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Shruti Pushkarna: Waking up to a disabled-friendly media in 2021 Posted on 31 Dec,2020 | under COLUMNS 2021 offerings by the media: Special broadcast for the disabled, amended hiring policies, sensitised programming and much more! And how about this: News television to become inclusive from Jan 1, 2021. Shruti Pushkarna steps into a make-believe world in 2021

Das ka Dum with Dr Bhaskar Das I Can you capture your sentiments for the year that’s nearly past us and for the new year for which we are getting set. Around 10-15 words each for the above at a personal & professional level Posted on 31 Dec,2020 | under COLUMNS The last question of the calendar year. Let’s hear it from Dr Bhaskar Das in the December 31, 2020 edition of Das ka Dum. See you in the New Year. Read on…

Bhuvi Gupta: 2020 Trends in Media – Because Genuinely now Hindsight is 2020 Posted on 30 Dec,2020 | under COLUMNS the media industry is set to go through a monumental shift in the coming year because the biggest advantage that legacy media companies had was of distribution, a high-quality workforce and access to newsmakers, writes Bhuvi Gupta

Das ka Dum with Dr Bhaskar Das I Two more days and it’ll be 2021. In a terrible year in every possible way, was there any silver lining that you noticed in 2020? Something that you think was the saving grace? Posted on 30 Dec,2020 | under COLUMNS Techtonic. Don’t miss the usage of the word. Trust BD to come up with gems like these. Without further ado, presenting the December 30 edition of Das ka Dum with Dr Bhaskar Das. Read on…

Das ka Dum with Dr Bhaskar Das I In the mid- to late-1990s when the cable operator wars were raging, one was forced to hand over the M&E beat to the crime reporters in Mumbai papers. Appears to be an encore as we enter the 2020s. Your comments? Posted on 29 Dec,2020 | under COLUMNS Self-explanatory question. Let’s see how and what Dr Bhaskar Das responds. Without further ado, presenting the December 29 edition of Das ka Dum. Read on…

Ranjona Banerji: The Protests are Real. The Media Coverage is Mingy & Scared Posted on 29 Dec,2020 | under MxM JOURNALISM REVIEW Not since the days of the Emergency has media coverage been nothing more than a public relations exercise for the government, writes Ranjona Banerji

Why? Damn! Pray 🙏🏻 Posted on 28 Dec,2020 | under COLUMNS We Need Answers, writes Pradyuman Maheshwari. The Nation Indeed Wants to Know

Das ka Dum with Dr Bhaskar Das I The revelations (and counter-revelations) in India’s media ecosystem have left us anguished. I know it can’t be achieved in a few words, but please help in pulling us out of this state of depression… Posted on 28 Dec,2020 | under COLUMNS The sentiment we experienced wasn’t make-believe. We’ve been anguished by the arrest of former BARC CEO Partho Dasgupta, and the statements of the Mumbai police thereafter. This is what prompted us to ask Dr Bhaskar Das what we did. Without further ado, presenting the December 28 edition of Das ka Dum. Read on…

Das ka Dum with Dr Bhaskar Das I It’s the time of the year when one makes resolutions for the next year. In order to help our readers, can you recommend one or more recommendations for their resolutions for 2021? What should they be? Posted on 24 Dec,2020 | under COLUMNS We asked for it. When you ask BD a question like this, you can be sure his response will make you feel so foolish that you asked him what you did. Be that as it may, do read what Dr Bhaskar Das has said in a week-before-New Year edition of Das ka Dum. Read on…

Ranjona Banerji: When hate gets flagged in other democracies… Posted on 24 Dec,2020 | under MxM JOURNALISM REVIEW Whereas in India, Arnab Goswami gets high level support whenever he is crossed, writes Ranjona Banerji

PR & CorpComm upheld India Inc’s buoyancy in 2020 Posted on 24 Dec,2020 | under COLUMNS Take a bow, writes Siddhartha Mukherjee

Das ka Dum with Dr Bhaskar Das I One seldom sees you blow your top. How do you control your emotions? Posted on 23 Dec,2020 | under COLUMNS The difference between anger and danger is only the alphabet D…  words of wisdom indeed from our Wizard with Words. Without any further ado, the December 23, 2020 edition of Das ka Dum with Dr Bhaskar Das. Read on…