The Press Institute Of India

Internet governance: Challenges ahead

Participants from government, the private sector, civil society and the Internet community shared information, experiences and best practices and explored how the Internet could be used to its full potential for the benefit of all, even while combating its use for harmful purposes.

The meeting addressed five main themes: reaching the next billion; promoting cyber-security and trust; managing critical Internet resources; taking stock and the way forward; and emerging issues - the Internet of tomorrow.

Elections, objectivity and the media

By: Sangeetha Rajeesh

Dear Reader,

As one of the most debatable, fascinating and important Lok Sabha elections swing into high gear, the role of the media is the subject of much discussion. Each political party and its many supporters have begun to beat on the media like a drum, attempting to draw the voter’s attention. This is typically when media objectivity gets sandwiched drawing flak from all quarters.

Pre-poll violence takes toll

By: Nava Thakuria

The trouble torn north-eastern part of India has witnessed another incident of killing of a newspaper editor in Guwahati. Unidentified gunmen shot dead the executive editor of an Assamese daily ‘Aji’ (meaning today) on the night of March 24 at around 10 p.m. The young editor, Anil Majumder was targeted by a group of assailants in front of his residence at Rajgarh locality in the capital city of Assam. The miscreants shot at him at close range after he returned from the newspaper office and they disappeared from the location taking cover of the darkness.

Elections and the media

By: Joydeep Ray

Yet another election, yet another chance for television companies to earn extra revenues and newspapers to print huge advertisements of political parties to control the effect of the meltdown up to a level.

For some, it is a chance to make a livelihood for the next five years, and may be, even for the next generation with the legality of being elected members in the country's parliament.

Going Gaga over Radio

By: Abijit Bora
Gauhati

Of late, it has been interesting to learn about the Assam State Health Department distributing radio sets to various paramedical staff engaged in hospitals in the interior places of the state, specially the ASHA workers. Then again, the Assam Information and Public Relations Department has also implemented a scheme of making radio news available to people through public address systems at busy intersections, markets etc

Sting Operations: Ethics and Reality

By: Rajeev Mohan R,
Calicut

‘Journalism is never a bed of roses’. It is true that to reveal truth, journalists are stung like bees within and around society. Journalism possesses certain ethics and standards, which are embedded with high social perspectives to address the challenges and issues faced by society.

I Khan. You Khan. We all can.

By: Sam Mathews

Ours is an amazing country where one upmanship holds the key to one brand upmanship over the other.

What is being seen today is the intense Khan versus Khan rivalry spilling over to the mobile handset market.

Communication & electronic media education: Need for uniformity

By: S Ganesh
Padur

Many colleges have started courses in communication and electronic media recently and this has proved to be a welcome feature. There is ample opportunity for people to enter into the media industry, and there is the digital media or new media which have come up in a big way.

Book Review - ICTs AND INDIAN SOCIAL CHANGE

A voluminous book with a set of 16 papers that evolved out of an ICT conference, this book discusses the relationship between new technologies and socio-economic divides, and the deployment of new technologies in the realm of governance and other public policy initiatives to overcome such divisions.

News - Media Notes

Fatal injury

A four-member television crew was injured, with one of them - 22-year-old cameraman Faraj eventually succumbing to his injuries, while on an assignment for Algerian TV. Though not the target of the attack, the crew was hit by shrapnel and debris from an Israeli attack in Gaza.

Industry Updates - General news

Epilogue turns two!

Epilogue, a monthly current affairs magazine that was launched from Jammu and Kashmir in January 2007 celebrates its second birthday! The publication is being sold at leading outlets in 17 states across India.

Diary of events

1 - 5 April

International Journalism Festival 2009

Perugia, Umbria, Italy

The third edition of the annual International Journalism Festival (IJF) is an open invitation to listen to and network with the best people from the world of journalism. Topics under consideration range across all areas of current significance for the media and society in general.