Harini Calamur's Writings
This appeared in the FPJ on April 19th 2001 A scan of the news channels, a glance at an Indian timeline on Twitter, a glimpse at the newspaper, will confirm just one thing. COVID is back, and this time it is worse…
Journalism in Public Interest has to look at different methods of funding, beyond the sale of fleeting eyeballs to advertisers
this appeared in the FPJ It isn’t that there is a dearth of news. We are in the throes of the first global pandemic in almost a century, and the COVID crisis shows little sign of respite. There is the clash with…
The Indian news media has been expanding in all directions. Print, TV news, and digital have been giving us content of all shapes and hues, in order to attract our eyeballs, and engage us for fractions of a minute. Most of this…
As a media professional and a media watcher – i can’t help but be deeply disappointed & disillusioned by the conduct of the media over the last 5+ years. It is almost as though they have collectively sold out. that disillusionment became anger with…
If you were heading a market segment – English News – that is consumed by 0.4% of the total TV audience – 11% consume English content btw – then, logically, you will do everything possible to keep pissing off the bulk of…
If the Radia Tapes were adapted for TV then 🙂 this is how I see various countries & cultures adapting it for main stream popular TV: The US – It will be a story of a woman’s ambition and her relentless climb…
Dictionary.com has around 76 known usages of the word cast. I am reproducing 6 of those here, do check out the rest – they too are illuminating ! –verb (used with object) 1. to throw or hurl; fling: The gambler cast the…
[tag]Ficci Frames 2008[/tag] began yesterday in [tag]Mumbai[/tag]. This year's theme was sustaining development. As, usual it was great for the networking. I caught with quite a few people that I had lost touch with. Met some new ones. Bonded with old colleagues….