Thiruvananthapuram, April 17
T Soman, news editor, Mathrubhumi daily, has won the state media award for general reporting in 2012 for his series of reports on migrant labourers in Kerala.
The award for development re...
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New Delhi April 15
Viacom18 Media has appointed Ajit Andhare as the Chief Operating Officer of its films business — Viacom18 Motion Pictures. Andhare replaces Vikram Malhotra who put in his papers some t...
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Mumbai, March 20
Media company Prime Focus on Wednesday said Hong Kong-based private equity fund AID Partners Capital has invested $10 million in its subsidiary Prime Focus World (PFW).The investment has be...
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Melbourne, Mar 6
Launching a scathing attack on their cricket team for a spineless show in the second Test, the Australian media today dubbed their players as “pale warriors”, who did not have the stomach for figh...
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Patna, Feb 23
Chief Justice of India Altamas Kabir today expressed grave concern over growing practise of “media trial” and said it could prejudice against the accused.
“(Media trial) it is a matter of...
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Patna, Feb 20
Opposition Rashtriya Janata Dal (RJD) today attacked Bihar Government in the State Assembly over the report of Press Council of India (PCI) alleging the Government of “arm-twisting” media in its f...
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Mumbai, Feb 14
India Ratings has a negative outlook for the media and entertainment (M&E) sector for the first half of 2013 as moderate economic growth and cost reduction initiatives by corporates are leadin...
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Kottayam, Jan. 31
Chief Minister Ommen Chandy will lay the foundation stone for the new building of Kottayam Press Club on Sunday at a prime location adjacent to the KSRTC bus stand. The five-storey building, named...
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New Delhi, May 6
A Parliamentary panel has asked the Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (TRAI) and the Ministry of Information and Broadcasting (I&B) to consider on a priority basis the matter of “paid news...
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New Delhi, April 17
Terming paid news as “moral turpitude”, the Election Commission today regretted that there is no law yet to define it.
“Paid news is an area we can ignore only at our peril. But there is...
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New Delhi, Apr 2
The government is planning to go slow in enforcing black out on TV screens as about 25 per cent of 1.6 crore households missed the April 1 deadline to switch over to digitised cable television.
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Mumbai, March 12
India’s media and entertainment industry is poised to double in size by 2017, but it still has key challenges to overcome such as stifled freedom of expression, Uday Shankar, Chairman of FICCI’s M...
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New Delhi, Feb 26
Over 10,000 posts and more than 6,000 jobs are lying vacant in the All India Radio and the Doordarshan, government said today.
Information and Broadcasting Minister Manish Tewari said the...
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New Delhi, Feb 20
Billed as the clash of erstwhile two top teams in transition, the upcoming India-Australia test series is turning out to be a money spinner for broadcaster Star Sports that has managed to rope in...
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New York, Feb 14
Global media group Thomson Reuters said yesterday that it would cut 2,500 jobs in its financial products division by the end of the year as part of a cost-cutting drive. Chief Executive...
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Kolkata, Feb 12
It is a ‘well-known fact’ that the government misuses its power of giving advertisement to influence the media, former CBI director Joginder Singh said today.
“A Press Council Chairman ha...
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New York, Jan 31
Time Inc. said that it is cutting several hundred jobs as the US publishing giant streamlines to adapt to a “multi-platform” media landscape.
Laura Lang, chief executive at the media unit...
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