2005-2014

This is another story of David defeating Goliath, except that David won the fight without even knowing it. At the recent Online Journalism Awards banquet in Hollywood, the finalists for General Excellence (Small Sites) included the Center for Public Integrity, Congressional Quarterly's CQ.com, PBS' Frontline World, PBS' POV, and the VenturaCountyStar.com. While the latter site is indeed owned by...

Yahoo confirmed Friday that it has hired newspaper veteran Neil Budde to run its news operations. Budde, who will begin his position at Yahoo on Nov. 15, was the founding editor and publisher of The Wall Street Journal Online edition. Budde ran the majority of the operations for WSJ.com and was behind the decision to turn it into a subscription-only site. Yahoo spokeswoman Joanna Stevens declined...

The battered body of a local newspaper editor from the eastern state of Orissa was found by the side of a highway near the village of Bhagirathipur on Tuesday, November 9, police sources told the Press Trust of India (PTI), a national newswire service. Dilip Mohapatra, editor of the Oriya-language newspaper Aji Kagoj, disappeared on Monday, November 8. His body was discovered the next day on the...

Midway through the first breakout session of BloggerCon III -- "podcasting" led by pied piper Adam Curry -- I realized that covering this "unconference" would be akin to trying to empty the ocean with a teaspoon. Five days later I'm still trying to sort through the myriad ideas, the intense emotions and the amazing flow of information. I'll probably be at it five weeks from now and even five...

The International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) the global organisation of journalists, representing over 500,000 journalists worldwide, has today condemned the brutal murder of an Oriya language newspaper editor in India. The horrific murder of 45-year-old Dilip Mohapatra, editor of Aji Kagaj, on Tuesday, 9 November, is believed to be the 100th murder of a journalist killed worldwide in 2004...

By all accounts, Internet advertising is finally clicking on all cylinders with total sales in the second quarter reaching a record $2.37 billion, according to the Interactive Advertising Bureau. That financial quarter marks the seventh consecutive quarter for growth in online ads. But then we hear that pioneering sites and services such as MarketWatch, Slate and DoubleClick -- who are all reaping...

The International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) the global organisation of journalists, representing over 500,000 journalists worldwide is concerned over the recent violence directed towards journalists and media workers in Kerala, India. "It is unacceptable for journalists to be attacked in attempts to intimidate or censor reports," said IFJ President Christopher Warren today. "Journalists must...

The International Federation of Journalists (IFJ), the global organisation of journalists representing over 500,000 journalists worldwide, is concerned over the recent violence directed towards journalists and media workers in Kerala, India. "It is unacceptable for journalists to be attacked in attempts to intimidate or censor reports," said IFJ President Christopher Warren today. "Journalists...

The dirty secret of most news Web sites is that their biggest viewership comes during the day, when people are at work and should be working. On Election Day in the U.S., you can't blame people for spending their work hours hunting around online for exit poll numbers, the supposedly closely guarded numbers that came this year from the National Election Pool, a group effort created by ABC, the...

It's no secret that Bengalis simply adore Durga Puja and everything associated with the celebrations. Therefore, it's little wonder that the Anandabazar Patrika Puja website, anandautsav.com has been a major hit with this community; the website pocketed a cool 10 million hits in only 15 days. Between October 15 and October 25, about 1 lakh Internet users from across the world had visited this...