On the advertising initiatives of the Government, the Minister said that the Ministry was in the process of revamping the Directorate of Advertising and Visual Publicity (DAVP) in an effort to horn its skills and professional abilities to match the private sectors’ capabilities. The initiatives of the Government regarding the Bharat Nirman campaigns and the ‘Incredible India’ campaigns both nationally and internationally had created a positive impression and brand equity for the Government’s initiatives.
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A news editor fainted in a courthouse after he was sentenced to three months in jail following his coverage of a fraud case, report the Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) and Reporters Without Borders (RSF). The detention marks the first time a Mauritian journalist has been sentenced to prison
Government officials often attempt to get journalists to reveal their sources by obtaining subpoenas and compelling testimony and the required telecommunications records. But sometimes that’s not even necessary, because sources have already been exposed by their own lax communications. And then there is illicit monitoring — I believe that American journalists should assume that their communications are being monitored by their government — and possibly other governments as well.
IT IS one of the inspirational legends of Indian journalism that James Hickey, founder and editor of the Bengal Gazette — this country’s first newspaper, with its first edition going back to January 1780 — was a fearless seeker of the truth, taken to court and imprisoned by Warren Hastings, then governor-general.
Reality is a little [...]
Bhupathbhai C Vadodaria, one of the veteran writer and journalist died yesterday at the age of 82.
Although a sort of grievance redressal system has been introduced at the Central and State levels in the last decade, most of them have remained on paper; and where they function, awareness among people about the functioning of the system is poor, according to studies. Besides, the officials in charge of the system ought to take greater interest in connecting ordinary people to the government.
John Curran, an award-winning journalist for The Associated Press who covered stories from Miss America pageants to the Gulf oil spill to recent devastating flooding in Vermont, where he served as the news cooperative’s news leader, died Saturday. He was 54.
The husband and father of three was stricken with an apparent heart attack while mowing [...]
Howard Bryan, an Ohio-born writer who moved to New Mexico to become one of the state’s most well-known journalists and the author of a number of books about his adopted state, died Saturday, publisher and friend Marcia Keegan said. He was 91.
Keehan said Bryan died in his Albuquerque home from a cancerous tumor in his [...]
Very rarely a judge of a High Court who was never elevated to the Supreme Court or even as Chief Justice of a High Court, has achieved such eminence and fame as justice Jagmohan Lal Sinha did.
“It is with a great sense of pride that I take over as president of a
body that is destined to play a major role for the journalistic
fraternity and Gujarat State as a whole. GMC’s journey began in March”
