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The absence of serious consideration of ethics in the Indian media.
By Siddhartha.
This morning I spoke to Professor Arun Subramaniam for the second time in one month on the subject of ethics in the Indian Media. Prof. Subramaniam teaches ethics in a leading media school in Bangalore. This is what he told me: “I am shocked at the almost complete absence of discussion or debate on the issue of (...)
The Mumbai terrorist attacks and the social responsibility of the media.
By Ananda Siddhartha.
In today’s society the mass media has become an integral part of everyday life. There has been a rapid spread of cable, satellite television channels, cheap access to internet and digital technology which has resulted in the brisk transfer of information even as it happening. But the question still (...)
Work report of the Journalists Alliance, 2007
The Alliance of Journalists in Asia is continuing the objectives that it developed to build up a community of ‘socially engaged journalists’.
We do this through the following ways:
• creating small clusters of journalists who meet informally to strengthen their work on social and ecological reporting.
• to inter-act with students from colleges of (...)
Short report of the workshop of journalists, journalism students and social activists on Employment Guarantee programme
19-21 September 2008, Bangalore
This was a workshop that has just concluded this evening. So this report will be necessarily brief. A longer report will be prepared in the days to come.
This workshop had almost forty participants. About half of them were journalists and (...)
Media conference with Journalists in the Kannada media (organized by the International Journalists Alliance)
9th & 10th August 2008
Fireflies Inter-cultural Centre, Bangalore
The Journalists Alliance organized an intensive two-day conference of journalists working in the Kannada language media. Twenty journalists participated on 9th and 10th August 2008. The meeting was extremely (...)
As a constituent of the International Alliance of Journalists, Pipal Tree held a journalists workshop at Fireflies Inter-cultural Centre in Bangalore. This two days’ workshop held on the 8th and 9th of December 2007 were attended by 20 journalists from the major daily newspapers of Kerala, cutting across their ideological stance. The combined readership of these newspapers would be about 12 (...)
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