2005-2014

MUMBAI: The print and the broadcast sector - A reality check was what The Hindu editor-in-chief N Ram and Star India CEO Peter Mukerjea voiced at session four of the 'Diamond Jubilee seminar' on the media and entertainment sector. "The world's best newspaper Financial Times is losing circulation & is trying to make up its losses through its internet edition," were the strong words stated by Ram...

Mumbai: The print media is in a growth phase in India and other Asian countries while it is declining in some of the developed countries, N. Ram, Editor in Chief, The Hindu group of publications, said. Apart from improved purchasing power with people and aggressive entrepreneurship, the excitement caused by political developments has also helped to bring in more readers, Ram told delegates to the...

GOOGLE HAS JUST UPDATED THEIR toolbar page rank. And, it appears the way they calculate backlinks has changed also. These updates typically get SEO professionals scrambling. The engines are continually changing their algorithms. Although, there is a constant in midst of change: It's the emphasis on relevant content. Content still is king. So, what determines the importance of content? Many things...

ONLINE REVENUE GROWTH TROUNCED PRINT in the second quarter of this year for both The New York Times Company and the Dow Jones Company, their earnings reports revealed Thursday. For the Times Company, online ad revenues were up 27 percent, while its new property About.com is estimated to have increased ad revenue by 39 percent. About showed an operating profit of $2.5 million on total second...

NEW YORK The board of directors of The Associated Press approved a new licensing policy Thursday governing online use of AP content by its member news organizations, but will not charge a separate fee for such use. The board of the news cooperative chose to roll fees for online usage into a 2.2 percent annual increase in the overall fees it will charge its members in 2006. As part of the new...

The high court in the India's southern city of Madras has dropped terrorism charges against a high-profile regional journalist, RR Gopal. Mr Gopal, editor of the weekly Nakeeran magazine, was charged in 2003 with illegally possessing a weapon. He spent eight months and prison but was later released on bail. He was the first journalist in India to be charged under the controversial Prevention of...

Ho-hum earnings for the second quarter prompted Wall Street to whack 11.5 percent off Yahoo's stock price yesterday. But the question investors should be asking is when and how much the payoff will be for all the new stuff in Yahoo's pipeline. Yahoo has spit out a bevy of innovations over the past year and has more rumbling around in its oversized belly, including a major push into Hollywood-style...

Judith Miller, the New York Times, and some members of Congress picked a bad time to make a stand for journalistic integrity. Miller, a Times reporter, is in jail for not revealing the identity of a White House source in an article (never published) about CIA operative Valerie Plame, whose husband is a vocal critic of the Iraq War. The Times has stood behind Miller, declaring that the relationship...

MUMBAI: Channel 7, promoted by media group Jagran Prakashan, has roped in Shantanu Guha Ray from ESPN India to head its business and sports desk. He is joining Channel 7 next month as deputy editor. A print medium journalist-turned-TV man, Ray has already put in his papers at ESPN India where he was heading the special projects division. Ray joined as head of India news for ESPN Star Sports three...

Toss those stereotypes out the window! Jeff Mignon at Media Cafe clarifies the prejudice of weathered newspaper men and women by outlining what young readers really want: Contrary to popular belief, young readers, from primary school to their mid-30's are interested in news. They're simply reading different publications such as the freebie Metro, YahooNews and for children and adolescents, French...