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Turner International and Global Broadcast News (GBN), a TV18 group company, have announced a partnership to launch a cobranded, 24-hour, English-language general news channel in India. Rajdeep Sardesai will be the editor-in-chief of the channel. The co-branded service, CNN-IBN, will build upon the foundation of TV18's newsgathering experience and infrastructure in India, bolstered by CNN's...

NEW YORK -(Dow Jones)- Internet search engines are riding a monster wave of online-advertising dollars. But last week it became clear one company - Google Inc. (GOOG) - is catching it more expertly than others. Blockbuster third-quarter financial results from Google showed the search leader is growing much faster than its top rivals Yahoo Inc. (YHOO). Google's revenue rose 96% to $1.6 billion...

You've been hearing the same type of news, quarter after quarter. Internet advertising is growing -- and the companies who are at the forefront of the advertising market are getting richer. While that's important for the Web companies that are raking in the dough, it's just as important for businesses that want to use the Internet to advertise their products and services. Companies spent $5.8...

THE chief of one of the world's biggest advertising groups has that leading media companies such as News Corp are on the verge of panic amid seismic shifts brought on by the internet. WPP chief executive Martin Sorrell singled out the recent internet acquisition spree by Rupert Murdoch's media conglomerate as one sign that media groups are scrambling to catch up, saying News Corp, publisher of...

All is woe and darkness in the house of media. If you were measuring journalists' public standing on a scale of 1 to 10, 10 being the best, right now we're in less-than-zero territory, thanks to The New York Times and its dodgy handling of the Plame spy case. A few days ago, as the entire politico-media establishment was on 24-hour indictment watch, The New York Sun reported that widespread...

The dangerous march toward monolithic media has now threatened the irreverent and vibrant alternative press. The latest assault on the independent press is the creation of a mega-chain of weeklies that stretch from Florida to Seattle. The merger of Phoenix-based New Times Media and New York-based Village Voice Media, which owns the Seattle Weekly, is bad for democracy. The merger places 17...

How bad is the New Times alt-weekly chain’s takeover of Village Voice Media for the Voice-owned L.A. Weekly? Pretty bad. New Times founder and executive editor Michael Lacey, never famous for his tact, has long had the habit of dismissing competitors in the Birkenstock-wearing world of alt-weeklies as "raggedy-ass" publications filled with "espresso-crazed lefties," and he expands his empire with...

Here in media world, we're all quite cross at The New York Times and its former star reporter, Judith Miller. She is widely believed to have sought her martyrdom as a career move. And then she gave up after a mere couple of months in jail. What a wuss! And the Times: this great institution let a mere reporter lead it around by its nose, with predictable results. What a superwuss! But this latest...

LONDON - The debate about internet versus non-internet advertising will become obsolete over the next 10 years, Bill Gates said today. Speaking at the IAB Engage 2005 conference in London, the Microsoft chairman and chief software architect told delegates that traditional media such as television, newspapers and magazines would move to being delivered via the internet within the next decade...

Paris-based press freedom organisation Reporters sans Frontières (RSF) has been named one of the three joint winners of this year's Sakharov Prize for the freedom of thought. RSF shares the award with the Ladies in White, a group of wives of jailed Cuban dissidents, and Nigerian human rights lawyer Hauwa Ibrahim, who represents women who face being stoned to death for adultery and people facing...