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2016 Pulitzer Prize Winners
The Sympathizer, a debut novel of Vietnamese American professor Viet Thanh Nguyen has won the Pulitzer Prize for fiction. While, Associated Press has won two prestigious Pulitzer prize...National Media Analytics Centre (NMAC)
The Government has proposed to set up a National Media Analytics Centre. The main objective for such a proposal is to actively come up with instant counters to...
China hosts 1st BRICS media summit
China hosted the first Brazil-Russia-India-China-South Africa (BRICS) media summit in Beijing for creating an alternative media platform for the 5 emerging economies. 25 media organisations participated in the...
AIR programme on Child Labour wins 2015 ABU Prizes
All India Radio’s (AIR’s) Programme on child labour titled Nilkkam Ivarkkoppam has won the first prize at the 2015 Asia-Pacific Broadcasting Union (ABU) Prize ceremony. The programme has...[Essay] Breaking News Syndrome-2
[no_toc]On April 19th, 2013, CNN reported “breaking news” – the police had a suspect in custody for the Boston bombing, and they were on the way to the...[Essay] Breaking News Syndrome
[no_toc]When Howard Beale at UBS Evening News learnt that he had only a couple of weeks more on the air, due to declining ratings, he would have been...[Essay] Media are ethically positive, if they strengthen fundamental values
[no_toc]Some events become turning points in the evolutionary course, not only of certain institutions but the entire nation as well. The way things have unfolded in the media...
Veena Jain appointed as Director General (news) of Doordarshan
Union Information and Broadcasting (I&B) ministry has appointed Veena Jain as director general (news) in Doordarshan (DD). She succeeds senior Indian Information Service (IIS) officer Akshay Rout. Along...
