10/01/2003

The IOJ web site survives. I had kept Oct 1 as the deadline for its revival. I made it! The updates are a series of interviews of prominent people in blogosphere by Kiruba Shankar.
Watson Solomon's Journalism Online has also come aboard.
I, Subhash Rai, Chief Sub-editor, Frontline, Chennai, started my career in the software industry, moved on to online journalism, teaching new media, and now have settled down as a print journalist. That's the road traversed so far.
I worked for a couple of years as a programmer in Bangalore and then went to the United Arab Emirates. I came back to India and joined the Economic Times - Online (ET Online), then in Bangalore. The job involved programming, content development and maintaining the website. I then moved to Indya.com as the Operational Head of the news channel. After that, I moved on to journalism education. I joined the Indian Institute of Journalism and New Media as Assistant Professor and Director, Centre for New Media. Just after I left indya.com the new media façade unraveled. In a sense, I got a ringside view of the collapse.
I moderate an e-group Indian Online Journalism, which has been alive for more than three years now. I also edit the website for the group as <http://www.indianonlinejournalism.org/> . My blog is at <http://www.subhashrai.com/> .
At ACJ, I teach the New Media Elective. With a shifting goalpost like new media the game will remain as interesting as ever.
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This is my introduction. Does it sound okay?


9/29/2003

This is the Wikipedia Mass Media page. I have started the Mass Media in India section. Join in. I will write as much as possible about news media. I hope we will have people looking at other aspects of the media.