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NEW DELHI, September 2: C4 Media & Communications, a media company promoted by Chandra Prakash Gupta, former senior associate editor of the Hindi daily, ‘Hindustan’, and mentored by Naresh Mohan, former executive president of ‘Hindustan Times’, is set to launch a weekly Hindi news magazine, ‘Har Shanivar’, on September 3. A general interest magazine, ‘Har Shanivar’ will have 64-plus, all-colour...

THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: The Press Council of India (PCI) on Thursday accepted a petition against leading vernacular daily Malayala Manorama for allegedly tricking "thousands of people" in investing with a company the paper had reportedly backed. Thomas T. George, a petitioner representing the Integrated Finance Company Depositors Association (IFCDA) had filed the petition against being misled in...

Kochi (Kerala) : A court Friday issued summons to the Madyamam newspaper in a defamation case filed by Malayala Manorama chief editor K.M. Mathew. The Ernakulam first class judicial magistrate asked respondent Madyamam and its editor and others to appear before it Oct 3. This is the second newspaper that Manorama has taken to court in the past one week. Last week the same court had issued summons...

Among the many cruelties delivered by Hurricane Katrina, there was this: The people most in need of information about the storm were the least likely to be able to see, hear or read about it. Journalists from the two hardest-hit areas -- New Orleans and the adjacent Gulf Coast of Mississippi -- have labored to describe the unfolding catastrophe. They have worked around demolished newsrooms and...

CBS News sent a boat packed with supplies -- including desperately needed fuel -- to rendezvous with its crew hunkered down in New Orleans. CNN was securing boats to navigate the flood zones and checked into renting dump trucks (the better to plow through rising waters). NBC News located mammoth recreational vehicles that sleep six, have working toilets and showers, and are packed with supplies...

Staff at news outlets in New Orleans and the surrounding southern US improvised to produce makeshift internet-only coverage after one of the country's most severe environmental disasters hit regular publishing operations hard. In Hurricane Katrina's aftermath, the city's daily Times-Picayune was unable to print or deliver newspapers so resorted to distributing PDF editions on the paper's website...

The New Orleans Times-Picayune is doing an excellent job in keeping publishing despite the Hurricane Katrina catastrophe. After offices were flooded the paper published only online using pdfs. The paper publishes on NOLA.com, a New Orleans local website that was launched in 1998 in affiliation with The Times-Picayune. The paper has set up a list of missing persons, where people can post...

With their presses and offices underwater, print and broadcast journalists in New Orleans are leaning on the Web to keep the news churning in the wake of Hurricane Katrina. According to the Wall Street Journal, the New Orleans Times-Picayune, which has been in operation since 1837, refuses to go unpublished even in the midst of the catastrophe. Managing Editor Dan Shea and many of his staff have...

A Raging Debate in Nowhere Land Earlier this month, New Scientist reported the astonishing news that the world's largest frozen peat bog, comprising an area the size of France and Germany combined, was melting. According to researchers who have been studying the permafrost of western Serbia, the bog could unleash billions of tonnes of methane, a greenhouse gas twenty times as potent as carbon...

AB Ravi, Founder and Executive Editor of USP Age, has put in his papers. He will be joining CNBC-TV 18 as Consulting Editor-Special Projects from September 15, 2005. Confirming the news, Ravi said, "I have been associated with business magazines for a long time now. I have had three magazine launches, including USP Age, Health and Nutrition, and Fortune India. Since I want to explore new areas, I...