Topic: Importance of News media in india.
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Explanation:
Media: The word 'media ' is derived from the word medium, which means carrier. The word was first used in respect of books and newspapers for example, print media and with the help of technology, media now encompasses television, movies, radio and internet.
Importance of Media:
Media is the most important tool of communication. It helps deliver of spread news. Although sometimes media is linked with spreading fake news but then it also helps a lot to inform us about the reality. We cannot deny the fact that this world is full of so many social problems we need media to high light this problems so the government or other people could take steps to finish these social issues. For example:
Poverty
Violence
Corruption
Suppression of human…show more content…
Journalists provide news through many different mediums, based on printing, postal systems, broadcasting, and electronic communication.
The Changing Role of the News Media
in Contemporary India
N. Ram1
The global scenario
The news media are in crisis across the developed world. Journalism as we
know it is being described, obviously with some exaggeration, as ‘collapsing’,
‘disintegrating’, in ‘meltdown’. In this digital age, there is gloom in most
developed country, or ‘mature’, media markets over the future of newspapers
and also broadcast television. Two decades after a call issued from a conference
in Windhoek, Namibia for the establishment of World Press Freedom Day, ‘the
arrival of the digital revolution – the evolution of the Internet, the emergence of
new forms of media, and the rise of online social networks – has reshaped the
media landscape and made “the press” of 2011 something that those gathered in
Windhoek in 1991 could not have imagined’ (UNESCO 2011). There is a strong
sense that ‘the news industry is no longer in control of its own future’ (Rosenstiel
& Mitchell 2011) and that it is technology companies like Google and the social
media that lead the way and look set to hegemonize the public space that once
belonged to the news media.
The global financial crisis and economic slowdown of 2008-2009 sent several
western media organizations into a tailspin. Advertising revenues, the lifeline
of the newspaper industry, took a body blow during this period. Many big
newspapers, whose strengths had been sapped and whose situational advantages
had been undermined over the years, went into bankruptcy or protection against
bankruptcy. The New York Times was bailed out by an emergency loan of US $250
million from Mexican billionaire Carlos Slim: ‘to help the newspaper company
finance its businesses’ (NYT 2009). Tens of thousands of journalists lost their
jobs in the United States, where newsrooms are 30 per cent smaller than in 2000
(Rosenstiel and Mitchell 2011), and across Europe