I enjoyed reading this article..."...Ideally, the newsroom should not descend into forbidding silence, look like clones of sanitised corporate offices, which more often than not, serve interests essentially at odds with the interests of journalism. But that’s like an ‘ideal’ situation, one which we have allowed to slip out of our grasp. I begin writing this piece with the Delhi University academia’s efforts to ‘take back’ the classroom because it seems to resonate with the possibility of what we, as journalists could have achieved, had we too tried to ‘take back’ the newsroom. But that moment is long gone. In the last three decades, the newsroom has shifted from being an active, noisy, argumentative space to a passive, quiet domain that privileges consensus over debate. In this stifling metamorphosis lies a much larger socio-economic narrative, with changes in the newsroom converging with economic changes in the post-liberalisation era that started in 1992. As economic restructuring took off and work places started reinventing themselves, culturally as well as aesthetically, the world of journalism too, went into a transformative mode..." kafila.org/2013/08/01/the-changed-face-of-the-newsroom-monobina-gupta/
Posted on: Thu, 01 Aug 2013 11:49:39 +0000
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