2005-2014

NEW YORK (AdAge.com) -- "Engagement" has begun to resemble a Holy Grail of magazine metrics -- neither fully understood nor precisely located, but the object of countless quests. A new study on engagement, one among many efforts to demystify the subject, delivers a blow to true believers. Performance findings The study suggests that ads in high-engagement magazines perform no better than ads in...

Most women who work in sports media say they are satisfied with their career choice despite discrimination and abuse, according to a just-released study. Three decades after passage of Title IX, women who work in sports journalism and sports information face serious obstacles to tenure and advancement, according to a survey by the Center for Sports Journalism at Penn State. Most women report that...

NEW DELHI: The Supreme Court on Monday dismissed the anticipatory bail petition of Sunil Mehra, Editor of magazine 'Maxim', against whom a case has been lodged for publishing indecent morphed photographs of south Indian film actress Khushboo. "This (publication of the indecent photograph) is a blatant attempt to increase the circulation of your magazine," a vacation Bench comprising Justice Arijit...

NEW YORK (AdAge.com) -- "Engagement" has begun to resemble a Holy Grail of magazine metrics -- neither fully understood nor precisely located, but the object of countless quests. A new study on engagement, one among many efforts to demystify the subject, delivers a blow to true believers. Performance findings The study suggests that ads in high-engagement magazines perform no better than ads in...

WALVIS BAY, Namibia (Reuters) - A Namibian judge dismissed charges on Monday against a South African photographer arrested for trespassing while trying to snap a shot of pregnant superstar Angelina Jolie and her partner Brad Pitt. John Liebenberg was taken into custody on Friday afternoon after driving into the back of a police barracks in search of a vantage point to take a photograph of a nearby...

For centuries access to the world’s information – and the ability to communicate it – was controlled by the wealthy and the well educated. Today the internet has broken down many of the barriers that exist between people and information: effectively democratising access to human knowledge. By typing just a few key words into a computer it is possible to find out about almost any subject. In a...

TWENTY-FIRST-CENTURY media companies are well-positioned to take advantage of a changing global economy and are inventing new ways of monetizing previously unused audience assets, according to the chairman and CEO of Yahoo!, one of the largest Internet companies. At least 500 million of the one billion people connected to the Internet use one of Yahoo!’s services at least once a month, according...

Palestinian Authority Chairman Mahmoud Abbas has filed a libel suit against a prominent Palestinian editor who called him a mafia leader and accused him of financial corruption. The case against Abdel Bari Atwan, editor of the London-based al-Quds al-Arabi, was filed with a PA magistrate's court in Ramallah by Abbas's sons, Tarek and Yasser. This is the first time that Abbas has filed a libel suit...

European political correctness allows Muslims to resist integration, argues the culture editor of Jyllands-Posten. Instead, Muslims should be treated just like all Europeans -- including being subject to satire. He argues that publishing the caricatures was an act of "inclusion, not exclusion." The worldwide furor unleashed by the cartoons of the Prophet Muhammed that I published last September in...

NDTV Resident Editor Manish Kumar and cameraman Akram Ali were injured when pro-quota medical students attacked them with sticks and stones at the Patna Medical College and Hospital (PMCH) here today. They were attacked when they went to the hospital to interview students who were injured earlier in a baton-charge by police on pro-quota protestors who had turned violent. As Kumar and Ali arrived...