Merinews: Glimpses 2006

New Delhi, February 7: In 2006, merinews was just an idea. Incubated and implemented through the year, this nascent citizen journalism idea has been turned into a force by the citizens, who took up their pens, and later on their cameras, to put forth their views — more appropriately their voices — on matters of significance that touched and affected their lives. When you look back in 2006, you find how big this idea has grown; proving the relevance and need of this idea is at this point of technological and human evolution.

Merinews is a ever-growing compendium of citizens’ voices, which together represent the streams of thoughts flowing through the citizenry, cutting across regions and boundaries. Having become a corpus of its own kind, it has now become necessary to revisit and categorize the various shades of opinion that have come from all quarters and got embodied in merinews. Glimpses 2006, a single-page indexer, attempts to bring to the fore the diverse flavors that citizen journalists of merinews have created remarkably —driven solely by their concern to share their thoughts, views and passion with others.

Merinews plunks for a balanced approach in advocacy, apart from unbiased coverage and non-partisan approach. As the medium of the people, by the people and for the people, it further refurbishes the ideals of a democratic welfare society. Merinews encourages active participation and interaction initiatives, which tend to highlight some of the pressing issues that we face today. As a social institution, the role and responsibility is devotedly pursued. As evidence merinews has surfeit texts on the most demanding issues, which covers a much wider base of humanities.

“How merinews is changing the journalistic communications paradigm is clearly evident through selective page browsing that Glimpses 2006 affords,” says Vipul Kant Upadhayay, Founder & Editor-in-Chief of merinews.