News media are major channels for the transmission of information to the public and deliver news about the latest developments regarding health issues such as climate change. How the media frame such information may enhance public understanding and enable appropriate responses by individuals and communities. This study follows up on …
According to a new survey, the Hindi press is more popular compared to the top-selling English newspapers. In the readership survey conducted by Media Research Users Council, the language press edged out English newspapers as well, with Ananda Bazar Patrika in Bengali having 158 lakh readers, followed by Lokmat in …
One doesn't usually associate medical and scientific journals with anti-poverty campaigns. But more than 200 such journals from 34 nations ran simultaneous articles on a range of poverty and development-related topics in their October issues. There are commentaries on microfinance programmes and health; China's health care system; health effects of …
>> Newspapers in Manipur stopped publication indefinitely from October 12. Cable networks have also stopped telecast. The media reaction is a response to threats by a rebel faction of the outlawed Peoples Revolutionary Army of Kangleipak (Prepak) asking newspapers in the state not to publish a statement released by one …
Two major media associations that have long been at loggerheads are on their way to a rapprochement. The move could have significant repercussions for readership surveys in India. The Media Research Users Council (mruc) a non-profit body that conducts the Indian Readership Survey looks set to patch up with the …
An Indonesian court has rejected a lawsuit filed by the Newmont Mining Corporation against the New York Times over pollution accusations made in the paper. The lawsuit was filed in the Central Jakarta court. New York Times had, between September 2004 and February 2006, run several stories highlighting comments by …
The chief of Zimbabwe's national broadcast body has admitted that there is political interference in editorial policy. "We have been reporting on the basis of deception,' said Henry Muradzikwa, appearing before a parliamentary committee on transport and communications. Zimbabwe Broadcast Holding's (zbh's) boss also told the committee hearing that reporters …
On September 17, West Bengal chief minister Buddhadeb Bhattacharya said at a cii meet that the state can't do without nuclear energy. The media found it a convenient handle to rile his party, the cpi(m), which opposes India's nuclear deal with the us. But the Hindu did strike a contrast. …
Around three years ago, I got an opportunity to meet Chandi Prasad Bhat. He was lecturing on how poor villagers in Uttaranchal hugged trees and prevented them from being cut down. The lecture on the Chipko movement got me thinking on environmental activism in my home state, West Bengal. Environmental …
I read newspapers and I watch the news unfold on scores of television channels. But in spite of these sources that keep me informed about current affairs, I would not know that floods are still ravaging vast parts of India. I would not know that over 2,800 people have died …
Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez has refused to renew the licence of a television channel regarded as an institution in his country, raising fears that the Venezuelan leader is fast turning despot. Amnesty International, Human Rights Watch, members of the European Parliament, the us Senate and even Chile's Congress have denounced …
Community journalism has never had it this strange. James Macpherson, publisher of a two-year-old website pasadenanow.com recently hired two journalists from India to report local events in a small town in the us. They will report on local events in Pasadena, California, from India. The us has been outsourcing media …
The Union information and broadcasting ministry (i&b) is considering amending rules pertaining to employment of foreigners and non-resident Indians (nris) in newspapers and other current affairs publications. These publications will have to intimate details of foreigners/nris they propose to employ. But they can employ foreigners or nri while the process …
>> US publications like The Washington Post and National Geographic are increasing their offerings of "green' content, hoping to attract readers and advertising revenues from manufacturers and retailers who are suddenly walking the earth-friendly path. The National Geographic Society has also rolled out a new site: Green.National Geographic.com. That site …
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Readership surveys in India are becoming controversial. The Indian Newspaper Society (ins), for example, has decided to conduct surveys challenging the Indian Readership Survey (irs) by the Media Research Users Council. The latter claimed newspaper readership is declining in India. ins cites increasing sales figures to counter this. Figures of …
>> The African Network of Environmental Journalists has received US $480,000 in funding from the European Commission to enable it to organise six regional workshops on environmental governance. >> Simon Michaels, an Australian kayaker, set off across Bass Strait to raise awareness about a proposed pulp mill in Tasmania. He …
Till some time back, India was the poster child of globalisation. A country which opened out to the world in the early 1990s and the world responded enthusiastically. The Indian economy grew. A section of people in the country prospered. The poster child now seems poised for adulthood. So believes …
A us official denied a British newspaper report that President George W Bush was preparing to announce a dramatic policy shift on global warming in his State of the Union speech. The Observer had quoted senior British officials, who were not named, to this effect. Bush and British prime minister …
