2005-2014

New York, May 23, 2005–The former presenter for a popular MTV-style music video program was shot and killed in her home in Kabul last week. Shaima Rezayee, 24, hosted the daily music program "Hop" on the private television channel Tolo TV until March. Police told The Associated Press that Rezayee was killed May 18 by a single bullet wound to the head and that members of her family may have been...

According to humorist George Mikes (pronounced Me-kaish) everyone is really Hungarian. I don't know about Hungarians, but everyone of my acquaintance – at least of my acquaintance in the media – is a Calcuttan, i.e. anyone born or brought up in, or with some connection to the city now referred to as Kolkata. This was brought home to me, literally, during my visit there last week. I met my fellow...

In a major foreign direct investment proposal pertaining to the print media, the Centre on Friday permitted the Dublin-based Independent Printing Company Ltd. to join hands with the Kanpur-based Jagran Prakashan Pvt. Ltd. for printing and publishing newspapers and magazines. The proposal entails the induction of 26 per cent foreign equity in Jagran Prakashan resulting in an inflow of Rs. 150 crore...

Even as media mogul Rupert Murdoch recently sounded a warning to newspaper houses that digital is the future, print media in India is likely to put up a strong show in the coming years. "The relative share of each of the segments of the advertisement pie is not expected to change very materially in the next couple of years," contends executive director and leader (entertainment & media practice)...

Newspapers go on marketing overdrive to lure readers. Newspaper readers in Mumbai are being pampered like never before. With three major newspapers set for launch in the next few months, the marketing war has reached a feverish pitch. Consider Hindustan Times, which is planning a Mumbai edition shortly. Nearly 50,000 Airtel subscribers in Mumbai will receive a copy of the newspaper free. Sources...

The timing could not have been better, what with Mumbai turning into a media battleground with the impending entry of DNA and Hindustan Times. AdEx India, a division of TAM Media Research, has just come out with the first ever Newspaper Revenue Track (NRT), based on a comprehensive study of the various revenue models of newspapers. NRT-1 is the first of the quarterly study for the period July...

[Over the past month, Crikey has published a steady stream of information from readers and industry insiders about how newspapers and magazines artificially inflate their audited "paid" circulation figures to deceive advertisers who pay for their ads based on the official circulation figures. Today, we explain how they do it.] The stories about circulation rorts began when an anonymous Crikey...

Jammu and Kashmir Chief Minister Mufti Mohammad Sayeed on Tuesday ordered a probe into the incident of assault on photojournalists by the police while the former were covering a protest rally in Srinagar last week. Deputy Director General of Police Kuldeep Khuda has been appointed as the inquiry officer. The probe was ordered after the photojournalists held a protest march here from the Press...

As he treks around Pennsylvania this summer exploring the state's storied past, history buff Robert McCreary is keeping a blog -- an online journal that anyone with access to the Internet can see. The Chalfant resident isn't doing this just for fun. He's being paid $3,000 plus expenses by the Pennsylvania Tourism Office. By offering a glimpse at the online diaries of McCreary and six others as...

After witnessing the popularity of blogging after the Dec. 26 Southeast Asian tsunami -- for both reporting and relief efforts -- and seeing how blogging impacted U.S. and British elections, Indian officials are beginning the process of granting accreditation to bloggers and other online journalists, according to The Times of India. For several years, online journos have had a "tough battle with...