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Monday, December 15, 2008 5:41 PM

Pakistani Editor Najam Sethi Awarded 2009 Golden Pen of Freedom

Hot off the press is news from the World Association of Newspapers/World Editors Forum of this prestigious award. The Romantic Realist , who is on the board of the World Editors Forum , is delighted that a South Asian journalist has been recognized for...
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Sunday, October 12, 2008 12:46 PM

So, how many Muslims do I have in my newsroom--and my life?

It was one of those serendipitous encounters. Rather than continue waiting for an errant car service at 6.30 am on a Saturday morning and risk missing my flight, I walked up to someone on the campus of the Indian Institute of Management Bangalore since...
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Sunday, September 14, 2008 12:42 PM

All the news that's fit to de-spin?

Woke up the other day to an email from Nikhil Pahwa of Medianama who asked what I thought about a New York Times article on SpinSpotter , a start-up that claims to have come up with a tool that "exposes news spin and bias, misuse of sources, and...
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Friday, September 12, 2008 9:36 AM

Are Indian journalists prisoners of Western journalism?

A recent post on Indian prisons ( read it here ) got this interesting, tangential response from Arvind Kumar, a regular commentator on A Romantic Realist (see his comments on the Words Mean Little When It Comes to Gay Rights in India post here ). Kumar's...
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Wednesday, August 27, 2008 6:23 PM

Should Indian journalists cover up the truth?

Credit Hindustan Times with a fascinating Page 1 story on 27 August headlined " And a Gold for Press: How boxer Jitender's split chin was kept a secret ." Reporter Saurabh Duggal reveals how the Indian media contingent at the just concluded...
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Monday, August 18, 2008 9:11 AM

A liberated ghetto for women?

Hindustan Times debuts a weekly page on "the Indian woman, her concerns and dreams, stories of hope, change and inspiration." On Page 14 in 18 August newspaper, the page called Simply Woman, talks to Beijing Olympics shooting gold medalist Abhinav...
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Sunday, August 17, 2008 2:49 PM

What does Wipro have to do with terrorists?

"Ex-Wipro agent's hand in hacking?" was the headline of a front page story in the New Delhi edition of The Times of India on 17 August about Taufique Bilal, one of the men that the Gujarat police say they suspect of being one of the brains...
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Saturday, August 16, 2008 9:07 AM

Why get into journalism in circa 2009?

It is difficult to not notice the gloom and doom in Western (read US) print media these days as layoffs and cost cutting take an unprecedented toll on American journalists .But, amid all the gloom and doom, the soon-to-be-ex top editor of The Washington...
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