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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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Wednesday, July 2, 2014

"ONE YEAR ON, THE MANY LESSONS I HAVE LEARNT AS A REPORTER"

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TAPASYA MITRA MAZUMDER (Class of 2013) has just completed a year as a reporter with Bangalore Mirror . Here she tells us what she learnt dur...

Sunday, May 11, 2014

For only Rs.154, enhance your reporting and writing skills

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This past week I have been reading Everything You Wanted To Know about Freelance Journalism (But Didn't Know Whom To Ask) . And as I cam...

Tuesday, August 16, 2011

How Shammi Kapoor saved the life of a Time journalist

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BOBBY GHOSH Bobby Ghosh, the deputy international editor of Time and former Baghdad bureau chief, writes in the magazine that he was nev...

Wednesday, July 6, 2011

How wait-and-watch policy paid off for Bangalore Mirror journalist

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S. Kushala, the intrepid Bangalore Mirror journalist, writes in Monday's edition: When we were tipped off about a retired judge...

Thursday, March 31, 2011

Turning dross (from a press release) into gold (news that readers will want to read)

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What happens when a news report based on a press release and using sentences from the press release does not acknowledge the source? And, w...

Wednesday, March 30, 2011

Have you heard of "churnalism"?

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Sometimes newspapers base a news report on a press release. Nothing wrong with that when the newspaper makes the source clear to readers by ...

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Tuesday, November 2, 2010

How journalism guru Roy Peter Clark helped to turn a classified ad into a heartwarming newspaper story

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"Bird — Cockatiel, grey with white face. St. Pete Beach area. Whistles at toes! Heartbroken. [Phone number]..." This was th...

Sunday, October 24, 2010

The 1 a.m. call that led to a scoop

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Bangalore Mirror has been publishing some hard-hitting stories on its front page for some time now. Yesterday it took the police to task fo...

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Monday, August 30, 2010

The king of the sting

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That would be Mazher Mahmood whose latest expose has blown the lid off the so-called "spot-fixing" scandal involving Pakistan...

Thursday, April 15, 2010

A Pulitzer Prize in 2010... and a Gannett Award in 2011

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Sanjay Bhatt, who's a staff writer with The Seattle Times in Washington State in the US, was a speaker at the Commits seminar 'Exp...

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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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