2005-2014

The big three of the Indian newspaper market – Dainik Jagran, Dainik Bhaskar and Eenadu – have retained their position, according to the just-released findings of the National Readership Survey (NRS) 2006. And yes, there is not a single English daily in the Top 10 bracket. HOLDING ON TO ITS POSITION: Dainik Jagran with a readership base of 21,165,000 remains the most widely read newspaper despite...

U.S. military leaders in Baghdad have put out for bid a two-year, $20 million public relations contract that calls for extensive monitoring of U.S. and Middle Eastern media in an effort to promote more positive coverage of news from Iraq. The contract calls for assembling a database of selected news stories and assessing their tone as part of a program to provide "public relations products" that...

Newspapers in the United States (US) are successfully extending their reach beyond the core printed products, resulting in net increases in audience, a new study from Scarborough Research has found. The findings are from its Integrated Newspaper Audience (INA) project, a measurement that combines the audience of traditional printed newspapers with the audience of their websites. BIG PHOENIX MARKET...

The typical New Zealand journalist is a European women in her 30s who works as a reporter for a newspaper, holds a bachelor's degree, has less than five years experience, is paid about $40,000 a year, has no religious belief – and probably speaks French well enough to conduct an interview with Jacques Chirac. THE NEXT TYPICAL JOURNALIST: A journalism student at Massey University Journalism

For newspapers in the US it is less and lesser of print vs online now – as online news becomes a regular part of the daily routines of average Americans, newspapers are expanding their reach to the Web and rapidly developing new products and tools especially for their websites, a new study has revealed. BLOGGING BOSTON: The Boston Globe offers a particularly robust network of blogs. There are...

AHMEDABAD: The editor of a Gujarati eveninger published from Surat was arrested on charges of defamation and using abusive language in his editorial. "The editor was arrested on Tuesday under various sections of Indian Penal Code (IPC) including 124 (a) for attempting to create hatred and contempt for the government, established by law," Surat Police Commissioner Sudhir Sinha said. Samna editor...

AN already grim landscape for independent media in Russia has grown even bleaker with the sale of one of the last major independent newspapers to Kremlin-connected billionaire Alisher Usmanov, journalists and analysts said today. Mr Usmanov announced the purchase late yesterday of the Kommersant publishing house from Georgian tycoon Badri Patarkatsishvili, a business partner of exiled Russian...

China's bloggers—33.4 million strong at last count, and growing fast—can be an unforgiving bunch when something displeases them. In recent weeks a Western English teacher in Shanghai whose blog, Chinabounder, described his sexual conquests of Chinese women drew the venom of netizens and prompted a frenzy of nationalist outrage, including castration threats and calls by a Shanghai Academy of Social...

UNITED NATIONS, Aug. 30 (UPI) -- The International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia has found a Croatian journalist in contempt for publishing sealed documents. The Hague-based tribunal fined Josip Jovic, a former editor-in-chief of the Croatian daily newspaper Slobodna Dalmacija, $25,612, said a judgment issued Wednesday. In a series of articles appearing in November and December 2000...

The 15-year-old brother of a BBC reporter has been killed in Pakistan's tribal region of South Waziristan. Taimur Khan, brother of Dilawar Khan Wazir, was found with severe head wounds in the town of Wana on Wednesday after going missing on Tuesday night. He later succumbed to his injuries in hospital. Officials say it is not clear who carried out the attack or why. The Khans' house was targeted...