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Pope Francis challenges Vatican's journalists: Who reads your news?

Pope Francis challenged the Vatican's in-house journalists Monday to essentially justify their continued work, asking them how many people actually consume their news in a critique of the office that costs the Holy See more than all its embassies around the world combined. Francis visited the Dicastry of Communications, Vatican Radio and the headquarters of the Vatican's newspaper, L'Osservatore Romano, which is marking its 160th anniversary. He appeared to use the occasion to lay down the gauntlet at a fraught financial time for the Holy See. Facing a major pension funding shortage and a projected 50 million euro (USD 61 million) deficit this year, Francis has ordered salary cuts from 3 per cent to 10 per cent for Vatican employees, both lay and religious, and paused seniority bonuses for two years. Francis has vowed not to fire anyone to offset the economic crisis created by COVID-19 and the pandemic-related shuttering of one of the Holy See's main sources of revenue, ticket sales

'Hitchiker's guide to democratic palsy'

Book review of Despite the State: Why India Lets Its People Down and How They Cope

News Corp strucks a global news deal with Alphabet's Google

The companies will develop a subscription platform, share advertising revenue through Google's ad technology services, build out audio journalism and develop video journalism by YouTube

Former FT editor names Business Standard among gold-standard publications

Lionel Barber, the former editor of the Financial Times, London, from 2005-2020, spoke of all these and more in an interview podcast on the Indian Journalism Review

Australia pushes laws to make Facebook, Google pay news outlets for content

Australia finalised plans to make Facebook and Google pay its media outlets for news content, a world-first move aimed at protecting independent journalism

Arnab Goswami's arrest: Will the saga lead to introspection in the media?

The bigger lesson in this saga is for the Indian media to recognise the dangers of becoming the handmaiden of the Establishment

Press Association condemns sealing of newspaper office in Srinagar

The Press Association on Wednesday condemned the "abrupt sealing" of the Srinagar office of Kashmir Times newspaper and demanded its immediate opening

Britain's Independent news website plans India, China editions

The Independent's been able to grow during the pandemic by licensing content and other digital services, while reducing other costs and keeping overall headcount low

Harold Evans: A trailblazing editor who set journalism's gold standard

Evans died of congestive heart failure in New York, according to his wife Tina Brown

SC says need to regulate electronic media; govt bats for press freedom

There is a need to regulate the electronic media as most of the channels are running for TRPs, leading to more sensationalism, SC said even as the Centre batted for journalistic freedom

James Murdoch resigns from News Corp's board over editorial differences

New York-based News Corp also publishes major papers in Australia and the UK and owns the HarperCollins book publisher

Three Indian journalists win Pulitzer Prize 2020 in feature photography

Yasin and Khan are journalists based in Srinagar, while Anand is based in Jammu.

With facts without fear: Why responsible journalism is powerful in crisis

To mark the World Press Freedom Day on May 3, journalists talk about how upholding the profession becomes more important than ever

Job losses, attack on press freedom: Journalism hit hard by coronavirus

Three out of four journalists have faced restrictions, obstruction or intimidation while covering the coronavirus crisis

Best of BS Opinion: Quarantined lives, journalism in time of corona & more

From rising number of Covid-19 cases in India to PM Modi's attempt for social mobilisation, Business Standard brings you top opinion pieces of the day

Shekhar Gupta: Journalism in the time of corona

Covid-19 is the biggest story of our lives and people expect us to be around, watching, reporting, editing, recording this for posterity and blowing the whistle to draw attention to injustices

Traditional media should introspect on its role in society: Prez Kovind

"The project of democracy is incomplete without informed citizens which means, without unbiased journalism," he said

Abstinence from the news

The reason Stop Reading the News gave the reviewer a pause for thought is that it was endorsed -sort of -by Alan Rusbridger, former editor of The Guardian

India important for New York Times, visiting to understand it better: CEO

We are not tying up with anyone in India, nor are we looking at distribution or investment, says CEO Mark Thompson

Business Standard's Namrata Acharya wins The Stateman's Cushrow Irani Prize

She gets the award in the Environmental Reporting category for her story on the risks villagers face from tiger attacks in Sunderban Forest Reserve