2005-2014

Facing reduced circulation, The Times is apparently trying to create buzz by making its editorial pages more interactive and surprising. Unfortunately, editors are abandoning standards and traditions that make readers want to read its editorial pages. The paper is concocting a Frankenstein's monster of new and old media – call it blogotorial. Personality-driven writing is the province of the...

In South Korea, print newspapers used to be the "media king" that once held society together, but the rise of the Internet has undermined the role of the dailies as the major opinion leaders and is cutting into their ad revenue, industry sources say. Up until 2000, almost six in every 10 adults started the day with reading a newspaper. Politically, the major papers had earned their stars as...

Media buying houses across the country are rubbing their hands in glee. The reason: They expect ad space rate in print media to come down in the future. They will now be able to offer their clients, the advertisers, lower rates for reaching out to a larger number of people across several print media options. The new print players have already begun negotiating on reduced ad rates. Nirvik Singh...

The Editors Guild of India has in a resolution expressed deep concern at the way the basic question of woman’s honour and dignity has been affected in the Imrana case. "As a citizen of India, Imrana’s basic constitutional rights to justice and equal treatment are at stake. We have to ensure that a woman’s self respect is not sacrificed at the altar of parochial and regressive interests. We must...

Deccan Chronicle Holdings has informed the Bombay Stock Exchange that in its forthcoming board meeting on July 27, 2005, it will discuss the offer of up to 9 per cent of its share capital for raising funds through foreign currency convertible bonds (FCCBs), private placement, American depository receipts (ADRs) or global depository receipts (GRDs) subject to a 5-year conversion period. P K Iyer...

Search giant Google has teamed up with publisher Hearst Corp. and financial institution Goldman, Sachs & Co., to back a promising new means of distributing broadband Internet connections that could radically change the way people -- and even electronic devices -- send and receive data. The unusual alliance has made a nearly $100 million investment in Current Communications Group (CCG), a company...

Just about every week, the phone rings with an earnest, young journalism student at the other end asking what he or she needs to do to become a reporter. Some have already given it a great deal of thought. Most have not. For a while now, I've toyed with the notion of one day writing a book, a kind of road map for would-be reporters on some of the obstacles ahead. I'm not sure what I'd call it...

There are no bars in the 70-square-foot cell that Judith Miller, the New York Times reporter, is expected to call home for the next four months or so, as she serves her contempt-of-court sentence in the Alexandria Detention Center in Virginia. But though the jail has a reputation among lawyers and corrections officials as a relatively progressive institution, Ms. Miller indicated to her lawyers...

The world sees London's tribulation through the eyes of Adam Stacey and the words of Matina Zoulia. Their stories of the moments following the bomb blasts that struck the city during the Thursday morning rush hour captured public attention in a way that few news stories could. In other words, citizen journalism passed the breaking-news test. Try not to lose yourself in Stacey's photograph of a...

A research lab at Waterford Institute of Technology is playing a leading role in a new Third World initiative involving millions of euro in government aid and corporate donations, which seeks to leverage technology development processes to improve the lives of thousands of Indian communities. The Information Systems, Organisations and Learning Research Centre (ISOL) at the Waterford Institute of...