Covering Poonam Pandey, Dolly Bindra & Shilpa Shetty as a cub reporter for a daily is not easy. Especially as you’ll never be asked to cover or uncover Poonam Pandey, Dolly Bindra & Shilpa Shetty as a lowly cub reporter. The only assignments that come within the scope & ambit of the average cubby are very, [...]
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Poonam Pandey, Dolly Bindra & Shilpa Shetty
Posted in Career listings, tagged corporation reporter, cub reporter, Dolly Bindra, journalists, Poonam Pandey, Shilpa Shetty on April 29, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
Lasantha Wickramatunge & press freedom
Posted in Career listings, I protest, tagged assassinated, Colombo, Lasantha Manilal Wickramatunge, press freedom, Sri Lankan journalists, The Sunday Leader on February 2, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Lasantha Manilal Wickramatunge was a prominent Sri Lankan journalist and former editor-in-chief of the The Sunday Leader. Wickramatunge was assassinated on 8 January, 2009, while driving to work in Dehiwela, just outside Colombo. His killing has been widely condemned by the media and viewed as an assault against press freedom. The government is being held [...]
PR agencies & communication skills
Posted in Career listings, India Uncut, tagged journalists, junkets, PR agencies, PR agents, press releases on January 12, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
(Picture courtesy Workers Solidarity Movement) PR agencies are mostly a bane and never a boon (unless you are a cover-seeking journalist or you have the rare good fortune of meeting a decently efficient + knowledgeable PR agent). The communication skills of PR agencies are notoriously poor. They keep addressing you as “dear” (quite inappropriate and [...]
Different kinds of journalists & what not to do at press meets
Posted in Career listings, tagged argumentative, cover-seeking journalist, Deccan Chronicle, Editor's Must, forest brigand, Hindu, HR guys, Indian Express, journalist, Kapil Dev, Karan Thapar, know-it-all, lobbiers, main speaker, News Today, news websites, oozyte pregnancy, PR agents, press meet, serial, sycophants, Tamil TV channel, Tamil/vernacular newspaper, TOI team (Times of India), Veerappan', Veerappan's wife Muthulakshmi on August 22, 2008 | 12 Comments »
1)The argumentative journalist: The journalist who believes he shouldn’t stop with asking questions in a press meet. No press meet is complete unless he gets into an argument with the main speaker. (e.g.) At a press meet, in which late forest brigand Veerappan‘s wife Muthulakshmi was protesting against airing a serial on the life of [...]
Why so little about journalism?
Posted in Career listings, tagged journalism, sub-editing on August 21, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
I posted a couple of stories on sub-editing, my in-office experiences…but generally my blog doesn’t reflect the fact that I’m a journalist. Maybe its because after a whole day at work, I don’t want to bring the same luggage home. Whatever, the reasons, I have decided to post more here on journalism. So cheers! To [...]
The Joke’s on us
Posted in Career listings, tagged actress Lakshmi, Cauvery issue, English, JAYALALITHA, LETTERS TO THE EDITOR, News Today, newspaper, reporter, sub, Sub-editors on August 2, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Sub-editors are not always those creatures whose English can be termed ‘impeccable.’ Once, a sub-editor overlooked a reporter’s heading that read: JAYALALITHAA DISTRIBUTES AIDS. Luckily, we changed the heading before it went for printing, but not before there were many off-colour jokes at the expense of Jayalalthaa and the reporter. And then again there was [...]
A Journalist’s dictionary II – crime reporting
Posted in Career listings, tagged accused, Anna Nagar K4 police station, Asst Police Comissioner, boyfriends, case has been filed, city police stations, constables, crime reporting, deputed, dragnet, Encounter, Further investigations are on, Journalist's dictionary, lookout, mysterious death, Police teams, police version, policeman, rape, reporter, Section 420 of the Indian Penal Code (IPC), sexually assualted, sub-editor, top brass, vernacular newspaper, victim, word count on August 2, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
A case has been filed: Its a normal day The Anna Nagar K4 police station has registered the case under Section 420 of the Indian Penal Code (IPC)….: The reporter has a word count and he’s falling short A case has been filed. Further investigations are on: The sub-editor need a few more words for [...]
A journalist’s dictionary
Posted in Career listings, tagged Accusation, Alleged, Breaking news, caught red-handed on TV, Civil war, competition, Controversial, exclusives, Flash news, follow-up story, journalist, Journalist's dictionary, Matinee idol, media reports, MTV, news agencies, News snippets, news wires, Peace treaty, Recently, Reliable source, Reliable sources, reported, Riot-torn, rumours, Said an official on conditions of anonymity, Said officials, Said top-officials, Scandal-plagued:, scandals, Shocking revelation, space constraints, Strong US military presence, sub-editor, Teen idol, Terrorist, Vogue, War-torn, Warning on August 2, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
If you ever find these words in a newspaper it can only mean Alleged: The safety net to all rumours and scandals, if they turn out to be false Breaking news: It’s on the news wires Flash news: It’s sensational, but we have only a vague idea of what’s going on News snippets: Its important, [...]
“Miss”information
Posted in Career listings, The Muses, tagged "Miss"information, Choolaimedu, Mylapore, office, peak hour traffic on July 17, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Last week, I woke up at around 8 o’ clock in the morning. Since my office was at 9.0 (virutally impossible to get ready and commute from Choolaimedu to Mylapore in peak hour traffic) and I was feeling all-tied in after the previous night’s bash, I called up office and told them I’m not coming. And since I hadn’t taken leave in a long while, they agreed.
