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  • 20 journalists across 9 categories awarded, Satyamev Jayate presented special award

    N Ram, Kuldip Nayyar & 20 others presented Press Club Mumbai RedInk Awards

    By A Correspondent

     

    The Press Club Mumbai’s RedInk Awards 2013 for excellence in journalism were presented on Saturday, May 25 at the NCPA’s Tata Theatre. RedInk trophy and prize money of Rs 1 lakh in each category were awarded to the winners and runners-up.

     

    Maharashtra Governor K Sankaranarayanan conferred the RedInk Life Time Achievement Awards upon veteran journalists  Kuldip Nayar and N Ram. The award for Mr Nayar was received by his wife Bharti Nayyar. Broadcaster Star India won the RedInk Awards for Excellence in Journalism for its issue-based reality show ‘Satyamev Jayate‘.

     

    Manish Tewari, Union minister for Information and Broadcasting was the guest of honour for the event. The scintillating awards evening regaled the 600-plus audience with an inward looking debate on the profession of journalism, titled ‘Keeping Media Free & Fair’ hosted by Times Now Editor-in-Chief Arnab Goswami, with media veterans N Ram and Uday Shankar (the Star India CEO was a former journalist) and Mr Tewari.

     

    During this occasion, Manish Tewari called for a robust self regulation regime for media organisations in the country.  “Content regulation in the media space is not going to come out of political executive, but will come out of the judicial process. Make self-regulation more inclusive and robust to keep out judicial intervention.”  “With exponential growth in the media space, a paradigm shift has taken place, wherein regulations have to keep pace with changing technologies and have to be universal,” Mr Tewari said.

     

    Mr Sankaranarayanan had the audience in splits as he spoke beyond his prepared speech. “During the last few years, the media has brought out scores of cases of corruption and wrongdoings by public servants and officials. They have also exposed wrongdoings by private organizations and individuals”.

     

     

    REDINK 2013 WINNERS
    Category Rank Name Publication
    Sports Winner Aditya Iyer The Indian Express
    Runner-Up Akshay Sawai Open
    Health & Environment Joint Winner Santosh Andhale DNA
    Joint Winner Vinod Kumar Menon Mid-Day
    Runner-Up Reji Joseph Deepika Daily, Kerala
    Television Story Joint Runner-Up Manu Kumar Manorama News
    Joint Runner-Up Brajesh Rajput ABP News
    Science & Innovation Winner Priyanka Pulla Open
    Runner-Up Mohan Sundara Rajan The Hindu
    Picture of the Year Winner Raju Shinde Mumbai Mirror
    Runner-Up Atul Kamble Mid-Day
    Entertainment & Media Winner Samanth Subramaniam Caravan
    Runner-Up Rekha Dixit The Week
    Politics Joint Winner Samanth Subramanian Caravan
    Joint Winner Nauzer Bharucha The Times of India
    Runner-Up Aman Sethi The Hindu
    Business Winner Joe C Mathew BusinessWorld
    Runner-Up Khyati Dharamsi The Economic Times
    Crime Winner Priyanka Dubey Tehelka
    Runner-Up Ratnadip Chowdhary Tehelka

    List courtesy: Press Club, Mumbai

     

  • In Freaking News, Ranjona Banerji reviews the fare in the morning papers and the nightly news. And sometimes the afternooners, the newsmags and all that's on the Web

    Ranjona Banerji: Times Now = Alternative government on Pakistan?

    Ranjona Banerji

    By Ranjona Banerji

     

    There is a need perhaps for news channels to rethink their positions as far as prime time studio discussions are concerned. One might be so bold as to suggest that they are running out of steam. Sadly, not everyday brings up a topic so incendiary that the nation’s hackles rise one way or another and as has happened over the past few weeks. If panel discussions (debates, fights, yelling matches, whatever you want to call them) are about subjects like India’s team selection for the World T20 Championships (NDTV) or one more interminable inquiry into Air India (Times Now), then who’s really watching?

     

    Times Now however seems to be setting itself up as an alternative government when it comes to Pakistan. Night after night it badgers various Pakistanis (not members of the government) and tries to get them to confess that Pakistan is sponsoring terrorism in India. There appears to be some sort of strange naivete at play here. No one in India doubts Pakistan’s involvement. But it is hard to imagine that this kind of TV assault is going to make the situation any better.

     

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    Are newspapers alive or dead? Two takes on the debate are in the links pasted below. Well, the first is certain that death is imminent. The second is one of those “India rah rah” stories which foreign news agencies alternate with ‘India boo hoo” stories. Sadly, the reasons given in these links on why newspapers are dying are as pedestrians as the reasons why newspapers in India are booming.

     

    I have another take: news is not dying. Conventional methods of dispersal are. Any other ideas?

     

    http://listverse.com/2011/07/03/top-10-reasons-the-newspaper-is-dying/

     

    http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-14362723

     

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    Senior journalist Sevanti Ninan of The Hoot writes a scathing piece in Mint on the collapse of newsgathering in newsrooms and the replacement of reporting with hectoring on TV channels. She also lifts the lid of newsroom practices and the ruthless retrenchment policies followed by newspaper managements.

     

    http://www.livemint.com/2012/07/04211735/The-changing-newsroom.html

     

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    Meanwhile excerpts from veteran journalist Kuldip Nayyar’s autobiography show the former editor to be in vicious form as he eviscerates former colleagues young and old. There is lesson here: refuse a former editor a column or suddenly cancel the column and you will pay the price later by being exposed in print.

     

    The link is from the blog sans serif: http://wearethebest.wordpress.com/2012/07/05/kuldip-nayar-on-shekhar-gupta-n-ram-co/

     

    Read and enjoy. And may there be a lesson for all those who have refused to give this writer columns…