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Coming up next! We're excited to announce a meetup on 'How to make civic journalism work in digital', on Friday March 22, 2019. #HeyMediaMission
More details here:
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We will be livetweeting info and insights from today’s #HeyMediaMission meetup starting 5 pm IST.

. @PARInetwork 's co founder @Shalininess will discuss -- How journalism can stay true to its civic role in India ?

. @scroll_in 's Associate Editor @RohanV will discuss -- How public-interest journalism can adapt to and remain relevant on new platforms ?

. @AsiavilleNews editor @vikaspathak76 will discuss -- How the media can spur the Government's focus on development ? #HeyMediaMission

.@crowdnewsing’s founder @bilalzaidi84 will discuss -- Whether journalism does enough to solve civic problems? #HeyMediaMission

.@BBCIndia 's correspondent @TweetNitinS talks on -- Whether social media is a friend or an enemy to development journalism ? #HeyMediaMission

@PARInetwork @Shalininess "Media houses encourage reporters to cover the business side of agriculture and not the people themselves", says @Shalininess. #HeyMediaMission

@PARInetwork @Shalininess "Digital space allows PARI to present their work as a museum space in a way that print simply cannot," says @Shalininess. #HeyMediaMission @PARInetwork

@PARInetwork @Shalininess .@Shalininess says -- In a country the size of India, 70% of the country’s population receives less than 1% of front page coverage.

@scroll_in @RohanV “Internet has bridged the gap between you (publication) and your reader. The downside is Media houses deciding that they should get to everyone, ” says @RohanV. #HeyMediaMission

@scroll_in @RohanV .@RohanV says, “The internet allows your content to find its own form. The medium allows for a different perspective on the same story.” #HeyMediaMission

@scroll_in @RohanV .@RohanV -- “Indian journalism, like the Indian state, is very centralized and tends to speak to cities.”

@AsiavilleNews @vikaspathak76 "In our country the collapse of government schools is the new normal ... TV channels rarely cover it as a part of development news," warns @vikaspathak76 #HeyMediaMission

@AsiavilleNews @vikaspathak76 “There’s a lack of consistency in development coverage about higher education. TV channels tend to approach education as brands and so only focus on certain elite institutions,“ says @vikaspathak76
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@AsiavilleNews @vikaspathak76 .@vikaspathak76 on the Internet - “[It] is an opportunity to reach out to a new audience and focus on stories traditional media does not", but, "the massive rumor industry is also in the digital space.” #HeyMediaMission

@BBCIndia @TweetNitinS “Social Media is currently a threat to real news. There is an industry of fake news that has no checks,” says @TweetNitinS

@BBCIndia @TweetNitinS .@TweetNitinS says - The popularity of smartphones has seen a rise in the consumption of porn and fake news across India.

@BBCIndia @TweetNitinS "The strength of social media is its reach. But it also comes with the challenge of catering to that audience," says @TweetNitinS. #HeyMediaMission

@crowdnewsing @bilalzaidi84 .@bilalzaidi84 recounts how his stories about farmers or development were criticized by his editors for lacking ‘masala’. “One way to address this was to bring a respected brand around it.”

@crowdnewsing @bilalzaidi84 “Journalism as a space is very passive and is waiting for things to happen. The media needs to look for opportunities to tell stories when issues rise,” notes @bilalzaidi84. #HeyMediaMission

Signing off for today. We believe -- its just not about the meetups, but also about the network we collectively build ! Some snaps from the post event :)