Think about it.. more than 60 per cent of the english speaking audience for television news channels is south of the Vindhyas (atleast thats what the television audience meter ratings tell us). Yet, more than 75 per cent of the news reporting on television is confined to the metros of...

In my new avatar, most people who call or sms me to wish a happy holi are usually job-seekers. A few days ago, a young aspiring journalist rang up to ask me if he could be accomodated in CNN-IBN. What would he like to do, I asked. Pat came the...

An editor once told me that he believed his magazine had "arrived" the day two legal notices were slapped against it (no, we're not referring to the editor of Maxim but someone who prides himself on "serious" journalism). By that reckoning, CNN-IBN has well and truly arrived. So far, we...

You cannot help feeling a little sorry for Samajwadi party leader Mr Amar Singh as he scurries from city to city, from one tv channel to another crying hoarse that his phone is being tapped. Gone is the ready wit, the easy swagger and the broad grin that is part...