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Welcome to the Berliner Guardian. No, we won't go on calling it that for long, and yes, it's an inelegant name. We tried many alternatives, related either to size or to the European origins of the format. In the end, "the Berliner" stuck. But in a short time we hope we can revert to being simply the Guardian. Many things about today's paper are different. Starting with the most obvious, the page...

So, is the new-format Guardian - neither broadsheet nor tabloid - too little, too late, or not little enough? Or has it pulled off the difficult trick of making the middle ground both radical and chic? It's two years since the Independent and The Times tested the water as tabloids and saw their sales rise. The Guardian decided not to, even though its sales were falling - and it has had to hold its...

On Sunday, Sept. 4, Tim Russert of NBC's "Meet the Press" asked Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff to explain President Bush's statement that the government couldn't have anticipated breaches in levees in New Orleans. Mr. Chertoff talked about news coverage. "Well, I think if you look at what actually happened, I remember on Tuesday morning picking up newspapers, and I saw headlines,...

LONDON (Reuters) - The Guardian newspaper is launching a revamped, compact version on Monday in a move to attract new readers and fend off the growing threat of freesheets like the Metro. The Guardian is moving to a smaller "Berliner" format, which is slightly larger than a tabloid and is currently used by continental European newspapers such as Le Monde. The shift follows similar downsizing from...

Media Research User’s Council (MRUC) first ever TV User Body meet on television ratings in India left the participants with much to ponder upon. The council and the User Body members established that the current systems were inadequate to measure TV in India and following the meet scheduled in Delhi, MRUC would decide whether it would offer alternate data or complementary data to the existing...

NEW DELHI, September 12: It's time for some bad news for politics-centric newspapers. Indians prefer news about entertainment to that about current affairs. Worse, even sports is preferred more. Still worse, Indians prefer speed of news delivery to depth of analysis as far as news is concerned. According to a study by leading global market research company, Synovate, 61 per cent consumers in India...

Yahoo Inc. has been talking like a major media company. Today it will start acting like one. Ten months after Lloyd Braun, former chairman of the ABC television network, began plotting the company's content strategy, the Internet giant plans to announce today the first of many original programs expected to come from the Yahoo Media Group headquarters in Santa Monica. Yahoo, which for years...

Yahoo! has made its first move into original online video programming by hiring a seasoned TV news reporter to report on wars worldwide. "Kevin Sites in the Hot Zone" launches Sept. 26 and will focus entirely on his travels as a war correspondent, The New York Times reported Monday. Yahoo!'s Lloyd Braun told the Times the Web portal is looking to develop signature programming news, sports, health...

Yahoo said Monday it will add the role of online news generator to its familiar role as news aggregator with firsthand reports from areas of armed conflict around the world. Starting later this month, the portal company plans to feature reports by Kevin Sites, a veteran television correspondent, to be the single source of news for "Kevin Sites in the Hot Zone." Mr. Sites, 42, is a self-styled...

NEW YORK – Internet media company Yahoo Inc on Monday said it had hired a veteran war correspondent to tell personalized tales from conflicts around the world in a bid to bring younger viewers back into the news fold. Journalist Kevin Sites, whose video footage of a U.S. Marine shooting dead an unarmed Iraqi prisoner in a Falluja mosque last year prompted widespread controversy, will visit 31...