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Related Features- The stories you missed on primetime: Community newsmakers tell it like it is
By Hemangini Gupta There's a community video revolution happening in rural India, and it’s no longer tokenism. Video newsmagazines are made, distributed and screened regularly and professionally. They’re even streaming online at a website called Channel 19 - The story behind the visual
By Charumathi Supraja Many print and online publications use freelance photographers, but their rights to their own work are a grey area that many publications exploit - A camera, a mike, and new confidence
By Hemangini Gupta A non-governmental organisation, IT for Change, and a government-initiated programme for women’s empowerment, Mahila Samakhya Karnataka (MSK), have helped women in rural Karnataka voice their concerns by making community videos, radio shows and short films - History in the making: The Young Historians series
By Hemangini Gupta The telling of history is often coloured by politics, or a boring narration of facts and dates. Filmmaker Deepa Dhanraj, however, has taken a fresh approach, making a series of films for Edusat, the distance learning programme in rural Karnataka, in which children learn about history by becoming historians themselves - Small, diverse and beautiful
By Hemangini Gupta At a time of food scarcity worldwide, non-literate dalit women in Andhra Pradesh have ensured food security for their community through a model that could be called a “villaged global” rather than a “global village”. And they are spreading the word through their own media centre
Related Analysis- The regulator’s wish list
By S Nandan
The recent recommendations made by the Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (TRAI) on the entry of certain entities into radio and television is full of good intentions, but how many of them are implementable in the current confused state of broadcasting in the country? - No, we can't
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By Shangon Das Gupta Media advocacy is a way of getting an important issue adequate and accurate coverage. An initiative in Bangalore showed how media advocacy highlighted the issue of a dying river and resulted in questions being asked in the state assembly - The ten commandments of news broadcasting
By Siddharth Narrain The big difference between the code of ethics drawn up by the News Broadcasters Association (NBA) and that of the I&B ministry is that the NBA has set up an independent disputes redressal authority, whereas the ministry’s code gives overarching powers to the central government - The stress is on conflict, not its resolution: Chindu Sreedharan
By Aditi Bhaduri Conflict is at the heart of every interesting news story, says Chindu Sreedharan in this analysis of how the Indian and Pakistani media cover Kashmir. But journalism tends to simplify issues and see things in black and white, which won’t do in reporting conflict - Terror reporting and the gullible pen
By Kalpana Sharma The recent serial blasts in Bangalore and Ahmedabad have exposed, yet again, the dilemma the media faces in covering such events. While reporting in detail the horror and the tragedy surrounding the event are a natural part of the media’s task, how should it handle the speculation about the culprits behind the attack? - Indecent proposals
By Siddharth Narrain The National Commission for Women has recommended amendments to the Indecent Representation of Women Act, broadening the definition of “indecent representation” and introducing more stringent punishment under the law. But with this move, is the NCW taking the debate on representation of women in the media forward in any meaningful way?
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