2005-2014

The editor of Eastern Eye newspaper, Amar Singh, is leaving the paper for a position at London’s Evening Standard, AIM has learnt. The recently married 26 year old gave in his notice to senior management earlier this week after returning from his honeymoon. Staff at Ethnic Media Group (EMG), which owns Eastern Eye, were told earlier today. Rumours of the move had been circulating for weeks and it...

Reporters Without Borders denounces the US Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit decision, on 28 June 2005, to uphold civil contempt of court findings against four journalists who refuse to reveal their sources for stories about former nuclear scientist Wen Ho Lee. « This is the second ruling of this kind in two days" the worldwide press freedom organization said, referring to...

MUMBAI: In less than a month, Mumbai Mirror, India's first, quality morning compact newspaper, has notched sales of over 1.5 lakh copies a day. This includes both booked subscription copies (delivered by vendors at homes), and steadily-rising newsstand sales. This makes it the No 1 compact in Mumbai (Mid-Day, a tabloid, has seen edition-sales drop to 1.24 lakh copies, from its earlier high of 1.4...

Indian politicians and software executives have accused Britain of waging a low-intensity trade war by exaggerating the threat of security breaches in the country's fast-growing call centre industry. The US$5.2 billion (S$9 billion) industry is reeling from allegations that an IT employee in Delhi sold confidential data involving 1,000 UK banking customers. The scandal, prompted by a news story in...

A little more than half the world's consumer magazines said their Web sites are profitable, up from about a quarter two years ago, according to the results of a small survey released on Tuesday by a trade group. Another 17 percent said they were losing money, down from 38 percent in 2003, the magazine publishing group International Federation of the Periodical Press reported. The study comes at a...

Reader’s Digest (RD), which has a 50-year heritage in India and is one of the best-read English magazines in the country, has strongly reconnected with its readers. The fruits of the quest, which began a few years ago, gave results when RD was recently adjudged the Best Marketer of the Year at Emvies 2005, sharing the award with Sony Entertainment Television (Indian Idol). Stating the reasons on...

The Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (TRAI) favours 100 per cent foreign ownership in satellite radio services and is against imposing any entry fee unless there is excess demand for available spectrum space. Should there be such a demand, the TRAI in its recommendations to the Government on issues relating to satellite radio services has suggested that tenders be floated as is the case with...

Mid Day, arguably, has drawn first blood in Battleground Mumbai; Bennett, Coleman & Co’s latest launch Mumbai Mirror being the first to experience how hard it is to get reader attention. But industry experts assure us that the Old Lady of Boribunder needn't lose much sleep over the impending invasion by Hindustan Times and DNA. Here's why. Old habits die hard For the 16.64 lakh (IRS 2005) readers...

NEW YORK – It's been more than 30 years since Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein broke the Watergate scandal that brought down an American president. Many media analysts say a story like Watergate, in which the two enterprising Washington Post reports relied on "Deep Throat" as an essential source, likely couldn't be broken in the same way nowadays because many news outlets have reined in the use of...

LONDON –The BBC is doubling its investment in journalism training from £5m to £10m by 2008 after a report into its editorial systems supported the Hutton Report's claim that they were defective. The Robert Neil report, chaired by former BBC director of news and current affairs Robert Neil, recommended the BBC double spend on journalism training following Lord Hutton's assertion that its editorial...