2005-2014

SAN JOSE, Calif. (AP): Deteriorating security in Iraq has made it much more difficult to provide the news coverage Americans need to understand the war and reconstruction efforts, several journalists said Friday. As the military death toll rises, the media also is under pressure from critics in the United States to cover the "good news" of the U.S.-led reconstruction efforts, the journalists noted...

NEW YORK: Goldman Sachs issued a chilling note today on trends in the newspaper industry raising severe doubts about near-term ad and revenue growth. It said revenue performance for 2005 will be at its worst level since at least 2001-2002. "As investors think about the prospects for the newspaper sector (and the ad-based media sector broadly) in 2006," the note began, "we offer the following...

Turner International and Global Broadcast News (GBN), a TV18 group company, have announced a partnership to launch a cobranded, 24-hour, English-language general news channel in India. Rajdeep Sardesai will be the editor-in-chief of the channel. The co-branded service, CNN-IBN, will build upon the foundation of TV18's newsgathering experience and infrastructure in India, bolstered by CNN's...

NEW YORK -(Dow Jones)- Internet search engines are riding a monster wave of online-advertising dollars. But last week it became clear one company - Google Inc. (GOOG) - is catching it more expertly than others. Blockbuster third-quarter financial results from Google showed the search leader is growing much faster than its top rivals Yahoo Inc. (YHOO). Google's revenue rose 96% to $1.6 billion...

You've been hearing the same type of news, quarter after quarter. Internet advertising is growing -- and the companies who are at the forefront of the advertising market are getting richer. While that's important for the Web companies that are raking in the dough, it's just as important for businesses that want to use the Internet to advertise their products and services. Companies spent $5.8...

THE chief of one of the world's biggest advertising groups has that leading media companies such as News Corp are on the verge of panic amid seismic shifts brought on by the internet. WPP chief executive Martin Sorrell singled out the recent internet acquisition spree by Rupert Murdoch's media conglomerate as one sign that media groups are scrambling to catch up, saying News Corp, publisher of...

All is woe and darkness in the house of media. If you were measuring journalists' public standing on a scale of 1 to 10, 10 being the best, right now we're in less-than-zero territory, thanks to The New York Times and its dodgy handling of the Plame spy case. A few days ago, as the entire politico-media establishment was on 24-hour indictment watch, The New York Sun reported that widespread...

The dangerous march toward monolithic media has now threatened the irreverent and vibrant alternative press. The latest assault on the independent press is the creation of a mega-chain of weeklies that stretch from Florida to Seattle. The merger of Phoenix-based New Times Media and New York-based Village Voice Media, which owns the Seattle Weekly, is bad for democracy. The merger places 17...

How bad is the New Times alt-weekly chain’s takeover of Village Voice Media for the Voice-owned L.A. Weekly? Pretty bad. New Times founder and executive editor Michael Lacey, never famous for his tact, has long had the habit of dismissing competitors in the Birkenstock-wearing world of alt-weeklies as "raggedy-ass" publications filled with "espresso-crazed lefties," and he expands his empire with...

Here in media world, we're all quite cross at The New York Times and its former star reporter, Judith Miller. She is widely believed to have sought her martyrdom as a career move. And then she gave up after a mere couple of months in jail. What a wuss! And the Times: this great institution let a mere reporter lead it around by its nose, with predictable results. What a superwuss! But this latest...