2005-2014

In an attempt to entice more children to get into the habit of reading newspapers, leading Hindi daily Dainik Jagran will roll out the Junior Jagran, a weekly supplement, from 20 additional cities. Junior Jagran will be available in these cities along with the main edition starting today. The newspaper is targeting school students to report for the supplement along with the Jagran editorial team...

The Union Cabinet on Thursday decided to facilitate greater foreign presence in the print media. This will be done by allowing printing of facsimile editions of foreign newspapers and periodicals and increasing the syndication limits in Indian newspapers. Also, greater flexibility has been allowed for foreign investment in the print media within the existing 26 per cent ceiling. This is expected...

The Union Cabinet on Thursday opted against allowing the publication of Indian editions of foreign newspapers while clearing a proposal to permit the printing of facsimile editions of foreign newspapers and periodicals. The question of whether Indian editions of foreign newspapers should be allowed came up for discussion as part of the package of print media policy changes presented to the Cabinet...

A survey of global reading habits has come up with an amazing result – India has come out on top. Researchers from the National Opinion Poll contacted 30,000 people in 30 countries and compared how much time they spent watching television as against reading. The West is starting to realise that India has become an intellectual powerhouse churning out hundreds of thousands of graduates, especially...

The 100-odd last-minute amendments that were made to the Right to Information Bill have landed the Centre and states in a fix. Once the Bill that was passed last month receives the President’s assent, the Centre and states will have to create within three months about 40 posts of the level of Supreme Court judges and 300 posts of the level of chief secretaries. This is because the Bill requires...

Going by the latest NRS and IRS figures, Hindi dailies command a much higher position in terms of readership compared to English. So, why are ad revenues skewed in favour of English publications? While TAM data show that the gap is reducing, media planners attribute the gap to the target market, propensity to spend and brand requirement. The latest TAM data indicate that the gap between ad spends...

"Citizen journalism." It's one of the hottest buzzwords in the news business these days. Many news executives are probably thinking about implementing some sort of citizen-journalism initiative; a small but growing number have already done so. But there's plenty of confusion about citizen journalism. What exactly is it? Is this something that's going to be essential to the future prosperity of...

After authoring books and directing films, management guru Arindam Chaudhari is all set to launch a magazine, Business & Economy (B&E). According to him, it will be positioned as the most influential business and economy magazine. The magazine will be launched in Delhi and Mumbai on June 16 and 17 respectively. It will be a fortnightly, and priced Rs 10. The magazine will be available on...

In the next few months, readers in Mumbai will be bombarded with a deluge of pages from new entrants – Hindustan Times and DNA. Both the papers promise to be thick issues with something for everybody. HT, according to market sources, will be a 40 page-issue with additional supplements on six days, while Sundays will see a 14-page magazine called HT Brunch. DNA intends going a step further with an...

In the first week of its launch, STAR Ananda, the 24 hours Bengali news channel from the STAR and the Ananda Bazar Patrika group, has garnered the maximum share in the Kolkata market. As per TAM Media Research in the first four days of its launch (between June 1- June 4), the channel has gained a market share of 38 per cent, leaving behind NDTV India and Tara Newz with a share of 10 per cent each...