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Tuesday, December 23, 2008 6:37 AM

On open letters and media ethics

Readers of this Romantic Realist are used to seeing a lot of posts on Indian media. Since there is now some published debate on this particular issue, I thought it might be interesting to post this open clarification that ran on the front page of Mint...
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Saturday, December 20, 2008 10:43 AM

Why Anil Ambani wants $2.1 billion from his brother, Mukesh Ambani of Reliance; Arthur Sulzberger Jr of The New York Times and the Romantic Realist

Stories in Indian media about estranged billionaire brothers, Mukesh Ambani of Reliance Industries Ltd , India's most valuable company by market capitalization, and Anil Ambani , of Anil Dhirubhai Ambani Group , shaking hands at a meeting of industrialists...
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Wednesday, December 17, 2008 3:43 PM

The Page 3 culture's deep roots

While the pervasive Page 3 approach (a less newsy Page 6 for those New York Post fans among the Romantic Realist's readers) focusing on "who attended wearing what on their sleeve and on their body" rather than "what was show there"...
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Tuesday, December 09, 2008 9:40 AM

When journalists make a business case for why their rival newspaper is also a must-read

It is not unusual in New Delhi to get marketing pitches for why The Times of India or Hindustan Times are the essential morning reads. I don't know what the overlap of readership is between both papers but each one does try to say they are the must...
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Monday, November 24, 2008 12:31 PM

Woman on Top or heads in the gutter?

With predictable regularity, one can spot a label headline in Indian newspapers that says "Woman on Top." It could run on a story about Pepsico CEO Indra Nooyi, a chess team, a CEO appointment, any award for any woman...you get the drift. Examples...
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Thursday, November 20, 2008 12:05 PM

Touché

Regular readers of this Romantic Realist know he is a bit of an equal opportunity offender when it comes to the hand that feeds him. Still, in the face of smart creativity, one has give credit where credit is clearly due. The latest November 16-20 2008...
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Monday, November 17, 2008 5:25 AM

On a newspaper's birthday and an industry's birthday suit

It was good to see a fat one-year-old show up at my house on 16 November morning in the form of a 96-page Mail Today, the slimline (a slightly longer tabloid) daily newspaper in New Delhi from the India Today group that turned 1. The 96-pager had a lot...
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Friday, November 14, 2008 4:14 PM

Heads Above (and Below) The Rest-2

An occasional look at some great and not-so-great headlines, all trying to be clever and some pulling it off better than the others. Heads Above The Rest 1. Mail Today's 14 November front page headline " Billionaire Slide Show " is a clever...
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Wednesday, November 12, 2008 4:41 PM

Comfort the afflicted and afflict the comfortable

Every once in a while, a story comes along that reminds this Romantic Realist that journalism--and newspapers--can still be about comforting the afflicted and afflicting the comfortable . Here is one such story that ran on the front page of Mint on 12...
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Tuesday, November 11, 2008 2:20 PM

Price on request? Well, why don't you request it?

Coming out of one Indian holiday season and headed into Christmas and New Year, Indian magazines and newspapers are full (well, not too full in these tough economic times) of editorial features clearly aimed at getting readers to buy stuff. But what really...
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Thursday, November 06, 2008 5:34 PM

I am No 1. No, I am No. 1

Newspapers readers in New Delhi woke up on 6 November to front pages dominated by Barack Obama's clear win. But readers of the two main papers in town, The Times of India and Hindustan Times also got what amounted to dueling headlines on their front...
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Wednesday, October 29, 2008 6:12 AM

May you Rest in Peace and, by the way, Happy 100th birthday

Two seemingly disparate pieces of news from two continents both sounding the death rattle for celebrated media organizations that ought to be joyously celebrating their 100 th birthday tells you the story of an industry that is hurting badly in much of...
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Monday, October 27, 2008 2:21 PM

When blogs beget blogs that beget blogs...

Increasingly, many of us in print media are coming to realize that content is not king, conversation is. A good example of that, for me, has been the fact that a couple of recent blog postings on A Romantic Realist , in addition to generating a lot of...
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Saturday, October 18, 2008 11:49 AM

Whose IPR is it anyway?

If it weren't such an egregious violation of the Indian Copyright Act of 1957, there would be delicious irony in the fact that India's National Knowledge Commission , a high-level advisory body to the Prime Minister of India created with the objective...
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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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