2005-2014

The Indian market is "the new theater of strategic investment," the chief executive of Independent News & Media, Tony O'Reilly, declared last month after the Indian government had approved his bid to buy a stake in one of the nation's leading newspaper groups. His company, the owner of the British newspapers The Independent and Independent on Sunday and of The Belfast Telegraph, paid $34 million...

Ten minutes before the hour at the CNBC newsroom in Delhi, and the presenters are preparing themselves to go live. News readers with glossy, blow-dried hair trip across the marble floors in kitten heels; executives wearing expensive jeans pace the office, shouting instructions to rows of minions sitting on lurid purple chairs, silently monitoring developments on their screens. Away from the action...

Indian journalists will have the chance to talk with Sreenath Sreenivasan, a dean and professor at Columbia University’s prestigious Graduate School of Journalism, on June 29. The Chennai Press Club is hosting the 4 p.m. discussion, organized by the Prime Point Foundation. The session is open to journalists, students, faculty, or anyone else interested in journalism and communication. Sreenivasan...

Marathi daily Loksatta has decided its time it made some noise in the market to attract reader attention. The paper has initiated a marketing campaign around its initiative ‘Scratch to Win’ and Loksatta officials say that in the process it has increased circulation by 60,000 copies in less than a month. Capitalising on the period, the paper has also started another supplement, ‘Viva’ targeted at...

The Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (Trai), today gave the green signal for 100 per cent foreign ownership in satellite radio services with no entry and licence fee for the time being. In the recommendations, Trai said that it would desirable to provide a licensing framework now itself so that there is no uncertainty in the future. The regulatory body also recommended that there shouldn't be...

THE promulgation of Emergency and Press Censorship on June 26, 1975 constituted the darkest chapter in press history in free India. The period had its immediate and long term repercussions for the press. The moot question today is how far have the lessons been learnt by succeeding governments and the press? In fact, in the past decade, dark shades of press censorship were indeed hovering over the...

NEW DELHI: With more than 2.4 million copies sold every day, The Times of India has been certified by the Audit Bureau of Circulations as having become the world's largest selling English broadsheet newspaper – ahead of giants like USA Today and Wall Street Journal, Times London and The Guardian. How did TOI manage this feat? Traditionally, India has led world rankings for things we would rather...

LAHORE, June 24 : All Pakistan Newspaper Society (APNS) and Indian Newspaper Society (INS) may soon work out details to import newsprint and other materials used in production of newspapers from Western countries. Talking to reporters at a lunch that the Jang Group of Newspapers hosted for a visiting Indian delegation, INS president and Zee News chief executive officer Pardeep Guha said: "The...

The Information and Broadcasting Ministry has decided to grant foreign news channels a licence for Rs 1 lakh a year, freeing them up from having to seek permission to uplink for specific events. Prasar Bharati’s interests are also being protected for the corporation will get terrestrial rights for important sports events whether or not it has bid for them. The Government will continue to determine...

While giving his consent to the landmark Right to Information Act on Monday evening, President A P J Abdul Kalam has reminded Prime Minister Manmohan Singh of maintaining the sanctity of communication between the Head of State and the Head of Government. A consistently vocal advocate of openness and transparency in governance, Kalam has put in writing to Singh that communication between the...