारे इर्द-गिर्द जो मीडिया वातावरण हैं उसकी समझ भी छात्रों को बढ़ाने चाहिए…

Abhay KumarCartoon: Mir Suhal/TwitterTo regain its lost legitimacy, it can return to people’s agenda and begin to speak from the common man’s perspective. But the mainstream media keeps taking an easy route. It is trying to artificially boost its popularity. The TRP scandal is a manifestation of the crisis of the media in India. Perhaps it is this shift in priority that accounts for media reluctance to talk about its corruption The media, which holds the flag of uprightness, is now reluctant to talk about the dirt defacing its own image. The immediate context is the claim of Mumbai Police that…

How do People Want the Media to Cover Politics? Richard Fletcher A key concern for many media organisations across the world is how to cover politicians who have a reputation for consistently making false statements. Some worry that repeating false statements – even if they are fact-checked and clearly labelled as such – still gives politicians the attention they crave As the structure of the media environment has changed in recent years, so has the relationship between politics and journalism. The growth of platforms like social media and video sites means that politicians can now communicate with the public more…

संतोष भारतीयप्रधान संपादक, चौथी दुनियासुरेंद्र जी ने जिस तरह पत्रकारिता को साख दी, जिस तरह उन्होंने पत्रकारिता को गरिमा दी, वैसी साख और गरिमा देने वाले लोगों का आज इंतजार है, वो चाहे रिपोर्टर हों या डेस्क के लोग हों या संपादक हों। मुझे नहीं पता कि कब ऐसा वक्त आएगा, लेकिन ऐसा वक्त अगर नहीं आएगा तो हम अपने देश में पत्रकारिता के ‘कब्रिस्तान’ तो देखेंगे, पत्रकारिता के स्मारक नहींआज श्री सुरेंद्र प्रताप सिंह जी की पुण्यतिथि है। सुरेंद्र प्रताप सिंह हिंदी पत्रकारिता के ऐसे व्यक्ति थे, जिन्होंने पत्रकारिता में एक विभाजन की रेखा खींची थी। सुरेंद्र प्रताप सिंह…

राजेश बादल पत्रकारिता में पच्चीस बरस की पारी बहुत लंबी नहीं होती, लेकिन इस पारी में एसपी ने वो कीर्तिमान कायम किए, जो आइन्दा किसी के लिए हासिल करना मुमकिन नहीं। इन पच्चीस वर्षों में करीब सत्रह साल तक मैंने भी उनके साथ काम किया। प्रिंट में एसपी ने रविवार के जरिए पत्रकारिता का अद्भुत रूप इस देश को दिखाया तो बाद में टेलिविजन पत्रकारिता के महानायक बन बैठे। सिर्फ बाइस महीने की टेलिविजन पारी ने एसपी को इस मुल्क की पत्रकारिता में अमर कर दियाहिन्दुस्तान में जो स्थान संगीत में केएल सहगल, मोहम्मद रफी या लता का है, क्रिकेट में…

A Report by the Reuters School of Journalism 2021 will be a year of profound and rapid digital change following the shock delivered by Covid-19. Lockdowns and other restrictions have broken old habits and created new ones, but it is only this year that we’ll discover how fundamental those changes have been. While many of us crave a return to ‘normal’, the reality is likely to be different as we emerge warily into a world where the physical and virtual coexist in new ways. This will also be a year of economic reshaping, with publishers leaning into subscription and e-commerce…

Prof. Subhash DhuliyaIn the wake of the digital revolution, media education needs to be radically transformed. The traditional system is no more relevant to meet present-day demands and requirements. The biggest challenge before journalism and media schools is to stay abreast with the latest in a rapidly changing world.At a time when information, data, and technology have acquired unprecedented dimensions and huge amount of information, misinformation and disinformation are available in the web domain. Developing intellectual and professional skills has acquired altogether new meaning so that students can acquire competence and decipher the hidden meaning of the media messages.  Developing…

JOURNALISM FORMS(Link to  PPT-Above)By Prof. Subhash DhuliyaJournalism of VerificationJournalism of AssertationJournalism of AffirmationAdvocacy or Interest Group JournalismJournalism of AggregationCampaign JournalismSolutions journalismFollow-up Journalism21 Types Of Journalism most used in Media

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