Sevanti Ninan is an Indian

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and

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. She is the founding editor of ''The Hoot'', which was the first media watchdog in India. Ninan was the recipient of the

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in 1989, and is a visiting scholar (

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) at the Center for the Advanced Study of India, an academic center associated with the

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. 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

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newspaper industry in India. Ninan is a regular columnist at ''The Telegraph'' and has formerly been a columnist at several major newspapers including ''

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'', ''

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'' and ''Mint'', the financial newspaper founded by ''

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'' and ''

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.'' She began her career in journalism at the ''Hindustan Times'' and subsequently became a correspondent and later an editor with ''The Indian Express''. In 2001, she founded ''The Hoot'' as a media watchdog which was re-configured into an archive and media research resource around 2018.

Bibliography

* ''Rajasthan'' (1980)

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. . * ''Through the Magic Window: Television and Change in India'' (1995)

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. . * ''Headlines from the Heartland: Reinventing the Hindi Public Sphere'' (2007)

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