Publications
One of the stated objectives of The Media Foundation is to sponsor, publish, or cause to be published, research studies, publications, monographs, articles and reports in print, film or any other medium, on subjects related to the Indian media.
To this end, in 2001 TMF launched The Hoot, the country’s first media-watch website, which soon became a widely respected resource and a repository of deeply-researched journalistic and scholarly articles on developments in India’s media landscape, be it related to media practice, media policy, media business and the like. Edited by journalist Sevanti Ninan, The Hoot had a magnificent run for 18 years, after which, unfortunately, it ceased operation.
Today, the articles published in The Hoot between 2001 and 2018 are archived with the Archives of Contemporary India Project at Ashoka University. The project aims at archiving and preserving primary source material for the study of the history of modern and contemporary India.
The Hoot archive may be accessed at http://asu.thehoot.org/
Books
Several books have been published under the aegis of The Media Foundation.
Beyond Those Headlines: Insiders on the Indian Press
BY The Media Foundation
Allied Publishers, 1996.
Independence and the Indian Press: Heirs to a Great Tradition
BY N S Jagannathan
Konark Publishers, 1999
Making News
BY Ammu Joseph
Konark Publishers, 2000
Making News, Breaking News, Her Own Way: Stories by Winners of the Chameli Devi Jain Award for Outstanding Woman Media Person
Edited by Latika Padgaonkar and Shubha Singh
Tranquebar, 2012.
The Hoot Reader: Media Practice in Twenty-first Century India
Edited by Sevanti Ninan and Subarno Chattarji
Oxford University Press, 2013.