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Government’s attempt to regulate the media through the back door: Debate at IIC on August 12
Let Media Industry Self-Regulate With Legislative Backing : Says Editors’s Guild President Rajdeep Sardesai
The 13th debate organised by FMP on the issue, Media Bill: Regulation Through The Backdoor drew an audience of 240 people at India International Centre on Thursday, the 12th of August, 2010. Students of Times School of Journalism, Pioneer School of [...]
Growing influence of lobbyists in governance and media: Debate at IIC on May 21
Foundation for Media Professionals – Media Dialogue No. 12
Lobbyists, government and media: Dangerous Liaisons?
Given the manner in which alleged phone conversations between a lobbyist and a minister rocked Parliament in the last session, it is but natural for us to take it up for discussion as a subject that affects the professionalism of journalists. For, [...]
North East: Fallen off the media map? - Debate on March 31, 2010
Report and Background Note of the Event
Thought Policing or Fighting Terror? - Home Ministry’s curbs on foreign scholars
Foundation for Media Professionals - Background Note on Media Dialogue No.10
Thought Policing or Fighting Terror?
Home Ministry’s curbs on foreign scholars
India is unique among open and democratic societies worldwide in that its government attempts to scrutinise, regulate and vet the credentials and entry of all foreign academics and scholars invited to the country for conferences on [...]
Media’s stake in bringing IB & RAW under legislative oversight
Can rural reporting be sexy? FMP’s debate at IIC on January 25, 2010
In Rahul Gandhi, C P Joshi Sees
Model for English Journalists
Seeking Rural Insights
By Vivian Fernandes
A politician and civil society groups urged editors of English newspapers and TV channels to correct the deficit in rural coverage instead of blaming the neglect on the bias of urban audiences and the pressure to cut cost. The countryside is [...]
“Blurring the line between news and ads” - FMP’s debate on October 28, 2009
Chasing revenue at the cost of journalistic ethics
Vivian Fernandes
News space was blatantly on sale in the run up to the last Lok Sabha elections. Newspapers had fixed the rates for interviews with candidates, coverage of their rallies, reports on constituency tours and denunciation of rivals. Apart from a la carte offers there were package deals [...]
“Undercover reporters: scam busters or abettors?” - FMP’s debate following a chargesheet against two
For a detailed account of the debate, please click here
Director’s annual report at FMP’s first AGM on July 5, 2009
Foundation for Media Professionals (FMP)
Annual Report presented by Director Manoj Mitta at the first Annual General Meeting (AGM) of members held on July 5, 2009 at India International Centre, New Delhi.
Dear Friends,
It is my pleasure and honor to present the first annual report of the Foundation for Media Professionals, a society founded by 12 of [...]
“Can conflict reporting be non-partisan?”
For a pictorial account of the debate, PLEASE CLICK HERE.
