Contents Acknowledgements 8 Introduction o Nalini Rajan 9 Part I: Representing the Unrepresented 1. The Gender Factor29 Ammu Joseph 2. The Problem with Media Reportage of Queer Lives45 Siddharth Narrain 3. At Least Some Children get 'Mosambi' Some of the Time 52 Sandhya Rao 4. The Unwritten Writing: Dalits and the Media61 D Ravikumar 5. Dalit Murasu: Surviving a Difficult Decade 78 V Geetha 6. 'What is the Spanish Word for Appeasement?' 101 Subarno Chattarji 7. Prophetic Misreading 116 Anjali Kamat Part II: The Plurality of Practice 8. Economics through Journalism 123 V.K. Natraj 9. Media Freedom and the Right to Privacy 132 Geeta Ramaseshan 10. Exposing the Media Spiel on Rural Women 139 K Kalpana 11. Writing Science: Breaking the Language Barrier 146 Vijaya Swaminath 12. The Arts Beat! Feel the Heat! 154 Aditi De 13. Writing on Art 163 Geeta Doctor 14. Pun Job, Sind, Gujarat, Maratha: Humour in Indian Journalism 167 Baradwaj Rangan Part III: Media in Perspective 15. The Information Revolution and the Emerging Media Ecology 175 Sashi Kumar 16. In your Face! Teaching Broadcast Journalism 185 Amanda Harper 17. My Days at Sun TV 193 A S Panneerselvan 18. Prescribed Truth, Licensed Freedom: The Press in Post-Mahathir Malaysia 206 Mustafa K Anuar 19. When the News Desk Makes the News 226 Subhashini Dinesh 20. Covering Photojournalism 232 Desikan Krishnan 21. The Relevance of the Metro Section 237 Shonali Muthalaly Part IV: Future Trends 22. Journalism: The Practice and the Potential 247 Subramaniam Vincent and Ashwin Mahesh 23. Citizen Journalism and the New Media 265 Ethirajan Anbarasan 24. Online Journalism in India: 2000 to 2005 and Beyond 275 Sunil Saxena 25. Caught in the Net 283 Frederick Noronha 26. Blogging-A New Paradigm in Journalism 289 Subhash Rai 27. Tell Me a Story: Writing and Teaching Narrative 297 Robin Reisig 28. India: A Billion Testimonies Now 304 Robert Brown About the Editor and Contributors 320