Editors Guild of India webinar on reporting from conflict zones
The Editors Guild of India has recently announced a new series of webinars called Unheard Voices: Reporting from Conflict Zones. As part of the series, EGI will be inviting seasoned journalists to share their experiences and challenges of reporting from conflict areas.
The first edition of the series is dedicated to ‘Reporting from North-East India’, and will be held on 15 December 2020, at 1600 hrs IST, on Zoom.
The speakers for the first edition are Sanjoy Hazarika, Assam; Teresa Rehman, Assam; Ranju Dodum, Arunachal Pradesh; and Pradip Phanjoubam, Manipur.
Sanjoy Hazarika is a human rights activist, scholar, author, journalist, and filmmaker recognized internationally for designing and developing innovative strategies for inclusive health and governance and is the International Director of CHRI.
Teresa Rehman is an award-winning journalist based in North-East India. She worked at India Today, The Telegraph (India), and Tehelka, before she began editing the Thumb Print.
Ranju Dodum is a journalist who has written for various publications such as The Telegraph (India), Washington Post, The Citizen, The Hindu, Mongabay, and LiveMint.
Pradip Phanjoubam is the editor of Imphal Free Press and the author of The Northeast Question: Conflicts and Frontiers.
The webinar is the first initiative of the newly constituted program committee. The committee has been formed to put together programs that bring to fore issues concerning press freedom as well as create forums for sharing ideas, debates, and perspectives that lend towards serving the overall mission of the Guild.
The program committee consists of- Kumkum Chaddha (convenor), Sanjay Pugalia, Sankarshan Thakur, Sunita Aron, Alok Joshi, Sanjeev Srivastava, and Vijay Naik, besides the office bearers of the Guild.
RSVP for the event by sending an email to info@editorsguild.in
2023 promises an interesting ride for print in India
Indian Printer and Publisher founded in 1979 is the oldest B2B trade publication in the multi-platform and
multi-channel IPPGroup. While the print and packaging industries have been resilient in the past 33 months since the pandemic lockdown of 25 March 2020, the commercial printing and newspaper industries have yet to recover their pre-Covid trajectory.
The fragmented commercial printing industry faces substantial challenges as does the newspaper industry.
While digital short-run printing and the signage industry seem to be recovering a bit faster, ultimately
their growth will also be moderated by the progress of the overall economy. On the other hand book
printing exports are doing well but they too face several supply-chain and logistics challenges.
The price of publication papers including newsprint has been high in the past year while availability is diminished by several mills shutting down their publication paper and newsprint machines in the past four years. Indian paper mills are also exporting many types of paper and have raised prices for Indian printers. To some extent, this has helped in the recovery of the digital printing industry with its on-demand short-run and low-wastage paradigm.
Ultimately digital print and other digital channels will help print grow in a country where we are still far behind in our paper and print consumption and where digital is a leapfrog technology that will only increase the demand for print in the foreseeable future. For instance, there is no alternative to a rise in textbook consumption but this segment will only reach normality in the next financial year beginning on 1 April 2023.
Thus while the new normal is a moving target and many commercial printers look to diversification, we believe that our target audiences may shift and change. Like them, we will also have to adapt with agility to keep up with their business and technical information needs.
Our 2023 media kit is ready, and it is the right time to take stock and reconnect with your potential markets and customers. Print is the glue for the growth of liberal education, new industry, and an emerging economy. We seek your participation in what promises to be an interesting ride.