2005-2014

From 1939-1945 The New York Times, arguably the country's most influential paper, barely covered the extermination of millions of Jews. There was plenty of coverage of World War II, but news of the Holocaust did not get the press attention that could have steered public discourse and ultimately saved lives. Laurel Leff, author of Buried By The Times: The Holocaust and America's Most Important...

An Indian association of women journalists will work with Internews Network to offer training, roundtables and trips aimed at improving coverage of HIV and AIDS. Internews said it will collaborate for the next six months with the Indian Women’s Press Corps (IWPC) on a project to improve HIV/AIDS reporting among women journalists. The Kaiser Family Foundation’s Project for International Health...

Making a mockery of Press freedom,a police officer on Tuesday assaulted and injured ETV's Phulbani correspondent, Sadashiv Patra and also damaged his camera.The officer,who happens to be the assistant sub-inspector (ASI) of Phiringia police station,allegedly also assaulted two other persons having their meal in a dhaba. Sources said ETV correspondent had to bear the brunt of the ASI's ire when he...

The International Federation of Journalists (IFJ), the global organisation representing over 500,000 journalists worldwide, has condemned the police attack on newspaper staff in Noida, India on May Day, 1 May. "Attacks on newspaper staff peacefully demonstrating for their due rights are a grave assault on workers’ rights to organise and rights to freedom of expression," said IFJ President...

Two years after the first foreign investment in India's print media, Indian publishers are raising record sums from private equity funds and public markets to finance ambitious growth plans. Newspapers in India are suddenly outgrowing other media -- unlike slumping readership and advertising at newspapers across the U.S. and Europe -- and investors like what they see. In the last fiscal year to...

The worldwide toll of journalists and critical support staff killed covering the story is spiralling. Last year was the deadliest in at least a decade. So far this year, the International News Safety Institute has recorded 19 members of the news media killed at work in 11 countries, all but two of them murdered and no one brought to justice. In great swathes of the world, across many countries...

Navi Mumbai or New Bombay, which lies to the north east of Mumbai, will be the printing hub for new entrants Hindustan Times and DNA. The players are currently setting up printing units at Airoli (HT) and Mahape (DNA) in the region. And, if the grapevine is to be believed, then even Bennett, Coleman & Co (BCCL) is looking to set up an additional printing facility in the region, though there is no...

Nearly half of U.S. marketers plan to spend less this year on newspapers, magazines, direct mail and other traditional advertising channels, so they can spend more online, a study released Tuesday showed. The cause for the shift is the change in consumer behavior, according to Forrester Research Inc., which published the study, "U.S. Online Marketing Forecast: 2005 to 2010." An increasing number...

Iraq is the world's most dangerous country for journalists and the place where the most are kidnapped. 56 journalists and media assistants have been killed there since the fighting began on 22 March 2003 and 29 kidnapped. The Iraq conflict is the deadliest inter-state war for journalists since the one in Vietnam, when 63 were killed, but over a period of 20 years (1955-75). During the fighting in...

The new wage board for newspaper and news agency employees would be constituted as soon, Union Labour Minister K. Chandrasekhar Rao said on Sunday. To a question on the long-pending demand of the employees, he told reporters here that all the papers with regard to the matter were with him.