• Headlines from the Heartland: Sevanti Ninan
  Headlines from the Heartland is the first in-depth study of the ongoing newspaper revolution in the Hindi-speaking states of India.Read more.
  To see a review: Click here
  
  

• Whose News?: The Media and Women's Issues (Second edition)
  Edited by Ammu Joseph and Kalpana Sharma, Sage (2006)
  This is the second edition of the highly successful and pioneering first edition (SAGE 1994), which analysed the coverage of issues of particular concern to women in the mainstream media in India over the eventful decade of 1978-1987. Read more.

• The Indian Media Business
  By Vanita Kohli-Khandekar
  The revised edition of the best-selling book The Indian Media Business presents a comprehensive analysis of the current state of the Indian media industry. Read more.
  Publisher: Sage Publications India Pvt Ltd
  Price: Rs 395
  
  
• JOURNALISTAS: 100 Years of the Best Writing and Reporting by Women Journalists.
  Edited by Eleanor Mills with Kira Cochrane.
  Read this review by Jill Abramson, New York Times
  
  
• Women and Media — A Critical Introduction by Carolyn M. Byerly & Karen Ross. See the book flyer [.PDF 168KB]
  The book is a thoughtful cross-cultural examination of the ways in which women have worked inside and outside mainstream media organizations since the 1970s. Read this and this.
  Publisher: Blackwell
  
  
• Making News: Women in Journalism
  By Ammu Joseph with a foreword by Nirmala Lakshman
  It brings together the personal stories and professional assessments of more than 200 women, including familiar names such as Bachi Karkaria, Kalpana Sharma, Malini Parthasarathy, Mrinal Pande, Shobhaa De and Tavleen Singh. Capturing the experiences, opinions and distinct attitudes of a wide range of female journalists in print media, this book offers key insights into their views on their profession in general, as well as their perceptions of their own individual roles. Read more.
  Publisher: Penguin Books India
  
  
• Making News: A Handbook of Media in Contemporary India
  Edited by Uday Sahay with a foreword by Robin Jeffrey
  This book contains 36 articles written by the top names among the media persons, media academics, PR and media marketing professionals in India. It has major representations from the print media, the electronic media, the Internet and the radio.
  Publisher: Oxford University Press
  Price: Rs 675
  
  
• Practising Journalism— Values, Constraints, Implications
  Edited by Nalini Rajan
  Showcasing a vast spectrum of practices and trends in present-day journalism, this exciting collection of original essays critically analyses the development and expansion of the profession against the background of the increasing scepticism and pragmatism affecting it. At a time when the journalistic ethic of imparting truth to society at large is being challenged by market-driven forces, this volume reflects upon the struggle to sustain this ideal in various facets of the profession. Read more
  
  
• Storylines (Conversations with Women Writers)
  Edited by Ammu Joseph, Vasanth Kannabiran, P. Lalitha Kumari, Ritu Menon & Gouri Salvi
  The 17 writers in this anthology are among the most widely acclaimed women writing in India today. They represent a true cross-section of society in terms of location, age, caste, community or religion, and genre and unfold a rich tapestry of experience and insight across languages and regions; gender and genre; caste and community.Read More.
  
  
• Just Between Us (Women Speak About Their Writing)
  Edited by Ammu Joseph, Vasanth Kannabiran, Volga, Ritu Menon & Gouri Salvi.
  The interviews in this volume are the outcome of a series of workshops held with women writers during 1999-2001, on the question of gender-based censorship and related issues. Nearly 200 writers from ten Indian languages met to talk about the circumstances in which they write-and in which they are read and written about. Read More.
  

• The Rape of News: The Ethics (or the Lack of it )
  Published by: Frog Books
  Editor: Sunil Poolani
  As the name suggests, the book questions the role of the Indian media in today's context. The contributors in the volume include: Dilip D'Souza, Lina Mathias, Meena Menon, Sevanti Ninan, Frederick Noronha, Meher Pestonji, Nilanjana S Roy, S Sowmya, Farzana Versey and Shivam Vij.
  For more information, visit their website.
  
  
• Our bodies, Ourselves for the new century
  This book reflects the vital health concerns of women of diverse ages, ethnic and racial backgrounds and sexual orientations. Topics explored in this range from living a healthy life, to relationships, sexuality, childbearing, and growing older, to dealing with the medical system and organizing for change. This is a book for women of all generations to use, to rely on, and to share with others. Visit their website.

• This side of doctoring: reflections from women in medicine
  edited by Eliza Lo Chin
  
  This book is an anthology of stories, poems, essays and quotations interwoven like a quilt to capture the essence of being 'a woman and a doctor' in America. It tries to reflect the sentiments of more than 140 contributors, who besides being women doctors are also daughters, wives, mothers, teachers, students and community leaders-each role demanding a fair degree of skill and expertise.
  

• Fragments of Grace: My search for meaning in the strife of South Asia
  by Pamela Constable
  
  Based on her experience in South Asia as a foreign correspondent for the Washington Post, Pamela Constable chronicles the signs of humanity and dignity in societies rife with violence, poverty, prejudice and greed. This book is a personal exploration of the rich but solitary life of a foreign correspondent, set against a regional backdrop of extraordinary political and religious tumult.
  
  
• The Unheard Scream: Reproductive Health and Women's Lives in India
  Panos Institute, India and Zubaan Publications (formerly Kali for Women) have come out with the new publication containing the best of long essays that emerged from three cycles of the Panos media fellowship programme on reproductive health and rights of women in India.
  
  The book is priced at Rs. 400.
  
  For more information, click here

• The Indian Media Business
  Published by Sage Publications India Pvt Ltd
  by Vanita Kohli, Senior Editor - Media, Businessworld, New Delhi.
  
  This is the first book to examine all five major segments of the Indian mass media industry — print, television, film, music and radio — in a single book and that too, from a business perspective. Based on her experience as a media writer, Vanita Kohli comprehensively covers all important topics and provides many unusual insights into the industry.
  
  This book is priced at Rs 280 (paper) and is available at: www.indiasage.com.
  
  
• 'Behind The News: Voices From Goa's Press'
  A collaboratively-written e-book critiquing the practice of journalism in Goa. The book is a compilation of 21 essays (written by a total of 20 journalists or former journalists, after collaborating over the Net) that seek to explain how the media has worked over the past 40 years in the former Portuguese colony.
  

  The e-book is available for free download from:
  http://www.mediaah.com/

  It can also be downloaded from:
  http://www.goenkar.com

• 10,000 Most Commonly Misspelled Words
  Published by World Book International
  
  
• A Good Life
  By Ben Bradlee, published by Simon & Schuster (no price)
  
  
• All The Trouble In the World
  By P J O'Rourke published by The Atlantic Monthly Press ($14)
  
  
• Breaking The Glass Ceiling
  By Ann M Morrison, Randall P White, Ellen Van Velsor, and the Center for Creative Leadership, published by Addison-Wesley ($13)
  
  
• The Elements of Style
  By William Strunk Jr and E B White, published by Macmillan Publishing Company
  
  
• The Faber Book of Reportage
  Edited by John Carey, published by Faber and Faber (£9.99)
  
  
• The Literary Journalists
  Edited by Norman Sims, published by Ballantine US ($11)

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