Trying and Failing and Trying again: Work in the Media

Dublin Core

Title

Trying and Failing and Trying again: Work in the Media

Subject

Journalism
labour
newspaper
news agency
freelance
radio
autoethnography
media studies

Description

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.
 

Creator

Thomas, Rosamma

Source

Artha Journal of Social Sciences; Vol. 19 No. 3 (2020): Artha Journal of Social Sciences; 61-70
0000-0000
0975-329X

Publisher

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

Date

2020-12-10

Rights

Copyright (c) 2020 Artha Journal of Social Sciences
http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0

Relation

Format

application/pdf

Language

eng

Type

info:eu-repo/semantics/article
info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion
Peer-reviewed Article
text

Identifier

Citation

Rosamma Thomas, Trying and Failing and Trying again: Work in the Media, Centre for Publications, CHRIST (Deemed to be University), Bangalore, 2020, accessed October 30, 2024, https://igi.indrastra.com/items/show/498

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