On a mission to spread happiness, the department of journalism and mass communication of Maharaja Manindra Chandra College in Kolkata, for the last 13 years, have brought smiles and laughter to hundreds of underprivileged individuals by giving away new clothes and sarees.
Mahatma Gandhi used to believe that the development of India lay in the true progress and development of its villages. Journalism is a mirror of society, which reflects many stark realities that often remain unheard.
As graduation approaches, college students find themselves at a crossroads of ambition and reality, analysing their next steps.
In what would have been one of his last public appearances, John Pilger in an address to the Trondheim World Festival in Norway on 8 September 2022, charted the history of power propaganda and described “how it appropriates journalism in a ‘profound imperialism’ and is likely to entrap us all, if we allow it.”
‘No radioactivity in Hiroshima ruin‘ said The New York Times front page on 13 September 1945, a classic of planted disinformation, wrote Pilger. ‘General Farrell,‘ reported William H. Lawrence, ‘denied categorically that [the atomic bomb] produced a dangerous, lingering radioactivity.‘ Only one reporter, Wilfred Burchett, an Australian, braved the perilous journey to Hiroshima in the immediate aftermath of the atomic bombing, in defiance of Allied occupation authorities, which controlled the ‘press pack‘
A $1000 income from online readership needs about 100,000 visitors a month clicking on advertisers.
Welcoming the participants, Ravindra Kumar, editor of The Statesman and trustee of C R Irani Foundation, said that in journalism as much as in public life, any kind of criticism is seen as an absence of nationalism.
The Congress General Secretary has alleged that the Yogi Adityanath government in Uttar Pradesh is constantly attacking journalists who seek answers on public issues.
As businesses are becoming comprehensive, quality management education can extend to candidates from almost any background.
Nepal’s government has become more highhanded with regard to freedom of expression and press freedom. It ignored the amendment to…
