Akshay Kumar Nayak
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Mass Communication Ethics including Journalism and Media Ethics is the subdivision of applied ethics dealing with the specific ethical principles and standards of media, including broadcast media, film, theatre, the arts, print media and the internet. The field covers many varied and highly controversial topics, ranging from war journalism to Benetton advertising.The ethics of journalism is one of the most well-defined branches of media ethics, primarily because ...
India is a land of a fairly successful mass communication and relevant communication technologies. This is despite the fact that the mass media, individually and collectively, is below the UNESCO”S diffusion figures of the minimum norms-less than one-quarter in case of copies of dailies, four-fifths in the case of radio receiving sets, one-sixth in the case of TV sets and two-fifths in the case of cinema seats-and notwithstanding overstraining federalism ...
This book is based on newspaper reporting, journalistic writing and editing besides the main components of a news report-the body and the lead. The news items that appear in newspapers are also called news stories. In literature stories may not have their basis in actual events, but a news story is always based on facts. History is also based on facts but it deals with things of the past while news stories are on current events. Further, a news story is normally ...
Communication is one of those human activities that everyone recognise but few can define satisfactorily. Communication is talking to one another, it is television, it is spreading information, it is our hair style, it is literary criticism: the list is endless. This is one of problems facing academic: can we properly apply the term 'a subject of study' to something as diverse and multi-faceted as human communication actually is? Is there any hope of ...
Whether journalism is a profession is one of the oldest, continuing controversies in journalism. It used to be easier to take sides when the debate was simply whether journalism was a profession or a business. Liberals lined up on the side of professionalism while conservatives liked to see journalism as a profit-making enterprise. But those were simpler times. Today we can look back on a half century of striving by journalists and journalists organisations to ...
Fifty years back the feeling and the thinking that the electronic communications were killing print. That judgement has proved wrong or atleast premature. True, the antenna of the media picked up tremors in the mid-1970s indicating that Americans' reading and writing skills were declining, and by concentrating public attention on alarming statistics and assertions of decline, the media moved the tremors up the Richter scale. Popular and expert opinion quickly ...