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Why journalism is not such a bad profession – or is it?

By Nilanjan Mukhopadhyay Thu, Apr 19, 2012 2:50AM UTC View Comments

For some days now a survey has been in the news ranking the journalism profession as the fifth worst in 2012. If this was not enough, the survey provided more irksome details: The job of a reporter is even worse than that of a waiter or a worker in an oil rig. These findings were rightly...

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Loyalist Post-Graduate Programs Put Finishing Touch on Résumés

By Loyalist College Wed, Feb 15, 2012 3:07AM UTC View Comments

(Originally published December 2011) By: Marilyn Warren, Marketing, Loyalist College Many university graduates are finding that employers are looking for practical skills and experience in addition to a degree. To fill this void on their résumés they are enrolling in post-graduate programs at Loyalist College, gaining hands-on experience and building professional networks as they obtain...

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The ‘anyone who wants a job must have been raped’ credo

By Nilanjan Mukhopadhyay Wed, Feb 01, 2012 4:03AM UTC View Comments

Any here who is educated, wants a job and has been raped? I am sure that the person who coined the original of the above line would not have wanted to be in India today – much less in Uttar Pradesh where the scandalous promise of a job for every educated woman who had been...

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The great Indian media debate: Opportunity lost, intransigence overtakes

By Nilanjan Mukhopadhyay Sat, Nov 12, 2011 3:16AM UTC View Comments

An opportunity for an open-minded panel discussion on the state of the Indian media, aberrations that have crept into the profession, criticism which was leveled by recently-appointed chairman of Press Council of India, Justice Markanday Katju (retd), its partial endorsement (and part rejection) from sections of the media – including this author – and complete...

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Bombay to Delhi: The changing Indian media scene

By Nilanjan Mukhopadhyay Sat, Nov 05, 2011 4:55AM UTC View Comments

When I was sixteen and half, I ran away with three hundred odd rupees in my pocket to what was then Bombay but is now called Mumbai. I did not land there to become a filmstar but because I wanted neither to be a doctor nor an engineer – options offered by my father. I...

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