2005-2014

Olivier Fleurot, CEO of the Financial Times Group which has a stake in Business Standard said that FT would operate in the English Business Reporting space responding to queries about opportunities of growth in Indian Vernacular media. Fleurot was on his first visit to India after FT’s investment in Business Standard and was at an industry gathering hosted by CII. Fleurot also launched a FT...

Ananda Vikatan has emerged as the largest-selling Tamil weekly. The average circulation of the weekly now stands at 4,30,534 copies for the period July-December 2004, according to the Audit Bureau of Circulation. This represents a 22 per cent growth over the previous half-year period. Founded and nurtured by the legendary S.S. Vasan, Ananda Vikatan displaces Kumudam as the largest-selling Tamil...

Its Bollywood sting may have grabbed all the headlines but it’s India TV’s purported sneak shots of three former MPs and a sitting Member that has prompted the government to serve a show-cause notice on the channel. The notice, served two days ago, seeks an explanation from the channel for airing the programme Bhaiya Bhole, which was found to be offensive and obscene, said officials of the...

Ten years ago, at the first ?New News? seminar held at the Poynter Institute, a group of digital pioneers brainstormed what would be new about online news. They listed what it was that newspapers were not providing that the new digital news space would enable and how the new medium might change news reporting and writing. Many of the predictions were based on the idea of the ?limitless newshole...

A Division Bench of the Kerala High Court has decided not to initiate contempt of court proceedings against V.R. Krishna Iyer and V. Balakrishna Eradi, both former Supreme Court Judges, N. Ram, Editor-in-Chief, The Hindu; Kuldip Nayyar, eminent journalist, K. Gopalakrishnan, Editor, Mathrubhoomi; and other respondents for issuing a statement on the incident in which Mr. Gopalakrishnan had to be...

Last Thursday AFP, a French based news service and the oldest news service in the world, sued Google, the biggest search engine in the world for copyright infringement. An amount around 17 million was asked for in damages. This story will give you an overview of the situation and the damage it has done. AFP is saying Google presents AFP headlines and summaries on the search engine news aggregator...

(RSF/IFEX) - In a letter to the head of the Times of India press group, RSF has expressed concern over the harassment of journalist Pradyuman Maheshwari by the group's lawyers. Maheshwari, who operates the weblog http://www.mediaah.com, felt compelled to close the blog as a result of the harassment. "At a time when bloggers are being harassed and imprisoned in all four corners of the world, such a...

There's something inherently like the "Odd Couple" about the pairing of citizen media with a traditional newsroom. If citizen media is about being all-inclusive, with news as a conversation, old-line media has been about news coming from the mouths and pens of journalists, with the readers left to fend for themselves in the "Letters to the Editor." But when those old-line news organizations go...

Google's stated mission is "to make all the world's information available online." Agence France Presse (AFP) calls that copyright infringement. The French counterpart to the Associated Press or Reuters sued Internet search leader Google on Thursday, claiming that Google News cuts into its subscription business. Google News is a beta service launched in September 2002 that aggregates news by topic...

The internet investment firm headed by US media mogul Barry Diller is to buy web search engine Ask Jeeves for $1.85bn (£970m). Ask Jeeves is the fifth most-queried search engine in the US and has a market value of $1.43bn, one tenth the size of Mr Diller's IAC/InterActive. Mr Diller said Ask Jeeves "has the potential to become one of the great brands on the internet". The deal reflects rising...