Public-Interest Journalism: A guide for students Arvind Sivaramakrishnan
Material type: TextPublication details: New Delhi: Orient Balckswan, 2014Description: 222 pISBN: 9788125056720Subject(s): JournalismDDC classification: 070Item type | Current library | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item holds |
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Includes bibliography and index
1 The Current Condition and the Commercial
Context of the News Media
Fictions and lies
Political impact of media fictions
Propagating propaganda
The historical background and the propaganda model
The media oligopoly: Political power despite
commercial failure
The shrinking range of content and ideas in
the mass media
Pressures on public-sector broadcasting
State protection of private-sector media monopolies
Market censorship
Unfree expression in an unfree market
2 A Summary of the Contemporary Indian
News-Media Context
Outline
Examples of significant neglect
The business structure of the Indian news media
A problem about credibility
3 Professionalism and Media Culture
The appeal of professional certification
The incoherence of the distinction between reportage
and comment
4 Professional Journalism and Systematic Subordination
An occupational myth, and increasing dependence on
official and corporate sources
Can the media be war criminals?
Evasions, exclusions, and suppressions
5 Citizen Journalism
A brave new dawn?
The mainstream press and social media journalism—
the institutional relationship
Speed—and a threat to official secrecy
Advertising
Blogs
The citizen-press symbiosis
6 Alternative Models of the Media
How the press already depends heavily on the state—
the range of existing funding models
Targeted tax breaks
Trust status
Charitable status
Community Interest Companies
Independently Financed News Consortia
Subsidies in the form of government advertising
Direct state funding
Possible reform: Structural change and informing principles
Ordinary people—the media's worst enemy?
7 Existing Alternatives to the Mainstream Media
Instructional Material-Examples and Exercises
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