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KATHMANDU, Oct. 17: The Ordinance to amend some provisions of the Communication Act is based on the draft act formed by a parliamentary sub-committee five years ago with the involvement of all the political parties, Federation of Nepalese Journalists and others related sectors. Speaking at a programme of the Reporter’s Club on Monday former member of the National Council Ashok Tiwari said that the...

Cutbacks in editorial departments, lowered expectations for earnings growth, and continued rises in newsprint prices would be the developments to watch out for in the newspaper industry worldwide during the coming year, a new report has indicated. Some of the predictions made by the INMA report have already started bothering the newspaper industry. Newsprint price in the United States has already...

The web has grown more in 2005 than it did at the height of the dotcom boom. Till October, the Web grew by more than 17.5 million sites, says monitoring firm Netcraft. This figure exceeds the growth of 16 million sites seen in 2000 when the Internet frenzy was at its most feverish pitch. Till October, the Web grew by more than 17.5 million sites in 2005 alone, says Internet monitoring firm...

WASHINGTON -- The anguish among New York Times staffers over the paper's handling of the Judith Miller saga has mounted in recent days, much to the consternation of its top executives. "Of course I'm concerned by the very palpable frustration in the newsroom," Executive Editor Bill Keller said yesterday. "I share it. It's excruciating to have a story and not be able to tell it, and annoying to be...

One survey vindicates another ? Hindi language dailies continue to dominate the Indian newspaper market. And English dailies barely figure in the elite top tens. Dainik Jagran, with a readership base of 1,91,74,000, is the most read newspaper in the country. Dainik Bhaskar comes second with with 1,50,92,000. These are the findings just released by the Indian Readership Survey (IRS) Round II, and...

In July 2003, Joseph C. Wilson IV, a former ambassador, created a firestorm by publishing an essay in The New York Times that accused the Bush administration of using faulty intelligence to justify the war in Iraq. The administration, he charged, ignored findings of a secret mission he had undertaken for the Central Intelligence Agency - findings, he said, that undermined claims that Iraq was...

In a notebook belonging to Judith Miller, a reporter for The New York Times, amid notations about Iraq and nuclear weapons, appear two small words: "Valerie Flame." Ms. Miller should have written Valerie Plame. That name is at the core of a federal grand jury investigation that has reached deep into the White House. At issue is whether Bush administration officials leaked the identity of Ms. Plame...

While the MPA's board of directors meeting on Sunday--held in Puerto Rico on the eve of this week's American Magazine Conference--largely took care of housekeeping, including the matter of transferring MPA chairmanship duties to Jack Kliger, president/CEO of Hachette Filipacchi Media, the board was given a preview of the highly anticipated changes to the American Society of Magazine Editors'...

Perhaps because there has been so little real news to report – before the earthquake, of course – over the last several weeks, the media themselves have become the story. Nearly everywhere I go people are discussing the media, arguing about our ethics and lamenting the trend towards sensationalising news. The most influential of the critics, of course, has been the Prime Minister. Angered by...

Would you be reading this story if it were displayed on a 2-by-2-inch screen on your BlackBerry? How about if it were electronically printed on a video scroll that spooled a few inches out of the side of your cell phone? Could you tell what was in the tiny picture? Now. Would you read this story if it were electronically printed on a paper-thin video screen the size of a tabloid newspaper, or...