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Business News > Mint Authors > Sevanti Ninan

Sevanti Ninan

ARTICLES BY SEVANTI NINAN

There are estimated to be some 10 companies worldwide like Automated Insights, which has partnered with the ‘Associated Press’ to

Automated hacks

4 min read . 19 Mar 2015

Home minister Rajnath Singh thundered on Wednesday that rape was being used for commercial gain by a Western filmmaker. His ministry had already passed a restraining order on Leslee Udwin’s film being shown. Photo: PTI

Leslee Udwin? No. Honey Singh? Yes.

4 min read . 05 Mar 2015

AAP leader and Delhi chief minister Arvind Kejriwal. Photo: Mint

A budget campaign

4 min read . 19 Feb 2015

Kiran Bedi is discovering that you cannot rely on your record even when your principal opponent has 49 days of work to cite, to your 40 years. Photo: Mint

Kiran Bedi’s turn

4 min read . 05 Feb 2015

Photo: Priyanka Parashar/Mint

Troubled Mahavishnu

6 min read . 30 Jan 2015

So will some jounalists’ universe shrink to tapping Facebook and following those on Twitter? Photo: Bloomberg

Journalism’s tech divide

4 min read . 08 Jan 2015

A file photo of Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh chief Mohan Bhagwat. Photo: HT

2014’s RSS story

4 min read . 25 Dec 2014

One takeaway from the lives of men such as Rajat Sharma, Shekhar Gupta (pictured) and Ramoji Rao is the role of entrepreneurship in their ascent and in the kind of influence they wield. Photo: Mint

The ascent of media men

4 min read . 11 Dec 2014

A file photo of Saradha Group chairman Sudipta Sen (right) being escorted by police in Kolkata. Photo: Reuters

Saradha’s media legacy

5 min read . 27 Nov 2014

Information and broadcasting (I&B) minister Arun Jaitley. Photo: PTI

Priorities for Mr Jaitley

4 min read . 13 Nov 2014

For the BJP, a media owner’s allegiance is useful, particularly since in the case of Zee, there isn’t the slightest pretence of separation between Subhash Chandra and his media outlets. Photo: PTI

Media and politics in Haryana

5 min read . 31 Oct 2014

The researchers conclude that Gujarat seems to have tilted the balance in favour of the BJP. Clearly, media obsession with the Gujarat model paid off for Narendra Modi. Photo: PTI

Media exposure and voter behaviour

4 min read . 09 Oct 2014

PM Narendra Modi has become a serial newsmaker who keeps journalists busy, reporters and analysts alike. Photo: HT

Climate for media not exactly balmy

4 min read . 25 Sept 2014

Trai offered last month a long list of people who could not own media, raising the question of who could. It also came up with a formula for regulating cross-media ownership. Photo: Mint

Regulator versus broadcaster

4 min read . 11 Sept 2014

More than the grisly video put out by ISIS, another Foley video brings home the total vulnerability of a journalist drawn inexorably to the world’s theatres of long-running violence. Photo: Reuters

James Foley and conflict reporting

4 min read . 27 Aug 2014

In 2011-12, the operational cost of distributing Doordarshan’s signal was `723 crore. Of this, 88% was spent on terrestrial distribution, which reached 8% of the audience. Only 7% of the cost went towards reaching the 53% of the audience in cable and satellite households. And only 6% went towards reaching the 37% in direct-to-home, or DTH, households.

Prasar Bharati: Where is the money for programming?

7 min read . 15 Aug 2014

Trai preempts right in the beginning the don’t mess with my press freedom argument, stating, ‘the right to freedom of speech is essential for sustaining the vitality of democracy… The question that arises is whether reposing such a right in the media simultaneously casts an obligation on the media to convey information and news that is accurate, truthful and unbiased’. Photo: Indranil Bhoumik/Mint

Trai: Belling the media cat

4 min read . 13 Aug 2014

Today the quantum of health information on the broadcaster falls short of the needs. Except in Chhattisgarh, where for reasons explained later, it cannot be accessed. Photo: Indranil Bhoumik/Mint

How public broadcasting is missing its audience

7 min read . 12 Aug 2014

Agriculture, health and education-based programming, for instance, are quantitatively low in Doordarshan’s priorities, but ranked high among expressed viewership needs. Photo: Ramesh Pathania/Mint

Prasar Bharati: Programme, demand mismatch

5 min read . 12 Aug 2014

Twitter and Facebook as companies could end up being more concrete beneficiaries of the new Twitter mania than Indians who want their leaders to be more open. Photo: AFP

All those tweets…

4 min read . 07 Aug 2014