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Media Ownership Corporate Control and the Changing Nature of Journalism

Media Ownership Corporate Control and the Changing Nature of Journalism

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Media Ownership Corporate Control and the Changing Nature of Journalism
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<strong>CENTRE FOR MEDIA STUDIES SCHOOL OF SOCIAL SCIENCES JAWAHARLAL NEHRU UNIVERSITY</strong> a talk by <strong>Dr. Saima Saeed</strong> (Associate Professor, Centre for Culture, Media and Governance, JMI, New Delhi) on <strong>Media Ownership Corporate Control and the Changing Nature of Journalism</strong> DATE:<strong> 30th March 2016</strong> <strong>Abstract: </strong>A key parameter of determining the changing nature of journalism is to address the question of who owns the media and why. Corrupt funding procedures and concealed ownership patterns have orchestrated a crisis of credibility for journalism while posing fresh challenges for media governance and the nature of democracy. Five cases involving leading news organizations in India are analysed to illustrate the argument. In conjunction with this, the corporate take-over of news space by non-media entities signals the rise of a press that can no longer serve as a watchdog of democracy. The presentation outlines a decline in quality journalism as a consequence of a disconcerting nexus between influential politicians, powerful corporates and profit-maximizing news organizations. Dr. Saima Saeed is Associate Professor at the Centre for Culture, Media and Governance, Jamia Millia Islamia, New Delhi. She has over 14 years of work experience spanning across media industry (television news, documentaries and non-news genres), media teaching and research. She has authored the book, Screening the Public Sphere: Media and Democracy in India, published by Routledge in 2013. She is the Project director of an ICSSR funded project, 'Minorities and the Indian Press: Marginalization and Exclusion in the News Media'.

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Initially, established as a Centre for Chinese and Japanese Studies, it subsequently grew to include Korean Studies as well. At present there are eight faculty members in the Centre. Several distinguished faculty who have now retired include the late Prof. Gargi Dutt, Prof. P.A.N. Murthy, Prof. G.P. Deshpande, Dr. Nranarayan Das, Prof. R.R. Krishnan and Prof. K.V. Kesavan. Besides, Dr. Madhu Bhalla served at the Centre in Chinese Studies Programme during 1994-2006. In addition, Ms. Kamlesh Jain and Dr. M. M. Kunju served the Centre as the Documentation Officers in Chinese and Japanese Studies respectively.

The academic curriculum covers both modern and contemporary facets of East Asia as each scholar specializes in an area of his/her interest in the region. The integrated course involves two semesters of classes at the M. Phil programme and a dissertation for the M. Phil and a thesis for Ph. D programme respectively. The central objective is to impart an interdisciplinary knowledge and understanding of history, foreign policy, government and politics, society and culture and political economy of the respective areas. Students can explore new and emerging themes such as East Asian regionalism, the evolving East Asian Community, the rise of China, resurgence of Japan and the prospects for reunification of the Korean peninsula. Additionally, the Centre lays great emphasis on the building of language skills. The background of scholars includes mostly from the social science disciplines; History, Political Science, Economics, Sociology, International Relations and language.

Several students of the centre have been recipients of prestigious research fellowships awarded by Japan Foundation, Mombusho (Ministry of Education, Government of Japan), Saburo Okita Memorial Fellowship, Nippon Foundation, Korea Foundation, Nehru Memorial Fellowship, and Fellowship from the Chinese and Taiwanese Governments. Besides, students from Japan receive fellowship from the Indian Council of Cultural Relations.