Archive for October, 2008
Ujle Savere Ke Liye
Ujle Savere Ke Liye [...]
People want us to act responsibly
There are no entry barriers in journalism. Unlike the accounting, medical or architectural professions one does not need minimum qualifications, nor accreditation. Those who practiced it during the freedom movement were informed of a higher, noble purpose. That was its main attraction even when newspaper owners regarded it as a route to negotiate the thicket [...]
Such a long journey!
It took about four major big meetings and several minor ones to get the Foundation of Media Professionals going. I remember the first meeting which we organised in Hotel Mosaic in Noida in 2007 and the several diverse views that came about why such a body was needed. While all of us understood and felt [...]
Professional, oh yeah?
The media’s growing alignment with the market over the last decade has done a lot of good to us, the media professionals. We command better pay packets. Some of us even have ESOPs. We have gone up the social ladder. We are more influential than ever before. These gains seem to have however come at [...]
