JotCast | Panel discussion : What Lies Ahead for the Media in India? | 8/6/2019

Panel discussion : What Lies Ahead for the Media in India?

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2:44

Hello and welcome to the live coverage of the panel discussion on "What Lies Ahead for the Media in India?" The panelists are Alan Rusbridger, former Editor of The Guardian, Siddharth Varadarajan of The Wire, Marty Baron, Editor of the Washington Post and Ritu Kapur, co-founder of The Quint.

2:47

Rusbridger kicks off the discussion by saying: "Indian media was in a vulnerable position and Modi came and made it worse."

2:49

Varadarajan responds : "All the business models aside, most newspapers depend on ads rather than subscription. Now we're moving to digital, newspapers are realising that their revenues will dry up."

2:50

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Rusbridger asks Ritu Kapur: "How much do you agree with him?"

2:52

Kapur agrees with Varadarajan and says: "Binary of being nationalistic and anti nationalistic and focus is on sentiment and not fact."

Kapur also adds, "The threat of paid news is much larger. Earlier the arguments were more nuanced."

2:53

Marty Baron chimes in: "There are some parallels but we are not at that stage and we hope to not end up their, the constitution calls for freedom of expression."

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2:54

Marty Baron adds, "If the president wants the media outlets to be metaphors of his facts, it is a bit different from what's happening in India."

2:55

Varadarajan responds : Modi and Trump are quite different. Trump is way vicious in what he says about media, than Modi.

2:57

Varadarajan adds, "But in India, there are cases of legality where journalists get sued. Trump even though he is abusive conducts press conferences. But, Modi never does this."

2:58

Rusbridger asks, "Trump doesn't have many press conferences, does he?"

2:59

Baron responds, "Press conferences serve his purpose, he doesn't necessarily answer questions."

3:01

Does press conferences serve the interests of the public?

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Kapur chimes in, "Leadership is growing. The Quint and The Caravan are encouraging fact checking. Interaction with our reader is growing rapidly. They are sharing news with us which are being converted into blogs by them."

3:03

Rusbridger says, "I would love to hear from both of you on how one person can run different organisations, and how the ownership works in such organisations."

3:05

Varadarajan responds, "If we have the resources to set up a regular company like The Quint, we'd have gone down that road. But we haven't. Ownership and business model is important in doing what we do."

3:07

Kapur adds,"The fact that we don't have to worry about anything other than paying salaries and keeping the ship running, helps us to be free."

3:09

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3:10

Rusbridger wonders how Washington Post and NY Times are doing healthy journalism, how do you think the local papers perform?

3:11

Baron responds, "Crisis for journalism in America is that local journalism doesn't have a model yet that can be replicated. Unfortunately, many of them are owned by news houses who resist such pressures."

3:12

That wraps up our live coverage. Thank you for being with us.

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