2005-2014

The Associated Press is planting the seeds of its own demise. AP's most recent act of self-destruction was its April 18 announcement that it would start charging newspaper and broadcast clients an additional fee for using AP content on their web sites. This move -- sprung on its clients just as they are recognizing the urgent need to reinvent themselves in multi-media, web-driven modes -- ignores...

HT Media value may spurt to Rs 1,462 cr. HT Media Ltd has filed a draft red herring prospectus with the Securities and Exchange Board of India (Sebi) for a 100 per cent book-built public issue of 46,40,000 equity shares (fresh issue) of Rs 10 each by HT Media Ltd and an offer for sale of 23,55,000 equity shares of Rs 10 each from HPC (Mauritius) Ltd. The offer will also have a greenshoe option of...

Working at a major metropolitan newspaper these days can feel a bit like working for the East German Politburo, circa 1988. It's a good gig with great benefits, and people seek you out at cocktail parties, but you have this sense that your days are numbered. Newspapers, you may have read, though most likely not in a newspaper, are on the way out. In this Age of the Internet, we print journalists...

Everything makes a comeback. There is an eternal renaissance of essential things. In journalism, design, literature and art. Things tend to simplify themselves. As life in the big cities turns more chaotic, technology becomes more accessible with wireless, fast communication available to larger masses of the population. For the printed media, this translates into smaller formats, more reader...

Reuters has bought a stake in an English-language news channel being set up by the Times of India. The news service has bought 26% of the Times of India Global Broadcasting Company, a division of the Indian newspaper group that publishes the world's biggest daily broadsheet in circulation terms, with a readership of some 7.4 million. The English-language channel will go live this year, serving...

Losing ad revenue? Where are your advertisers going? More advertisers signing up? Why are they coming to you? Here's a brief view of current trends in advertising, trends which quite possibly will become permanent characteristics of the market. Large papers losing/local papers gaining: "It's not just that untargeted advertising looks old-fashioned. It's that there are increasingly viable, more...

You don't exactly fancy yourself to be the citizen journalist type. But there you were on Academy Awards night, out near the red carpet with your digital video camera in hand right as one of the celebs lost it and started beating up an unruly fan. Somehow, this scene was out of sight from the pros and you got the shot, crystal clear and brimming with epithets not suitable for prime time. So now...

The Federal Bureau of Investigation has released 20 pages of files on President George W. Bush to an activist blogger who sought the president’s records under a Freedom of Information Act request last summer, RAW STORY has learned. The release, which comprises two threats made against the President in 2001 and 2003, is scant. It includes letters from the U.S. Secret Service to the FBI forensic...

The Supreme Court has warned the media against reporting unwarranted criticism of the judges and the judiciary. It said that freedom enjoyed by the media was no licence to indulge in sensationalism and a mechanism should be devised to check the criticism from crossing the limits. A Bench, comprising Justice Y.K. Sabharwal and Justice Tarun Chatterjee, pointed out that "wild allegation that...

Will the last American newspaper lose its last reader before the middle of the century? Journalism professor Philip Meyer thinks it's possible. After all, the percentage of adults who report reading daily newspapers has fallen from 81 percent in 1964 to just 52 percent in 2004. If the trend continues, there won't be any readers left within a few decades, says Mr. Meyer, an author and former...