2005-2014

Dinamalar, the second largest circulated Tamil daily, now wakes up its readers with two ‘papers’ for the price of one on Sundays. Two main sheets (with a masthead each) formatted in similar fashion and complementing each other, accompany the regular Sunday supplements. The soft launch happened over 10 weeks ago, and the publication made noise through a teaser campaign. The identity of the...

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As advertisers increasingly explore ways to seamlessly blend their products with editorial content, some are coming dangerously close to breaching the time-honored separation between Church and State. Consider Toyota’s Lexus brand, which currently is trying to convince publishers to buy into new approaches in the product-integration arena that blur the line between editorial and advertising...

AS WITH SEVERAL OTHER MAJOR publishers, online revenue at The Washington Post Company outperformed print in the second quarter of this year, according to its earnings report released Friday. Last month, both The New York Times Company and the Dow Jones Company reported a disproportionately strong quarter for online revenue. Overall, net income at The Washington Post Company declined 7 percent over...

NEW DELHI, August 8: It is an interchange of readership fortunes at the top level. Dainik Jagran and Dainik Bhaskar have swapped positions as dailies with the highest readership. Dainik Jagran registered an impressive 42 per cent growth — from 1,49,82,000 to 2,12,44,000 — over the figures for NRS 2003 to emerge as the most read daily in the country (taking into account both urban and rural markets...

There being precious little enlightenment on the subject in Marxist literature, it is instructive to look to Westminster for guidance on parliamentary practice. More so, at a time the Lok Sabha Speaker says it is "grossly defamatory" to suggest his decisions are politically-influenced and CPI(M) MPs move privilege motions against those who dare argue otherwise. In October 2001, the British...

Earlier this week, Technorati, a Web site that indexes blogs, released its semiannual "State of the Blogosphere" report. It records a steady, and astonishing, growth. Nearly 80,000 new blogs are created every day, and there are some 14.2 million in existence already, 55 percent of which remain active. Some 900,000 new blog postings are added every day - a steady increase marked by extraordinary...