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Julieann Rohde
In January 2011, I found myself huddled in the basement of a refurbished textile factory in Mumbai unexpectedly pondering the future of digital news in India. I had just been hired as employee number three of a yet-to-be-named news and opinion website to be launched by Network 18, a sprawling Indian media conglomerate best known for operating Indian outposts of big US brands like CNN, CNBC, and MTV.
Sitting in the windowless conference room that January morning, I anticipated no more than novelty: to be part of an innovative, if modest, experiment in a still-developing media universe dominated by legacy giants.
Over the next four years, our website, unimaginatively but aptly named Firstpost, would ride a tidal wave of political turmoil in India, serendipitously aligned with a period of dizzying digital expansion. The newsroom was made up of a motley crew of renegade legacy media veterans, US returnees, and recent college graduates impatient with the decorum of Indian newspaper op-eds and the access-driven customs of TV journalism. As executive editor, I oversaw a staff committed to representing a riotous diversity of unvarnished opinion that reflected a new urban India no longer beholden to power or the powerful.
We annoyed everyone: liberals appalled by the unabashed right-wing cheerleaders; nationalist trolls whose displeasure was writ large on our comment boards; intellectuals who declared our headlines too brash; and the many readers who often deemed our English too highfalutin. Yet we grew and grew and grew, from 2.5 million unique visitors in its first year to 10 million in 2013 and 20 million in 2015. Our upward trajectory was driven in part by the propulsive expansion of internet users in India, a community that jumped from 125 million in 2011 to 277 million in 2015, when India surpassed the US in the number of people online, becoming second only to China. In 2014, Facebook India crossed the 100 million user mark, up from 41 million just three years earlier.
Her view undoubtedly feels ungenerous to its targets. As Wire founder Varadarajan is quick to point out, editorial quality and integrity do indeed have value in themselves, irrespective of the medium. They do not, however, guarantee survival in a constantly shifting online media market.
That kind of complacency is hardly unexpected in a media company whose digital arm, Times Internet and its 30-plus businesses, reaches an audience of more than 175 million Indians. They are so far ahead of the rest that their only competition is Facebook, with 195 million users in India.
If impact were measured by reach, most individual news startups would not count for very much. The biggest among them, Scroll.in, claims to attract 3.5 million unique visitors a month. The News Minute (3 million) and The Wire (1 million) are even smaller. The contrast is stark when compared to corporate-owned players or legacy digital sites. (These are self-reported Google Analytics numbers. Independent comScore numbers are abysmally inaccurate in India due to difficulties in sampling and the rapid shift to mobile. They do, however, reflect the same disparity in the relative reach of these sites.)
The digital medium has allowed good people to create very good journalism in India, but will it have relevance without a sufficiently large audience, or when dwarfed by the exponential growth of corporate-owned media outlets? Take, for instance, the story of the fired Outlook editor, which was diligently covered by all the independent news sites, but received little or no coverage in larger media outlets. The story died within days, creating barely a ripple. Sometimes, size matters. In India, it may even be required to sweep away the miasma of self-censorship.
ScoopWhoop started out unapologetically imitating BuzzFeed with India-themed listicles and other viral content, but has since moved into the broader terrain of news, creating a separate 17-member team helmed by more experienced (read, 30-something) journalists who cover top news stories, though perhaps not with the same tone or authority as The Wire or Scroll.
Websites like ScoopWhoop and TBI are following the very same path from building an audience to offering substantive reporting. While they are unlikely to seriously threaten a Times of India or Indian Express, Skok offers an instructive warning to other startups about the future of journalism, which will be shaped by this new generation of news producers and consumers.
There is hope that a chorus including everything from award-winning reporting by Scroll or The Wire to inspirational stories on The Better India, from a ScoopWhoop documentary to an Indian Express op-ed or a story filed by a farmer on his phone, can create a more democratic media and a more democratic nation.
The private and intimate act of engagement with the written word, which once took the form of underlined sentences and scribbles in margins, has found new, more public life in digital journalism with the advent of annotation software. The Washington Post has redeployed Genius, a tool created for music fans, as an instrument of political commentary. Where excerpts of original source material were once included as quotes in a story, context and comments are now embedded within the very object of analysis. Deepstream, a new tool in beta from the MIT Media Lab, allows users to layer information onto video feeds, which in turn helps newsrooms instantly contextualize live footage; think pop-up video meets Facebook Live. A perennial indicator of reader interest, annotation is coming of age as a significant re-visioning of our core roles in framing, explaining, and analyzing the news. What once was marginalia is now journalism.
"I thought we were better today than we were Friday, which is typically for this early in the season," UF head coach Andy Jackson said. "It was extremely hot and physical, and for us to have the team that we want to have, we have to play well in these conditions. We were okay today. I'm more satisfied today than I was Friday."
Florida won five of six singles matches and two of three doubles contests against the instate rival Hurricanes. Freshmen Nestor Briceno and Greg Ouellette collected victories in their respective singles matches for the second straight day. Briceno, ranked 102nd nationally, upset 78th-ranked Eric Hechtman 6-3, 6-4, while Ouellette topped Ryan Waits 6-2, 6-2.
"I thought I played well for my first time playing collegiate tennis. I'm off to a good start," Ouellette offered. "I've played Hechtman before and he's really talented, we've played long matches in the past. Today, I just put more balls in the court and he got a little impatient. I attacked when I need to and was able to get the win."
Chris joined FloridaGators.com in 2011 after nearly three decades as a sports reporter at newspapers in Tampa and Orlando, including 10 years covering the UF athletic program and another 10 covering the NFL.
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Modi and U.S. President Donald Trump have a lot in common. They are both rightwing populists who tapped into widespread anger among the electorate by vowing to take on corrupt and compromised establishments. They also harvested majoritarian resentments, successfully mobilizing Hindus and whites in their respective countries as voting blocs. And both leaders have strongman tendencies, impatient with democratic processes and norms.
Ever since Modi assumed office in May 2014, there have been continual mob killings (including lynchings) of people, mostly Muslims, suspected of trafficking in beef, a taboo for many Hindus.
Modi has a longtime association with an organized political movement, having been a part of the most prominent Hindu right group, the National Volunteer Corps, since he was eight years old. (Yes, you read that right.) An ex-member of the organization, Nathuram Godse, caused global shock waves on January 30, 1948, when he assassinated Mahatma Gandhi, supposedly for being too indulgent toward Muslims. It is that sectarian vision that Modi offers his country, on a spectrum that ranges from the patently absurd to the deathly serious.
For instance, there is an official attempt to impose vegetarianism on the populace, in keeping with the beliefs of certain Hindus. So the state-run airline Air India has started offering only vegetarian food to economy-class passengers on its domestic flights, a non-choice that was foisted upon me when I used the carrier to travel within the country during my recent visit.
Officials have justified the move as a cost-saving measure but, as The New York Times reports, many are viewing this as a move discriminatory toward meat-eaters, a category that not coincidentally includes Muslims and Christians. There has been a similarly ridiculous campaign to replace Muslim-sounding place names with official Hindu monikers. The most disturbing phenomenon, however, has been the killing of Muslims and targeted assassinations of secular intellectuals by emboldened Hindu right-fringe outfits.
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