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Lectures on Broadcast Journalism covers all aspects of mass communications a journalist in the broadcast medium would have to face. It covers the syllabus for the Bachelor of Mass Media degree course of the Mumbai University and is designed to fill a grave Lacuna-lack of appropriate textbooks on the subject. It draws upon examples from everyday experiences of TV watchers in India, to ensure that the reader/student gets a complete picture of the drawbacks inherent ...
Everything a student of the BMM course needs to know on Press Laws and Ethics of Journalism is contained in this volume. This book by veteran journalist draws upon his five-decade long experience in some of the country’s top publication. The contents of this book are notes of lectures delivered by him in some prestigious colleges in Mumbai in the three years since the course was introduced. It is thus an ideal textbook for the subject which is an important ...
The Iyer wedding ceremony is till tradition-bound, highly ritualistic, elaborate and complex. One of them, the Kaasi Yatra, where the bridegroom pretends to adopt an ascetic life in preference to the life of a householder, and the bride’s father rushes to him, dissuades him by offering him his daughter’s hand in life-long partnership, appears redundant in modern-day conditions. But the Kanya Daanam, common to many other marriage customs is meaningful, ...
What were the historical circumstances that shaped the growth of the press in Bengal and in Marathi? A German and a Gujarati Laid the foundations of the press in Kerala. When did Indian language newspapers overtake English papers in circulation and readership? More than a history of the growth of the Indian languages press, Regional Journalism probes lesser known aspects of Indian journalism. With its feet firmly on the ground, Indian papers have, by and large, ...