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Scribe View June 26, 2018

Contentious news is not fake news and media outrage need not be sensationalism

Sometimes, it seems, journalists have to move backwards in time to repeat basic stuff that one thought could be taken for granted. Controversies are not…

Nation Craft, State Craft May 24, 2018

Fake News or False News and how to tackle it

Fake News or False News as it is also known, has existed since the news has. Its significance has picked up more recently, as digital…

Views May 24, 2018

Why should I read newspapers?

Veteran journalist Kuldeep Nayar’s words – you should read a lot – still echo in my ears. I heard him saying this to our batch…

Views April 23, 2018

The five biggest communications issues facing CEOs and leaders today

Facebook is in the news yet again for security issues. Although the media is closely following the policy changes that Facebook is making, what is…

Views March 23, 2018

Five Ways to Spot Fake News

Fake news is not a new phenomenon, though you have likely been hearing more about it this past year. This is because these stories are…

Views August 29, 2017

Countering fake news and the rest

Last Monday, I was at #IABCIndiaConclave at NCR-Delhi where they had a panel discussion on fake news and ethics. The panelists discussed as to how…

Views June 22, 2017

The Walrus & the Carpenter in the age of fake news

“The time has come,” the Walrus said, “To talk of many things: Of shoes.. and ships.. and sealing-wax.. Of cabbages.. and kings.. And why the…

Engaging Strokes April 7, 2017

April: abuzz with amusing antics!

April is the cruelest month, according to T S Eliot, who wrote these famous opening lines to his epic poem “The Wasteland”. April is typically…

Views March 15, 2017

Surviving the era of ‘post truth’

Well into 2017, one thing I can safely say about the year that we left behind is that it was nothing short of a ‘defining…

Views January 4, 2017

2017 – The Year of Reverse Mentoring

The paraphrase – and adapt – Mark Twain, tales of the death of the media have been greatly exaggerated. Beyond North America and Europe, journalism,…