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'''Sevanti Ninan''' is an Indian [[journalist]], [[columnist]], [[researcher]] and [[media critic]].<ref>{{Cite news|last=Gettleman|first=Jeffrey|last2=Kumar|first2=Hari|last3=Bhagat|first3=Shalini Venugopal|date=2020-10-09|title=Indian Police Accuse Popular TV Station of Ratings Fraud|language=en-US|work=[[The New York Times]]|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2020/10/09/world/asia/india-republic-tv-ratings.html|url-status=live|access-date=2020-12-07|issn=0362-4331}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|last=Guha|first=Paranjoy|last2=Seabright|first2=Alice|date=12 August 2011|title=Murdochisation' of the Indian media|url=https://frontline.thehindu.com/cover-story/article30176436.ece|url-status=live|archive-url=|archive-date=|access-date=2020-12-07|website=[[Frontline (magazine)|Frontline]]|publisher=[[The Hindu]]|language=en}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|last=|first=|date=17 August 2020|title=Ex SC/HC Judges Lead Support by 3,000 Eminent Persons for Prashant Bhushan|url=https://thewire.in/rights/prashant-bhushan-solidarity-statement-contempt-supreme-court|url-status=live|archive-url=|archive-date=|access-date=2020-12-07|website=[[The Wire (India)|The Wire]]}}</ref> She is the founding editor of ''The Hoot'', which was the first [[media watchdog]] in India.<ref name=":0">{{Cite web|last=Chowdhury|first=Shreya Roy|date=27 May 2018|title=Finding money and senior staff has proved difficult: Founder explains why ‘The Hoot’ is scaling down|url=https://scroll.in/article/873423/finding-money-and-senior-staff-has-proved-difficult-founder-explains-why-the-hoot-is-scaling-down|url-status=live|archive-url=|archive-date=|access-date=2020-12-07|website=[[Scroll.in]]|language=en-US}}</ref> Ninan was the recipient of the [[Chameli Devi Jain Award for Outstanding Women Mediapersons]] in 1989,<ref name="ground">{{cite news|last=Nair|first=Supriya|date=30 May 2012|title=Breaking new ground|work=[[Livemint]]|url=https://www.livemint.com/Leisure/d1M0PTCpcyxced7WllZtAP/Breaking-new-ground.html|url-status=live}}</ref> and is a visiting scholar ([[fellowship]]) at the [[Center for the Advanced Study of India]], an academic center associated with the [[University of Pennsylvania]].<ref name=":1">{{Cite web|last=|first=|date=2013-08-19|title=Sevanti Ninan|url=https://casi.sas.upenn.edu/visiting/ninan|url-status=live|archive-url=|archive-date=|access-date=2020-12-07|website=[[Center for the Advanced Study of India]] (CASI)|language=en}}</ref> She is also the author of the book, ''Headlines from the Heartland'' which is described as the first in-depth study into the growth of the expanding [[Hindi language]] newspaper industry in India.<ref>{{Cite web|last=|first=|date=2020-12-06|title=Headlines From the Heartland|url=https://us.sagepub.com/en-us/nam/headlines-from-the-heartland/book231907|url-status=live|archive-url=|archive-date=|website=[[SAGE Publications Inc]]|language=en}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|last=Vardhan|first=Anand|date=27 May 2020|title=Whatever happened to Bihar’s bold local press?|url=https://www.newslaundry.com/2020/05/27/whatever-happened-to-bihars-bold-local-press|url-status=live|archive-url=|archive-date=|access-date=2020-12-08|website=[[Newslaundry]]}}</ref><br />
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Ninan is a regular columnist at [[The Telegraph (Kolkata)|''The Telegraph'']] and has formerly been a columnist at several major newspapers including the ''[[The Hindu]]'', ''[[The Indian Express]]'' and [[Mint (newspaper)|''Mint'']], the financial newspaper founded by ''[[The Wall Street Journal]]'' and ''[[Hindustan Times]].''<ref>{{Cite web|last=|first=|date=2013-09-17|title=Sevanti Ninan|url=https://jlflitfest.org/bnw-speaker/sevanti-ninan|url-status=live|archive-url=|archive-date=|website=[[Jaipur Literature Festival]]|language=en}}</ref> She began her career in journalism at the ''Hindustan Times'' and subsequently became a correspondent and later an editor with ''The Indian Express''.<ref name=":1" /> In 2001, she founded ''The Hoot'' as a media watchdog which was re-configured into an archive and media research resource around 2018.<ref name=":0" /><br />
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== Bibliography ==<br />
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* ''Rajasthan'' (1980) [[Roli Books]]. {{ISBN|978-1-87-046143-6}}.<br />
* ''Through the Magic Window: Television and Change in India'' (1995) [[Penguin Books]]. {{ISBN|978-0-14-025631-4}}.<br />
* ''Plain Speaking with Chandrababu Naidu'' (2000) [[Viking Press]]. {{ISBN|978-0-67-089244-0}}.<br />
* ''Headlines from the Heartland: Reinventing the Hindi Public Sphere'' (2007) [[SAGE Publications]]. {{ISBN|978-93-5280-059-9}}.<br />
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