2005-2014

The International Federation of Journalists (IFJ), the global organisation representing over 500,000 journalists worldwide, today expressed concern over an alarming pattern of attacks against the media in Maharashtra, India after three incidents of attacks against journalists in a one-week period. "Three attacks against journalists in a one-week period is a frightening statement about the status...

The Maharashtra-based Lokmat Group of Newspapers has not only banked on an aggressive strategy of launching editions, especially, in the case of flagship brand Lokmat, it has also attempted to improve the distribution of its publications. One reason for this is the sheer pressure of competition not only from players within the print medium, but also from allied media such as television. The group...

Bhaskar Group has recently taken over Gujarati daily Saurashtra Samachar, the leading newspaper of the Saurashtra region. Girish Agarwal, director, marketing, Dainik Bhaskar, says, "We found Saurashtra Samachar to be a highly rated Gujarati newspaper that would add-value to our publication and when the opportunity of taking over Saurashtra Samachar came to us, we just availed it." The deal was...

Militants of the Hindu nationalist Shiv Sena Party attacked three journalists of the Marathi-language daily Mahanagar in Malvan, Maharashtra State in the west of the country on 28 August. The editor Nikhil Wagle (photo) and two journalists Yuvraj Mohite and Pramod Nirgudkar were beaten and sprayed with petrol by a crowd of rioters in the street. The editor Nikhil Wagle accused Narayan Rane, local...

It’s a study in contrast in some ways for China and India. Although government initiatives may have an adverse impact on newspapers in People’s Republic of China, they’ll be helpful for India, according to a Price-waterhouseCoopers (PwC) survey. In the case of China, it talks about government ending newspaper subsidies; and for India, it refers to relaxation of foreign investment norms. But, in...

Two unidentified assailants stabbed the editor of the Marathi-language daily Mahanagar outside his office in Mumbai on the evening of August 24. The Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) is investigating whether the attack was related to Sajid Rashid's work as a journalist. The men approached Rashid, 48, as he was leaving his office and stabbed him twice, according to the Express News Service...

RSF has expressed deep shock at the attempted murder of Sajid Rashid, editor of the Hindi-language edition of the daily "Mahanagar". Rashid was stabbed twice in the back on the evening of 24 August 2004, in Mumbai (formerly Bombay). The organisation called on the Maharashtra state authorities to take all necessary measures to identify and arrest those responsible for the attack and to protect the...

"The activities at Prasar Bharati has increased by 900 times but the staff strength has increased by only 10 per cent," says K S Sarma, CEO, Prasar Bharati, while announcing that Prasar Bharati will be recruiting 6,000 people. The current staff strength of Prasar Bharati, including Doordarshan and All India Radio, is 45,000. The maximum recruitment will happen for subordinate engineering service...

The U.K.-based Reuters news agency has announced plans to eliminate 20 editorial positions in the United States and Europe and hire as many as 60 replacements in India in an effort to save money, the Washington Post and international media reported. Reuters spokesman Steve Naru said the journalists, working out of an office in Bangalore, will be responsible for writing short research alerts based...

Thirty years ago, on August 9, 1974, the Washington Post ran what was then the largest front-page headline in its history: "Nixon Resigns." That date marked both the end of Richard Nixon's presidency and the beginning of three decades of debate about what role journalism played in uncovering the Watergate scandal that forced Nixon from office – and how Watergate, in turn, influenced journalism...