About the Editor:
Dilip N. Patel is in the media since more than a decade. Today he is the editor of Daily News Paper Western India Times. His herculean and stringent efforts is seeing the rise of his newspaper. He is one such human being who is an affluent social worker too. Beginning as a reporter in the entertainment section for various newspapers, he is now the top-notch editor of Daily News Paper Western India Times
Responsibilities of the Editor:
Newspaper editors have the responsibility of deciding the news stories, the fairness in articles and the headlines. Editing a newspaper is extremely rewarding and tough too keeping in tab with the scarcity of resources and the demands of the internet. A creative mind, an eye for detail and love for the language is a must. Publications that are strapped for cash are facing big commercial challenges. There are also huge commercial responsibilities. Leadership is about creating a moral vision for you and your team and management is the activity of getting them there. Supreme committed loyalties like the truth, integrity and reputation keep the publication alive and going.
The Birth of Print Media:
Print media has been active since 1605. According to the World Association of Newspapers, Johann Carolus was the first German publisher of the first newspaper, called The Relation -allerFürnemmen und gedenckwürdigen Historien (Account of all distinguished and commemorable news) in German language. While in Asia, Irishman, James Augustus Hicky started Bengal Gazette an English newspaper published from Kolkata (then Calcutta) in 1780. On the regional front, a Bengali weekly newspaper, Samachar Darpan was published by the Baptist Missionary Society in 1818. Gujarati newspaper Bombay Samachar founded in 1822 is the oldest newspaper in Asia and still in print. 1826 saw the first Hindi-language newspaper, Udant Martand (The Rising Sun) published from Kolkata by Pt. Jugal Kishore Shukla.
Environment:
India, our country is densely populated and estimated to be more than 135 crore and is divided by many local languages. Hereto, recalling a famous quote on journalism by Gilbert Keith Chesterton (English writer, poet, philosopher, dramatist, journalist, orator and critic), “Journalism is popular, but it is popular mainly as fiction. Life is one world, and life seen in the newspapers another.”
The Golden Age of Journalism?
With the rise of television screens, channels, mobiles, smart phones and above all internet facilities; the passive readers’ eager to get hold of a copy of their favourite hard copies of the print medium – newspaper or magazine has diminished drastically. The fall of print journalism and downsizing of publication has been going on for years. The expertise to drown in provocative and illuminative writing and reporting, framing and opining has kept the print medium alive. With curating abilities and fascinating editorial has always appealed the experimental world of readers.
DILIP N. PATEL
Editor – Western India Times & Mumbai Tarang
