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In spite of growth of India's democracy since independence - with its media becoming one of the world's largest - there been a serious dearth of scholarship on the role of journalists and dramatically changing journalism practices. This book asks a variety of questions, including whether privately run news channels can provide the discursive space needed to strengthen the practices of democracy, whether neoliberal media ownership patterns provide space for a critical and free journalistic culture to evolve, and what the ethical challenges are that confront editors and journalists in a growing industry. This book was originally published as a special issue of
Journalism Studies.
List of contents
Introduction: Democracy, civil society, and journalism in India
1. Indian Journalism in the Colonial Crucible: a nineteenth-century story of political protest
2. Popular Cinephilia in North India:
Madhuri shows the way (1964-78)
3. A Media Not for All: A comparative analysis of journalism, democracy and exclusion in Indian and South African media
4. Phantom Journalism: Governing India's proxy media owners
5. Shaming the Nation on Public Affairs Television: Barkha Dutt tackles colorism on
We the People 6. Playing Reporter: Small-town women journalists in north India
7. The Potential and Limitations of Citizen Journalism Initiatives: Chhattisgarh's CGNet Swara
8. Connecting Activists and Journalists: Twitter communication in the aftermath of the 2012 Delhi rape
9. How Well do India's Multiple Language Dailies Provide Political Knowledge to Citizens of this Electoral Democracy?
10. Our Media, Our Principles: Building codes of practice for community radio in India
About the author
Shakuntala Rao is Professor in the Department of Communication Studies at the State University of New York, Plattsburgh, NY, USA.
Vipul Mudgal heads the Common Cause and Inclusive Media for Change organisations. He has been founding Director of Publics and Policies Programme and a Visiting Senior Fellow at the Centre for the Study of Developing Societies, Delhi, India. He works on the intersections of media, democracy and political violence.
