The Story of Media

The Story of Media

Pre historic period
 Ancient caves paintings
 Humans became verbal
 Birth of language
 Age of orality
 Invention of writing

Background
 3rd century first paper made in China
 Koreans made paper and movable types
 9th century first book of wooden impression ‘Hiraksutra(868 A.D)’
 10th century Egyptians made improved form of paper

The birth of printing
o 1450 first printing press using movable types by John Gutenberg (Germany)
o 1556 in Goa Bible was published
o 1664 Mumbai Bhimji Parikh started a printed press, calendars and marriage cards were published
o 1780 James Augustus Hikki published ‘Bengal Gazette’ (Calcutta)
o 1826 first Hindi newspaper ‘Udant Martand’ (Calcutta)
o Publisher Yugal Kishore Shukla (Kanpur)

Cinema
 1895 Lumiere brothers made narrative films
 ‘Arrival of a Train’, ‘Watering a Waterman’, ‘Workers leaving a factory’
 1896, 7 July first film screened in India in Mumbai’s Watson Hotel
 1913 first Indian silent film ‘Raja Harishchander’ by Dada Shaheb Phalke
 1931 first Indian talky ‘Alam Ara’ by Ardesher Irani

Radio
 1901 Marconi transmit radio signals from Britain to Newfoundland
 1920 first regular radio station in Pittsburgh, United States
 1922 BBC started in Britain
 1921 first radio transmission by a radio club of Mumbai
 1927 first regular service by Indian Broadcasting Company in Mumbai

Television
 1923 Vladimir Zworykin invents iconoscope and kinescope, making television possible
 1926 John Baird demonstrated first television in London
 1936 BBC radio started from Alexandra Palace, London
 1939 Television was demonstrated in world trade fair of New York
 1940 Daily television broadcast started in America
 1959, 15 Sept. first television in India

Computer
 Seventies in Europe and America
 Nineties in India
 1990 internet took shape
 1995 advent of Internet in India

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Bhartiya Electronic Media (Hindi)
Prabhat Prakashan, 2007 ,
Pages-350, Price – Rs.350.
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This is a book about the history of electronic media in India. It provides chapter-wise systematic details about growth and development of:
• All India Radio
• Private FM channels
• Doordarshan
• Private television channels
• Indian television journalism
• Computer and internet

Television Patrakarita- Ek Parichaya (Hindi)
Shri Natraj Publications, 2009 , Pages-215, Price- Rs.350
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This is a basic text book on television journalism. The co-author in this book is Ms. Kirti Singh. It covers:
• Basic concepts of television news
• Writing for television news
• Structure and functioning of news channels
• The process of reporting for television
• Presentation of television news

Key concepts covered: PTC, Vox Pop, Run Down/Run order, VO, News Packaging formats, bite selection, Input-output-assignment-coordination desk, news graphics, research for news, television interview etc.