2005-2014

At a time when mobile and wireless platforms are attracting advertisers, it’s the traditional print media that is holding its own. Thanks to extraordinary growth in certain categories. Consider this. Display retail shops, which were ranked as the 115th category in 2003 vis-a-vis ad spend in newspapers and magazines, jumped to 11th position in 2004. Vocational training institutes, which were 102nd...

The Hindu in a new look hit the stands on Thursday. Design guru Dr. Mario Garcia has redesigned the daily. According to him it was a huge challenge because of The Hindu's history of 126 years. The process of re-designing was set in motion as early as 1994, and the current re-designing activity was started off eight months ago, N Murali, Joint Managing Director, The Hindu, told exchange4media. He...

A fresh round of channel wars is in the air. While the Bennett, Coleman & Co-owned Times Television is gearing up to launch a business channel, Television Eighteen India Limited (TV 18) is getting ready to start a general news channel. Bennett is believed to be close to signing a deal with Reuters India Pvt Ltd, which will pick up a 26 per cent stake in Times TV. One media industry source...

"Is Yahoo! a threat to the business model of traditional news organizations? Yeah!" Quoted on the Wall Street Journal, Paul Grabowicz, director of the New Media program at the University of California, Berkeley Graduate School of Journalism may not be exaggerating. Over the past six months, Yahoo! News has topped every online news site in unique visitor traffic. Agreements with approximately 100...

Tehelka, the weekly English newspaper well-known for its hard investigative stories, now has a print-run of one lakh copies. The newspaper, which was launched on January 31, 2004, has a current circulation of 95,000. Total circulation is expected to touch 1.5 lakhs by September 2005. According to a Tehelka release, out of the print-run of one lakh copies, around 17,000 are advance paid subscribers...

The Kashmir Times Delhi Bureau Chief Iftikhar Gilani's recently released book 'My Days in Prison' (Penguin, Rs 195) reveals a shocking story of trial, temerity and triumph and exposes fancies of bureaucracy, politicians, police and intelligence agencies bent to make democracy and liberty hostage to their whims. With abundant pathos and black humour, Gilani has used his skills as a journalist to...

Today sees the next stage in the evolution of The Independent, Britain's original quality compact newspaper. Readers will notice a number of changes to this morning's paper, not the least of which is its design, which has been given a fresh, modern look. Today sees the next stage in the evolution of The Independent, Britain's original quality compact newspaper. Readers will notice a number of...

Most Americans believe bloggers should not be allowed to publish sensitive personal information about individuals, according to a new survey. Web hosting company Hostway this week released the results of its poll of 2,500 Americans on blogging. Eighty percent of respondents did not believe that bloggers should be allowed to publish home addresses and other personal information about private...

Millions of hours of radio, TV and film records will be available online for free download after the BBC announced the launch of its Creative Archive License scheme. "The Creative Archive License provides a unique solution to one of the key challenges of rights in the digital age, allowing us to increase the public value of our archives by giving people the chance to use video and audio material...

Media mogul Rupert Murdoch urged newspaper editors to grab on to the digital revolution, stop fearing or ignoring the power of the Web, and do more to serve the young news consumers -- or "digital natives," as he called them -- who are more and more going to the Internet for information. "We need to realize that the next generation of people have a different set of expectations of the kind of news...