The transformation of journalism in India—the worlds largest democracy and one of its fa

stest growing economies—has implications for journalism around the world. With approaching 100 round-the-clock news channels—unrivalled in any other country—India boasts the worlds most linguistic diverse news【M1】______ landscape. This offers exciting opportunities, as well challenges to【M2】______ professional journalists and scholars of international journalism. The India Media Centre, the worlds first academic centre which dedicated to studying globalizing tendencies of media【M3】______ in India, is organizing the pioneering conference to address【M4】______ the implications of this major media development. This international gathering will bring together journalists and journalism scholars around the world to examine the changing face【M5】______ of journalism in India and their impact on the rest of the world.【M6】______ According to the World Association of Newspapers, the sale of newspapers in India is booming: circulation grew by 46 per cent between 2000 and 2008 and more than 99 million copies of newspapers were sold in India every day. The Times of India is【M7】______ now the worlds largest circulating, English-language "quality"【M8】______ newspaper. From FM and community radio to online media, journalists are finding new ways to communicate with a requiring【M9】______ and fragmenting audience, including a young and vocal, middle-class diaspora. International media groups—from financial, to sport journalism to entertainment news—are extending and embedding their operations into that is one of the worlds biggest【M10】______ news bazaars.

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