{"id":399,"date":"2013-05-09T14:39:18","date_gmt":"2013-05-09T09:09:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kiruba.com\/press\/?p=399"},"modified":"2017-11-24T17:56:14","modified_gmt":"2017-11-24T12:26:14","slug":"whither-press-freedom-scribes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kiruba.com\/press\/whither-press-freedom-scribes\/","title":{"rendered":"Whither press freedom: Scribes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>Chennai: <\/strong>The US consulate in the city organised a discussion on Friday on the social media\u2019s impact on traditional media, marking world press freedom day, but journalist unions and organisations in the city failed to observe the day and said hardly any press freedom was available for scribes to celebrate the day.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Madras Reporters Gui\u00ad\u00adld president R. Rangaraj wondered about the freedom of press. \u201cWhere is the freedom of press?\u201d he asked. Expressing similar thoughts, Madras Union of Journalists president R. Mohan said media should be more independent.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The journalists\u2019 body in the city, however did not hold any event to mark the day\u00a0Earlier in the day, at the US consulate, discussions involved the participation of social media experts who conversed over the risk the three traditional me\u00addias (print, television, and radio) will confront due to the dominant social media of the present day.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Will social media overtake traditional media as the dominant news source?\u00a0 What factors will im\u00adpact social media\u2019s pre\u00adva\u00adlence as the dominant news source \u2013 will it be infrastructure, youth, or other reasons, were the queries raised and discussed by panelists Chennai press attache d Heera Kaur Kam\u00ad\u00adboj of US Cons\u00adulate, Sorav Jain, thinker in chief of ec\u00adho VME, and Kiruba Sha\u00adnkar, CEO of Business Blogging.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Chennai: The US consulate in the city organised a discussion on Friday on the social media\u2019s impact on traditional media, marking world press freedom day, but journalist unions and organisations in the city failed to observe the day and said hardly any press freedom was available for scribes to celebrate the day. Madras Reporters Gui\u00ad\u00adld [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":481,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[23],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kiruba.com\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/399"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kiruba.com\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kiruba.com\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kiruba.com\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kiruba.com\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=399"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.kiruba.com\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/399\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":565,"href":"https:\/\/www.kiruba.com\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/399\/revisions\/565"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kiruba.com\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/481"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kiruba.com\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=399"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kiruba.com\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=399"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kiruba.com\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=399"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}