By Rami Alhames This post is part of our special coverage Syria Protests 2011/13 [1] During the last 10 years, around 10 million children are estimated to have been killed as a result of war, reports the Children’s Rights Portal [2]. The site categorizes child war victims as civilian victims, soldiers, displaced, orphans, wounded or handicapped, […]
Reliance Industries to support to Mumbai surveillance project
<p>Mukesh Ambani-led Reliance Industries Limited (RIL), in association with Siemens AG, has joined forces along with other leading private sector companies to support an initiative by the Maharashtra state government that aims to secure Mumbai by installing home land security systems, such as video surveillance cameras, command and control centers and data serves across the […]
The Phantom Growth of China’s Ghost Cities
Bloomberg has a new video series out called "China’s Ghost Cities." (You can watch the first segment here on YouTube). The reporter, Adam Johnson, describes how the Chinese government is building massive cities that no one lives in yet. The expectation is that China is going to "grow" into these cities. A remarkable […]
Backup story
Every story has its own backup story.In television news, duration of each backup stories should be 40 to 50 seconds.For instance,when the police bursts a inter-state car theft racket,the appropriate backup story could be the latest technologies to prevent car theft or when police seizes a large amount of coins,you could do the reason behind […]
Conduct investigation independently like traditional muckrakers
In 2008,a major news story that dominated the local TV stations in Calcutta for several weeks was the death of a bright young man.His body was found dead beside railway tracks near Calcutta.I narrate the story in a nutshell.Rizwanur, 30, was found dead between Dumdum and Bidhannagar Road railway station on 22Th September 2007,body covered […]
Backup story must be compact in nature
Every story has its own backup story.In television news duration of each backup stories should be 50 to 60 seconds.For instance,when the police bursts a inter-state car theft racket,the appropriate backup story could be the latest technologies to prevent car theft or when police seizes a large amount of coins,you could do the reason behind […]