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India's old and new media are blooming

We know there is a media boom in India. But the scale of that boom is something to behold. Consider the figures revealed by Priyaranjan Das Munshi, India's information and broadcasting minister. He told a conference in New Delhi of an electronic media revolution with 300 TV channels. Yet, amazingly, that number is expected to increase to 400 by next year. Newsprint is doing well too: the minister said there are now about 62,000 newspaper titles in the country. (Via Gulf Daily News)

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