newswatch.in is an online monitor of the news industry and the journalism profession. The site was launched on August 1, 2005. newswatch.in, to borrow a worn-out dotgone cliche, is a portal. To steal another hackneyed phrase from the zillions who are quoted day in and out, we are "different". newswatch.in is a website which provides news (and occasionally, views) about what is pertinent to newspeople.

Broadly speaking, newswatch.in is indeed a media site. But we desist from dubbing ourselves "media people". Even advertising and PR professionals are mediapersons. We deal with journalists, journalism, and what is of immediate relevance for journalists. To be specific still, we deal with the news media. Everything else is secondary.

On one hand, you have the big "media" sites which have precious little to do with journalists, but more to do with advertising, marketing, and sales. On the other, you have the media critics. That is why you have this site. newswatch.in does not stand anywhere in between; we are different. Browse through this site, and you will agree why.

newswatch.in publishes information from sites / newspapers / magazines etc, which we perceive as having some credibility. We don't claim authenticity for any information provided by others since we believe the credibility of the information always lies with the source. All articles, especially those which have been published elsewhere, are properly attributed.

Unlike normal blogs, this site publishes relatively long extracts from elsewhere on the World Wide Web. This is done with a reason. Quite often, sites change their links or the articles are deleted from the archives altogether. Since we are here to disseminate information, it would be self-defeating if we provide links that lead nowhere. Moreover, since we don't claim copyright over anything which has not been written by us, it should not matter. We abide by a crystal clear fair use policy.

The newswatch.in site currently has seven channels:

• NewsBlog: Content presented in a blog-type format. Scope: International
• News Features: Content presented in a blog-type format. Scope: International
• Impressions: First-hand accounts
• Research: Original media content analysis reports
• Media Culpa: Blog that looks at grammr, usage, style and bias in the Indian news media
• The Expressionist: Blog that documents assaults on freedom of expression in India
• Newspaedia: Ongoing project that is a ready-reckoner of press freedom and journalism

[To browse through the sections, please find the relevant link above the masthead on this page.]