THE READING ROOM

This blog is primarily for media aspirants as well as young journalists. My aim is to provide links to articles that will enhance their understanding of the media and help them to improve their writing skills, broaden their horizons, and expand their worldview. My hope is that The Reading Room will also help them to become good media professionals.

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Thursday, July 4, 2013

We in the media like a good laugh at ourselves, don't we?

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BUD HANDELSMAN CLIVE GODDARD JOEL MISHON JIM SIZEMORE LES BARTON MIKE BALDWIN RAY LOWRY NICK BAKER From the...

Thursday, June 13, 2013

How does a cartoonist get an idea that will strike a chord with people everywhere?

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Here is the cartoon by New Yorker cartoonist Liam Walsh that quickly went viral: And here's Walsh discussing, in a New Yorker vid...

Tuesday, April 30, 2013

Should a cartoonist apologise when readers complain his work is "insensitive and tasteless"?

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Fourteen people died and as many as 200 others were injured in an explosion in a Texas town earlier this month. Last week a newspaper publ...

Wednesday, September 26, 2012

How a great cartoonist does what he does

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Did you know each cartoonist who freelances with The New Yorker, that storied magazine founded by Harold Ross in 1925, is required to subm...

Friday, September 14, 2012

The most intelligent comment I have read on the Aseem Trivedi controversy

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COURTESY: AJIT NINAN/ToI There have been many reports and editorial comments on the arrest in Mumbai last week of cartoonist Aseem Tri...

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Wednesday, May 30, 2012

When complaints from the public mean you must be doing something good

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Those who work in the media have to know how to deal with complaints from the public. If you're a journalist, for instance, it feels goo...

Thursday, May 10, 2012

You won't believe how this popular comic strip artist gets his ideas

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Stephan Pastis, the creator of the wildly successful Pearls Before Swine, says the process of humour writing is most akin to what they...

Sunday, March 11, 2012

When furniture get nightmares

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What is my television's worst fear? What might my sofa dread? And what is my centre table's worst nightmare? These are the questio...

Sunday, August 21, 2011

Telling it like it is... with cartoons

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With a few deft strokes of his (computer) brush and pen, DNA cartoonist Manjul (he uses only one name) has captured the spirit — and the a...

Tuesday, October 26, 2010

"Open" sesame...

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Aniruddha Bahal is unlike any journalist I know of. While his claim to fame rests largely on the sting operations he carried out for Tehelk...

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Thursday, April 15, 2010

Quick on the draw

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Hadi Farahani is the most brilliant illustrator and cartoonist I have met. I had the pleasure of working with him in Dubai in the '90s w...

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Ramesh Prabhu: Bangalore, Karnataka; I have more than 20 years' experience (1981 to 2003) as a journalist in India and Dubai, specializing in selecting and editing news reports and features. From 2003 to 2019, I taught journalism and writing skills to master’s students at Commits, a media college in Bangalore. I joined Cactus Communications ("Serving Science Worldwide") as a copyediting freelancer on October 1, 2019. From the very beginning, I have enjoyed the challenge of working on a new assignment each day. I like to think of every article as a daily crossword puzzle that I need to solve by examining the clues closely. And, finally, when I submit the article that I have tended, I like to think, with love and care, I feel deeply satisfied.

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