2005-2014

The government on Tuesday moved the much-awaited Right to Information Bill with comprehensive amendments that is aimed at empowering the citizens to get any information from the departments, agencies and bodies of the Central, state and local bodies, besides government-aided institutions. However, the Bill has left several loopholes which could be exploited by government officials to suppress...

BURLINGTON, Mass., May 10 /PRNewswire/ -- Confirming a previous established trend, BURST! Media says that Internet use continues grow at the expense of other "traditional" media such as TV, radio, magazines and newspapers. According to a recent BURST! survey of more than 2,600 web users about changes in their media consumption in the past year, 60.9% respondents said they spend more time on the...

KABUL, AFGHANISTAN – A bearded man from the bazaar is whisked into a barber shop, where he's given a shave and a slick haircut. After a facial, he visits fashion boutiques. In a few tightly edited minutes of television, the humble bricklayer is transformed into an Afghan metrosexual, complete with jeans, sweater, suede jacket, and sunglasses. It may sound like standard reality TV fare in the West...

Publications company Cyber Media (India) Ltd (CML) has mortgaged the brand name of the yet-to-be-launched magazine -- Business Week India -- with public sector State Bank of Mysore (SBM). The company has procured a long-term loan and working capital facility by mortgaging the brand name. It has also mortgaged the brand name of its flagship magazine DataQuest with a negative lien on all other...

Nearly 150 local TV stations launched on Monday a network of websites that will compete for national advertisers with the news sections of the Internet portal giants. The aggregated online advertising network, called the Local Media Network, includes major market stations WABC in New York, KABC in Los Angeles and WLS in Chicago, all owned by the ABC network, as well as websites from other...

Rivals may be closing in on her, but the grand Old Lady of Boribunder is in no mood to let any claimant having a go at her throne. In the face of impending competition from adversaries looking to launch English newspapers in Mumbai, Bennett, Coleman & Co (BCCL), publishers of The Times of India, is busy strengthening the content of its best-selling product. The beefing up, in fact, is starting...

Jagran TV Private Limited, the company that runs the news channel called Channel 7, will offload 25.7 per cent stake in it to the Mauritius-based investor New Vernon Bharat Ltd. The news broadcaster, which is the broadcasting arm of the Kanpur-based Jagran Prakashan, is expected to raise Rs 30 crore from the deal. This puts the total valuation of Jagran TV, which started its operations only about...

A lady reporter and a cameraperson of NDTV were on Thursday assaulted allegedly by some police personnel in Noida, on the outskirts of Delhi while they were pursuing a story relating to CBI case against new state Chief Secretary Neera Yadav. The police personnel even confiscated their tripod and headphone and nearly seized their camera before the team comprising reporter Sunetra Chaudhary and...

Lok Sabha Speaker Somnath Chatterjee said on Thursday that Parliament could not dictate terms to media. "It is entirely for the media to decide which news it will publish or broadcast. They are as much a relevant part of the democratic system and we cannot dictate them," the Speaker observed, when some members drew his attention to "inadequate coverage" of parliamentary proceedings. Somnath said...

Amid the din around the impending launch of three English dailies in Mumbai, the city’s second-most read general interest newspaper Mid Day is quietly gearing up for battle royale. Mid Day, in recent times, has seen an increase of about 22 per cent in circulation, primarily on the back of entertainment, city-centric, some amount of national/international, and sports news. The mix is doing so well...