The transformation of journalism in India-the world's largest democracy and one of its fastest growing economies-has implications for journalism around the world. With approaching 100 round-the-clock news channels-unrivalled in any other country-India boasts the world's most linguistic diverse news landscape.(1)____ This offers exciting opportunities, as well challenges to professional journalists and scholars of international journalism.(2)____
The India Media Centre, the world's first academic centre which dedicated to studying globalizing tendencies of media in India, is organizing the pioneering conference to address the implications of this m4jor media development.(3)____(4)____ This international gathering will bring together journalists and journalism scholars around the world to examine the changing face of journalism in India and their impact on the rest of the world.(5)____(6)____
According to the World Association of Newspapers, the sale of newspapers in India is booming: circulation grew by 46 per cent between 2000 and 2008 and more than 99 million copies of newspapers were sold in India every day.(7)____ The Times of India is now the world's largest circulating, English-language "quality" newspaper.(8)____ From FM and community radio to online media, journalists are finding new ways to communicate with a requiring and fragmenting audience, including a young and vocal, middle-class diaspora. International media groups-from financial, to sport journalism to entertainment news-are extending and embedding their operations into that is one of the world's biggest news bazaars.(9)____(10)____