2005-2014

If a book on the Indian media business prompts its author to rush into a revised edition within three years of its bestselling success, it means only one thing – the Indian media landscape is changing, and changing quite rapidly. THE BOOK FOR THE SEASON: When Vanita Kohli-Khandekar wrote The Indian Media Business in 2003, it went on to become a bestseller. For a number of reasons. For one, it was...

DOHA, Qatar - The Al-Jazeera International network has set a launch date of Nov. 15, although it's still not clear whether anybody in the United States will be able to see it. The English-language offshoot of the influential Arab network Al-Jazeera will begin operations at 7 a.m. ET out of its Doha, Qatar headquarters, the network announced on Tuesday. The network operates with four main offices...

THE future of Government's news agency might be in doubt if the cash-strapped parastatal does not get a much-needed financial injection soon to operate as a commercialised entity, the Auditor General's office has warned. The Namibia Press Agency (Nampa) made a net loss of N$1,71 million in the financial year ending March 31 2005, some N$352 000 more than the previous financial year despite...

THE future of Government’s news agency might be in doubt if the cash-strapped parastatal does not get a much-needed financial injection soon to operate as a commercialised entity, the Auditor General’s office has warned. The Namibia Press Agency (Nampa) made a net loss of N$1,71 million in the financial year ending March 31 2005, some N$352 000 more than the previous financial year despite...

(WPFC/IFEX) - The WPFC has given a Fund Against Censorship grant to Argentinean journalist and author Mariano Saravia, an investigative reporter who has been sued for civil defamation after writing a book naming former armed forces and police officers whom he alleges participated in assassinations, tortures and disappearances of people opposed to the former military dictatorship. Because of the...

The Pentagon's new effort to influence media coverage of the war in Iraq is an example of how governments react when a war is not going too well. They begin to think it is not the war that is the problem, but the presentation of it. The media, being the messengers, get the blame, not the message itself. The plan, detailed in a memo seen by the Associated Press news agency, is for a rapid response...

Chennai: The publication in The Hindu of a Reuters photograph of Qutubbin Naseeruddin Ansari, a victim of communal violence in Gujarat, with captions, showed no "mal-intent on the part of the newspaper and even the various headings given over a period of time did not substantially differ from the sum and substance of the caption given by Reuters" but "the newspaper should have avoided mentioning...

Lucknow, Oct 20 (IANS) Uttar Pradesh's ruling Samajwadi Party, assembly speaker Mata Prasad Pandey as well as the opposition appear to have closed ranks to haul up CNN-IBN editor-in-chief Rajdeep Sardesai for a sting operation that his television channel carried out exposing blatant corrupt practices of a state minister as well as some legislators. Just as Speaker Mata Prasad Pandey, of the...

PDF workflows and high-speed Internet access have dramatically changed magazine manufacturing, especially on smaller magazines. These days it’s common for a title to have a freelance designer, often off-site. On deadline, files fly back and forth, thanks to FTP sites. Final files are frequently sent to the printer from an outsourced designer’s location and at his or her convenience. So if a...

Oct. 30 (Bloomberg) -- U.S. daily newspapers are losing readers at an accelerating rate, led by big-city publications such as the Miami Herald and Los Angeles Times. Circulation at 770 daily newspapers declined 2.8 percent in the six months ended Sept. 30, the Newspaper Association of America said today in a statement, citing data from the Audit Bureau of Circulations. In the year-ago period...