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Print Media Industry Losses During Lockdown

Print Media After the lockdown ends the growth trajectory for media will lie not in old style news paper but digital news. Then came Corona and the lockdown and suddenly things did not look bright anymore, either for English or Hindi. In Metro towns, two months of lockdown saw dealership and home deliveries trickling almost stop for both English and Hindi, capped things were by the public about newspaper spreading the virus. In non - Metro towns in Hindi belt, language paper have continued to be delivered but lack of advertising, they are thinner inform. these are stories of drastic cut back in number and downsizing the teams.  INS has formally requested the government from critical relief measures: two years tax holiday for print, removal of import duty on  news print and extending all relief being granted to other industries. Things are so bad that a recent dispatch to the government from the Indian Newspaper Society (INS). A body representing some 800 publishers,...