Includes bibliographical references and index.

Flourishing papers, floundering craft : the press and the law / B.R. P. Bhaskar -- Defining the principles of ethical journalism / N. Ram -- Prabhat Khabar : an experiment in journalism / Harivansh -- Investigat ive journalism : those who expose us / Dilip D'Souza -- Publicising the private : the right to privacy against media intrusion / Mukund Padman abhan -- The untold story of television coverage / Valerie Kaye -- The greening of India's scribes / Darryl D'Monte -- Engendering the public sphere / Pamela Philipose -- Gender, identity and the Tamil popular pre ss / V. Geetha -- Sports journalism : going against the grain / Nirmal Shekar -- Agriculture : the missing dimension / Devinder Sharma -- Urba n reporting : citizens and 'others' / Kalpana Sharma -- Porous legaliti es and the dilemmas of contemporary media / Lawrence Liang -- Covering caste : visible dalit, invisible Brahmin / S. Anand -- The relevance of the Urdu-language media / M.H. Lakdawala -- Iron veils : reporting sub -conventional warfare in India / Praveen Swami -- Embedded journalists : lessons from the Iraq war / Shyam Tekwani -- Mainstream Indian media : 1990s and after / Bindu Bhaskar -- The importance of being earnest as well as entertaining / Robert Brown -- The public sphere of print jour nalism / Robin Jeffrey -- Alternative spaces in the broadcast media / S . Gautham -- Censorship kâe Peechâe Kya Hai? / K.P. Jayasankar and Anja li Monteiro -- News in the age of instant communication / Mahalakshmi J ayaram -- Teaching computer-assisted reporting in south India / Steven S. Ross -- Community radio : luxury or necessity? / Ashish Sen -- 'Yout h' and the Indian media / Anjali Kamat.