Jaiteh, Vanessa Flora, author

Clarke, James, 1934- author

Mwenda, George Mutegi, author

Shorrocks, Victor M., author

Nieder, Rolf, author

Aglave, Balaji, author

Hajek, Ann E., author

Niks, R. E. (Rients Engelhard), 1953- author

Blood, Kate

While media organisations invest money, time and effort to create content, the digital platforms display the content without paying for it. Digital cos and their advocates argue that the inclusion of the content on their site or engine has directed traffic to news cos. But this traffic comes stripped of revenue, which is collected by Google and Facebook.

Facebook and Google cornered nearly 70 per cent (Rs 11,500 crore) of online ad revenues from India in 2018-19, a market pegged at Rs 28,000 crore by 2022. The Government of India must resist a digital colonisation, where the sweat and toil of Indians is drained out of the country while local communities and businesses are destroyed.

While ‘Ramayan’ has clocked highest viewership for any show on a Hindi GEC in recent times, due to ‘Mahabharat’ DD Bharati entered in the top five channels’ list for the first time ever.

Speaking on the role of authentic and informative content, Meera said, “Digital is brilliant as it has destroyed information asymmetry."

TV audiences grew as the entire country came under a lockdown from March 25. Initially, news and movies were the prime genres which were driving the growth, but the introduction of classics like Ramayan by national broadcaster DD helped the general entertainment channels segment as well.

The minister told office bearers of the Indian Broadcasting Foundation (IBF) on Friday that he will consult with the Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (Trai) on changes in the tariff order and its recommendations on the rating agency BARC India.

Permits with a five-year validity, expanded scope and easier clearance for non-news channels to cover events live, and higher preference to Indian satellites to uplink signals — these are among the new guidelines that the government has proposed for TV channels.

The cacophonous physical world has been replaced by a virtual life — streaming via cable, broadband and 4G.

The Association of Publishers in India has written to commerce minister Piyush Goyal seeking the inclusion of books in the list of essential goods that consumers should be allowed during the current lockdown at least via online retailing.

Neither the mahatma's murder, nor the Babri demolition was a result of madness. Astute men and women planned both, funded them, and provided logistical and ideological support

Researchers have discovered the first ancestor on the family tree that contains most modern-day animals, including humans, a finding that sheds more light on the origins and evolution of the animal kingdom.

NASA on Wednesday announced that scientists have discovered an Earth-size exoplanet orbiting in its star's habitable zone, the area around a star where a rocky planet could support liquid water. It added that a team of transatlantic scientists using reanalyzed data from NASA’s Kepler space telescope, made the discovery.

A new study conducted by geoscientists from Aarhus University and the University of California, Davis has found that the Earth's molten core may be leaking heavy isotopes of iron.

The three companies, which include firms of tech billionaires Elon Musk and Jeff Bezos, will share $967 million from NASA, though specific amounts each company will receive were not immediately known.

The Eta Aquarid meteors make up the debris trail of Halley’s Comet, which passes by Earth every 76 years.

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