2005-2014

NEW DELHI, August 29: The sports sections of America’s newspapers are a passive and reactive space, one dominated by game previews and recaps with little room for enterprise reportage, a new study of the sports section fronts has found. The definition of "sports" on the section fronts of America’s newspapers is a narrow one, focused less on breaking new ground and seeking new topics than on mining...

NEW DELHI, August 29: Despite rising numbers of women in the workforce and in journalism schools, the news of the day still largely comes from a male perspective even in a country like the United States, according to a new study of press coverage in that country. A broad look across the American news media over the course of nine months revealed that men are relied on as sources in the news more...

NEW DELHI, August 29: There are different ways in that different people ask journalists to behave themselves. The last fortnight saw a surfeit of that. The first was a salvo – from Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister YS Rajasekhara Reddy. Since the recalcitrant Maoists stopped smoking the peace pipe with him, Reddy has been one beleaguered man. And having come a cropper to make the agrarian Naxalite...

The International Federation of Journalists today said that the shooting of a Reuters sound technician by United States troops in Iraq at the weekend brings to 18 the number of journalists and media staff killed by US troops since the invasion of Iraq. "The number of unexplained media killings by US military personnel is intolerable," said Aidan White, IFJ General Secretary. "Media organisations...

NEW DELHI, August 29: Most news directors are willing to share at least some of their planning and content with their partner, but they appear to be leery about sharing too much. These facts came to light through a study 'Television Newsroom Partnership Survey' conducted by researchers of the Centre for Media Design, Ball State University, United States. This was the first ever study of television...

NEW DELHI, August 29: Many television stations in the United States are relatively committed to providing air time to promote their partners’ brands and their stories, acording to a study 'Television Newsroom Partnership Survey' conducted by researchers of the Centre for Media Design, Ball State University, United States. A similar study conducted in 2004 had showed that most newspapers are not...

NEW DELHI, August 29: Almost every second television station news operations in the United States has a news partnership with a newspaper and those partnerships exist across market sizes. These facts came to light through a study 'Television Newsroom Partnership Survey' conducted by researchers of the Centre for Media Design, Ball State University, United States. This was the first ever study of...

British journalism is in decline and newspapers and journalists have only themselves to blame. For the decline – in newspaper circulations and profitability – to be arrested, journalists and the media outlets for which they write must, somehow, regain the trust of their readers. But, given what is published on a daily basis, this is going to be very difficult to achieve. These may sound like the...

The A-level results have been declared; the usual suspects have droned on about grade inflation and the end of the gold standard; places have been confirmed for those who made the grades; and the phone banks in the clearing centres have sweated with the influx of calls. Now calm is descending for a week or so, as those with places contemplate their university careers. Approaching 5,000 of these...

NEW DELHI, August 28: More than 70 per cent of consumers/visitors are unlikely to purchase from, or even return to, a website after encountering a pet peeve. And, because only 25 per cent of consumers say they will complain to the companies about their pet peeves, the use of features that annoy consumers may be having a negative impact that is difficult to trace or measure. These are some of the...