2005-2014

The age-old tension of free vs. paid-for content online is up for questioning again, as The New York Times explores the profitability of print newspapers who offer free online content. The main source of Web editions' revenues come from online advertising, which news publishers fear will decline if they begin to charge access fees. Newspaper publishers with a Web presence also fear that mandated...

What we take for granted today, satellite television or cellular telephone or even a humble Walkman, were part of sci-fi a mere quarter of a century ago. Even as we debate a new convergence policy in India and wonder whether we need a content regulator or talk about new spectrum allocation, the viability or desirability of direct-to-home television and broadband, a socio-economic revolution is...

IRS 2005 R1 numbers are here and in publications that have reasons to celebrate, Dainik Jagran is right on top. A look at the top twenty publications shows that while players like Malayala Manorama have dropped places due to readership dip, print giant Times of India too shows a fall this round. Sheer readership growth puts Jagran again on top where the publication registers the highest growth...

As far as the Hindi publications are concerned, the top four players are dailies. What proves to be encouraging further for the dailies is the fact that all the four top dailies, Dainik Jagran, Dainik Bhaskar, Amar Ujala and Hindustan have also recorded a further increase in readership. Where Dainik Jagran has grown by a 10,71,000, Bhaskar has grown by 3,88,000, Amar Ujala by 4,25,000 and...

Times of India is the print king and a simple reason is the readership figure of 70,51,000 that it enjoys. Last IRS round however, this figure was 70,98,000, giving the daily a dip of 47,000. India Today takes the second slot. However, the publication drops by 1,49,000 recording a readership of 40,47,000 in comparison to the last IRS figure of 41,96,000. Hindustan Times, the only daily to register...

Slogan-shouting youth believed to be Shiv Sainiks went on the rampage in the India Today office on Friday, smashing computer screens and destroying furniture with iron rods and sticks. The glass door at the entrance to the magazine’s plush office on the fifth floor of Jolly Maker building at Nariman Point was smashed to smithereens. The Sainiks shouted "Mani Shankar Murdabad" and protested...

In the last two years social networking sites mushroomed across the net, heavily fertilized by hype and the promise of six degrees of connection between socially dispersed people who shared common interests or friends. Now companies actively apply social networking principles to shift more stock and lure more clickthrus to their site. In 2003, social networking sites Friendster, tribe.net and...

Reporters Without Borders today wrote to the Canadian justice minister with its position on an important question of law for online media that has been raised by a former UN official's libel action in Canada against the Washington Post, namely can a journalist whose article has been published on the Internet be sued anywhere it can be downloaded ? The Washington Post appealed on 8 March. The text...

The main Opposition Congress members staged a walk out in Chhattisgarh Assembly on the issue of alleged assault on a journalist of a local Hindi daily published from Raipur. During zero hour, leader of Opposition Mahendra Karma raised the issue of assault on the Journalist of a Hindi daily by police on Monday night. Alleging that oppression of journalists had increased during Chief Minister Raman...

News junkies who make the daily pilgrimage to the Google News site now have more control over how they see their news with new customization options, officials said Thursday. The Mountain View, Calif., company added a bevy of new features to its seemingly perpetual beta news site, allowing users to re-arrange the sections on the page, create keyword-driven custom sections and even mix-and-match...