Mass media in India

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Media in India, especially news media, are undergoing significant changes in the current liberalised environment. To understand these changes, one needs to have some idea of the road traversed so far. It is useful to look at media in the two phases of India's history - pre-colonial and post-colonial. Each medium has taken its own evolutionary path. We shall examine them individually. The National and the English press; Bofors and Tehelka; The Hindu and India Express ; Times of India and Statesman; India Today and Outlook; Pothan Joseph and G Kasturi; N Ram and Vinod Mehta; The Hoot and IndianOnlineJournalism.Org (Disclosure: edited by me) are not contrasts but a sampling of the range that needs to be covered here.

Contents: I Introduction

(i)The Pre-independence era
(ii) The Post-independence era

II News Agencies PTI(Press Trust of India) and UNI(United News of India) are the two primary Indian news agencies. The former was formed after the it took over the operations of the Associated Press of India and the Indian operations of Reuters soon after independence on August 27, 1947. PTI is a non-profit cooperative of the Indian newspapers. UNI began its operations on March 21, 1961, though it was registered as a company in 1959 itself.

III Newspapers

IV Radio

V Television

VI New media

VII Milestones

VIII Important personalities

IX Journalism education

X External links

I Introduction

'A Chronicle of Media and the State', by Jeebesh Bagchi in the Sarai Reader 2001 is a handy timeline to look at the growth of media over more than a century.