India’s recently concluded general election revealed the power of corporate advertising and PR in determining the tone and content of the media discourse.
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After India's first, rather grudging, opening of the airwaves for community use in December 2002, it took four years of intense effort by advocacy groups
Emboldened by a history of cosy relationships with advertisers, over the past decade the Times of India has revolutionised the way that Indian newspapers must compete. With advertisers now making content decisions, print news no longer considers the reader.
Ignoring serious political discord at home, the Indian government on 4 February chose to vote along with the United States in the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), referring the Iranian
Ever since shrill hostility gave way to an effort at dialogue between India and Pakistan, every little perturbation has been viewed as a potentially fatal blow to the tenuous engagement.
Early on the morning of 17 December, the second ranking member of the US negotiating team came out with the first reasonably upbeat forecast for the ministerial conference of the
A tour of duty in India is worth at least one book for every journalist from the exalted community of foreign correspondents. The decade of globalisation, and particularly the last
