2005-2014

CHICAGO (AP) – A federal appeals court dismissed a lawsuit filed by former collegiate journalists who said their First Amendment rights were violated when the dean of student affairs insisted on reviewing the paper before publication. In a 7-4 decision June 20, the 7th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals said Patricia Carter, Governors State University's dean of student affairs, should not be liable for...

SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) – A newspaper investigation of a former columnist for The Sacramento Bee could not verify 43 sources she used in a sampling of 12 years of her work. Diana Griego Erwin resigned May 11 as she came under scrutiny about the existence of people she quoted. She has denied making up information, but Executive Editor Rick Rodriguez said the Bee should have been able to locate the...

The US government wants to keep ICANN on a tight leash. After all, it paid for a lot of the research and development of the Internet. It undoubtedly feels generous in creating ICANN in the place, rather than just letting the Departments of Defense or Commerce run the Internet. ICANN will never please all of the people all of the time. Quite the opposite. It would displease all of the people, if it...

The Appan Menon Memorial Trust is inviting applications. The Trust proposes to award a grant of Rs 1 lakh every year to professional journalists working in the area of World Affairs or Development news with an Indian perspective. Journalists from any media with 3-5 years experience can apply by submitting the following. A brief proposal (1000 words) stating in brief the area, issues and your...

An economist and a newspaper editor are among those to have been chosen by different political groupings in West Bengal as candidates for the Rajya Sabha elections for which are to be held on July 14. Also in the field are three Polit Bureau members of the Communist Party of India (Marxist), Sitaram Yechury, Brinda Karat and Chittabrata Majumdar. The ruling Left Front has decided to support...

Ketan N. Gandhi has been named president and publisher of the Home News Tribune. Gandhi, 42, had been vice president of finance for the Asbury Park Press and the Home News Tribune since 1997, when Gannett acquired the two newspapers. He simultaneously served as controller of Gannett's Atlantic Coast Newspaper Group. Previously, Gandhi had worked as an accounting manager at the Valley News Dispatch...

The International Federation of Journalists today accused Time-Warner, one of the world’s largest media corporations of a "profound betrayal" of principle over its decision to publicly defy its reporter’s wishes and hand over his notebook to avoid heavy fines in a court action over protection of sources. Matthew Cooper, a reporter for Time magazine was ready to go to jail for refusing to name a...

Regulatory fee outflow to decline 50%. In a decision that comes as sweet music to private FM radio companies, the government today allowed 20 per cent foreign direct investment in the sector and ushered in a revenue share regime of 4 per cent a year to replace licence fees. However, the Cabinet, which met in New Delhi to thrash out the policy for the second phase of FM radio licensing, decided to...

PK Iyer, executive director, Deccan Chronicle Holdings claims that Deccan Chronicle has reached the circulation figure of 2 lakhs. "We have raised our print run to 2-lakh since yesterday. With this, we have almost achieved a 50 per cent market share in Chennai," he declares. The Hindu, the number one English daily of this region has a circulation of 2,67,000 in Chennai (as per ABC, July to...

Lintas India Group director Lynn De Souza kicked it off. In a recent magazine article, she said that TAM Media Research data represent just 38 per cent of India's television viewing homes. De Souza later reiterated her point to Business Standard: "The sample is too small as 5,000 Peoplemeters is too little to extrapolate to 83 million TV homes." That statement turned the arc lights on the validity...