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Showing posts with label TV news. Show all posts
Showing posts with label TV news. Show all posts
Thursday, June 9, 2016

When subs fall asleep on the job

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From today's  Times of India a. In an interview with labour minister Parameshwara Naik by Sandeep Moudgal on Page 4: " Th...
Monday, March 7, 2016

Two top-notch TV news bulletins...

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...produced by the AVC (Audiovisual Communication) Batch of 2017 were screened at Commits on Friday, March 4. One of the guests commente...
Wednesday, February 10, 2016

Barkha Dutt's This Unquiet Land: Such an important book...

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...especially for media students, and especially for those who want to become television journalists. When I brought a copy to the college...
Thursday, October 23, 2014

"Canada’s CBC News Shows What Thoughtful Breaking News Coverage Really Looks Like"

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There's so much some of our news channels can learn from Canada's CBC News. And there's so much media aspirants can learn f...
Monday, October 20, 2014

"Is sexism in the 24×7 news channels a reality?"

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Last month I received an e-mail from Commitscion Deep Pal (Class of 2003), who has been an anchor with CNBC Awaaz as well as with Times No...
Saturday, March 9, 2013

9 a.m. to 11 p.m., a typical workday for one of India's best-known TV journalists

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Shereen Bhan has been a CNBC anchor for more than a dozen years now and she has a host of journalistic achievements to her credit. In an i...
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Saturday, September 29, 2012

"There are some stories TV can't do"

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NDTV anchor Sunetra Choudhury's "After the Break" column in DNA on Saturdays usually provides food for thought. Today was no e...
Friday, May 25, 2012

Never judge a book by its cover

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I had seen Broken News in bookstores but the cover was a big put-off (it still is); I imagined it to be another of those insipid novels b...
Thursday, March 1, 2012

Imagine — NDTV does not know the difference between "byte" and "bite"

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For ten years I have been telling my students at Commits that a "quote" on television is referred to as a "sound bite" ...
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Sunday, February 12, 2012

Anchoring news programmes, documentaries, travel shows, youth shows, lifestyle shows... and covering the Grammys in Beverly Hills

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SHE HAS DONE IT ALL On May 8, 2010, I watched Commitscion Priyali Sur (Class of 2005) in action as she anchored a documentary on CNN-I...
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Sunday, January 1, 2012

What it means to be a TV news producer-2

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SHALINI SEN Commits alumna SHALINI SEN (Class of 2007) is a senior assistant producer with ET Now in Mumbai. Here she talks about three ...
Wednesday, December 28, 2011

What it means to be a TV news producer-1

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KHUSHBOO JALAN Commits alumna KHUSHBOO JALAN (Class of 2007), who has been with CNBC-TV18 in Mumbai for almost four-and-a-half years now...
Monday, December 12, 2011

What it takes to be a TV news anchor

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FAYE D'SOUZA Commits alumna FAYE D'SOUZA (Class of 2004) is the assistant editor of personal finance at ET Now in Mumbai. She al...