2005-2014

Divya Bhaskar, the Gujarati daily from Dainik Bhaskar group, has not only increased its tally in terms of readership and circulation, it is also growing in advertising revenues. The largest read newspaper of Ahmedabad, with a readership of 9.84 lakh, is also experiencing a quantitative growth in the retail advertising, which is an accepted benchmark for product performance. The maximum growth has...

Dainik Jagran, with 270 editions across India and a colossal readership of 1.57 crore, is the undisputed leader among Indian newspapers. In a move, which is guaranteed to send ripples across the industry and particularly, a warning of sorts to the English dailies, the Hindi newspaper publisher has announced its intention to launch English and other regional language editions. The group is also...

For Marathi daily Deshonnati, which is strong in the north and central parts of Maharashtra, the challenge on hand is not only to maintain leadership, but also to move into allied areas of the state. One such area is eastern Vidarbha (located towards the border of Madhya Pradesh), whose epicentre is Nagpur; and the publication is wasting no time in foraying into this region. The newspaper, whose...

The Indian Institute of Journalism and New Media (IIJNM) has announced plans to offer television journalism courses during the upcoming academic year. The institute says that TV journalism students will learn how to write and edit broadcast news as reporters, editors and producers. They will also learn to use the latest TV production equipment in hands-on classroom exercises. New courses added to...

RSF has condemned the 29 June 2004 attack by militant Hindu nationalists of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) on the offices of the daily "Mahanagar" in Mumbai (formerly Bombay). During the raid, the BJP militants assaulted three journalists and ransacked the premises. Journalists Yuvraj Mohite, Jayesh Shirsat and Vaishali Rode were all slightly injured. The organisation pointed out that it was the...

Asian broadcasters are invited to apply for fellowships to attend a training course in the Netherlands on reporting socially divisive issues. The course will take place at the Radio Netherlands Training Center (RNTC) in Hilversum from January 31 to April 22, 2005. Full scholarships are available to mid-career journalists Bangladesh, Cambodia, China, India, Indonesia, Nepal, Philippines, Sri Lanka...

TRADITIONAL AD AGENCIES HAVE DISCOVERED that search engine marketing is beguilingly difficult. Not only is it more complicated than it seems, but it's surprisingly difficult to eek out a profit doing it. Companies offering keyword bidding tools have lulled some agencies into a false sense of confidence. "Our bidding tool will make search engine marketing effortless," they were told. What these...

New Delhi Television Ltd. (NDTV) has achieved a cash break-even in the quarter ended March 31, 2004. The turnaround in the fourth quarter took place after losses in the first three quarters. Fiscal 2003-04 was NDTV's first year of operation as a broadcaster. For the full financial year, on a consolidated basis, NDTV has reported an income of Rs 68.98 crore and a net loss of Rs 49.62 crore. The...

China is the worst violator of Internet freedom, says a report by Reporters Sans Frontieres, which also finds that Internet journalists in South Asia are vulnerable to frequent attacks because they lack the legal protection traditional media enjoys. The report, "Internet Under Surveillance 2004," examines the situation in 60 countries and zeroes in on China as the worst violator of online freedom...

The Rs 3,000-crore diversified Sanghi Group, who are promoters of Vaarttha, the no.2 daily in Andhra Pradesh, is keen on investing in more segments of media apart from print, and a potential area of interest is broadcasting. The group is set to launch a 24-hour, free-to-air, Telugu news channel before the current year draws to a close, and the objective, says Girish Sanghi, CMD, Vaarttha, is to...