Televisionpoint.com Team
The Oxford University Press has published a book titled 'Making News: A Handbook of Media in Contemporary India' edited by Uday Sahay with a foreword by Robin Jeffrey. This book contains 36 articles written by the top names among the Indian media persons, media academics, PR and media marketing professionals in India. It has representations from the Print Media, the Electronic media, the Internet and the Radio. The authors are:

1 BP Sanjay (former Director, IIMC)
2 Sanjeev Srivastava (BBC)
3 Chandan Mitra (The Pioneer)
4 Kanchan Kumar (Research Fellow)
5 KS Sarma (CEO, Prasar Bharati)
6 Rajdeep Sardesai (Chief Editor, IBN)
7 Vir Sanghvi (Hindustan Times)
8 Shireen Sethi (former Channel Head, Sahara)
9 Mrinal Pande (Dainik Hindustan) 10 Sundeep Misra (Sports Journalist)
11 Y C Halan (former Editor, Financial Express)
12 Alka Saxena (Janmat Channel)
13 Raghu Rai (Photo Journalist)
14 Vartika Nanda (Associate Professor, IIMC)
15 Jyotsna Sahay (Freelancer)
16 Rajiv Kumar (Doordarshan)
17 Dinesh C Sharma (Dancer)
18 Sudhanshu Ranjan (Doordarshan)
19 Ziya-Us-Salam (The Hindu)
20 Ajai Shukla (NDTV)
21 Sidharth Mishra (The Pioneer)
22 Ajmal Jami (NDTV)
23 Navneet Anand (The Times of India)
24 Chandrakant P Singh (Professor, Jagran Media Institute)
25 Anubhav Tagore (The Times, USA)
26 Uday Sahay (DDG, Prasar Bharati)
27 Rakesh Belwal (Professor, Ethiopia)
28 Pavan Choudary (CEO, Vygon)
29 Arvind Sinha (CPI(ML)
30 S Y Quraishi (DG, NACO)
31 Alok Mehta ( Editor, Outlook)
32 Suhel Seth (PR Professional)
33 Akshay Rout (Director(News), AIR)
34 Vanita Kohli (Business World)
35 Neeraj Daftuar (PR Professional)
36 Amit Sharma (Professor, JNU)

The book gives a comprehensive account of the following news media issues:
The art and science of news reporting across television, print, internet and radio.
Reporting genres as different as politics, sports, business, entertainment and war.
The intricacies of news productions and news processes.
The global revolution in the news media and its impact on the Indian media scene.
In addition, the book takes stock of ethical issues that the news media grapples with everyday in India, ranging from accurate reporting, to balancing the need for advertising revenue with authenticity of information.

This book will be interest all those interested in media issues; more so
1.To the students of media who would find their role models’ views on news.
2.To the corporate communication professionals
3.To the policy makers.

The cost of the book is Rupees 675/-