2005-2014

Veteran British broadcaster Sir David Frost is to join Arabic-language TV station Aljazeera, the network has confirmed. Sir David is to appear on Aljazeera International, the pan-Arab news network's new English-language channel, due to be launched next spring. The Qatar-based channel said Sir David, who broadcast his final Breakfast with Frost programme for the BBC in May, would be among the "key...

The Times of India, by any means, is not the largest circulated daily in the country. Yet, if one sifts through all media criticism in various media, one would see that most of it is de facto criticism of this newspaper alone. Not without reason, though. And we will go into these reasons in good time. It was not surprising that the newspaper’s brazen declaration that it would be hawking its

AS BLOGS become big business, Internet giants have begun trying to profit from new forms of journalism, including war coverage. The results are not encouraging. Yahoo's latest experiment reveals that it considers war news just another form of entertainment. This from an online giant that has already shown it is cavalier about press freedom and a friend of oppression. Look back to 2004, when...

PHOENIX--It could take 300 years to index all the world's information and make it searchable, Google Chief Executive Eric Schmidt predicted on Saturday at the Association of National Advertisers annual conference here. "We did a math exercise and the answer was 300 years," Schmidt said in response to an audience question asking for a projection of how long the company's mission will take. "The...

Google launched a test version of a new service on Friday that gathers reports from syndicated news sites and blogs across the Web. The program, called Google Reader, aggregates news and updates from selected sites. It lets users subscribe to material from the sites and create a reading list that they can sort and organize. Users can post news items to their blogs or send them to friends via e...

TOKYO, Oct. 7 (UPI) -- Using newspaper articles on the Internet without permission is against the law, or so a Japanese court officially ruled Thursday. That finding may well have long-term consequences on how the news is distributed on the World Wide Web. The case against Digital Alliance, a small Web provider, was brought forward by the Yomiuri Shimbun, Japan's most widely-read newspaper, which...

Urban Indian net users are increasingly using digital means of entertainment and aspiring to upgrade to a lifestyle that is digitally driven. Not without reason, for consumers now do not buy products or brands � they buy lifestyles, asserts a report of Internet users in the country's urban areas. The digital way of life is increasingly dominating Net users’ choice of spending time at home. Net...

The International Federation of Journalists (IFJ), the global organisation representing more than 500,000 journalists in over 110 countries, has condemned the intentional neglect and mistreatment of an imprisoned Nepali journalist that lead to the journalist's death. On October 4, Nepali journalist Maheshwor Pahari, died from tuberculosis after authorities repeatedly refused Pahari’s pleas for...

Most executives in the beleagured newspaper industry tend to believe they have a product problem and not an image problem, and attempt to address it accordingly. Newspapers are pouring billions of dollars, euros, and yen into addressing the tangible with little to no results to show for it, according to a new report titled "Newspaper Outlook 2006: Managing Perceptions." What newspapers are not...

Terry Semel, Yahoo Inc.'s chief executive, fired a few salvos at high-flying Google Inc. Thursday, saying the rival Internet company has a scattered strategy and an array of products whose popularity lags behind those of his own Web portal. "So far, they don't seem to have a plan, but maybe they do," Semel said of Google at the Web 2.0 Internet conference in San Francisco. "Maybe magic will happen...