Trying and Failing and Trying again: Work in the Media

Trying and Failing and Trying again: Work in the Media

Journalism

labour

newspaper

news agency

freelance

radio

autoethnography

media studies

This paper is an historical auto-ethnographic account by a middle aged journalist who has worked in the English language media in India for about 20 years. English language media staff is among the best paid in the country. Even so, work conditions are far from ideal, and the pandemic this year has rendered several journalists jobless. This is a personal account of one career trajectory that spans book publishing, work on national radio, newspapers and a news agency. Growth prospects are curtailed for women in the news media; one boss at the Times of India¸ India’s largest English daily, told the author that her “body language” betrayed a lack of interest in work.
 

Thomas, Rosamma

Artha Journal of Social Sciences; Vol. 19 No. 3 (2020): Artha Journal of Social Sciences; 61-70

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0975-329X

Centre for Publications, CHRIST (Deemed to be University), Bangalore

2020-12-10

Copyright (c) 2020 Artha Journal of Social Sciences

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