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NEW DELHI, August 24: Hindustan Times has won a Special Mention award at the 2005 World Young Reader Prizes awarded by the World Association of Newspapers (WAN). The prize was given to HT's project " Learning for Life Aajivan Shiksha", produced by HT PACE ? the Hindustan Times NIE programmme. WAN said: "This is the latest in the illustrious series from the newspaper that has accomplished a great...

NEW YORK: The American public may be more interested in national security than ever, but they feel that the media and the U.S. military keep them poorly informed about what they need to know. At least that's what a new poll shows, which finds that 60% of Americans believe they do not get enough information about military matters to make educated decisions. A McCormick Tribune Foundation/Gallup...

In small rooms beyond a corridor busy with a bathroom queue, dorm bunks and backpacks, the Wikipedians are plotting the new world order. Mild-mannered men hatch wild schemes of omniscience with dreams to bring democracy to Iran, education to Indonesia and the next Einstein from Africa. They gathered at an inauspicious hostel in Frankfurt this month for the first international Wikimania conference...

NEW DELHI, August 24: Online revenues of newspapers in the US will skyrocket by an estimated 36 per cent to reach $1.4 billion this year. This rise in revenues is going to continue for the next few years by 23 per cent next year, 16 per cent in 2007, and 18 per cent in 2008. The predictions have been made by eMarketer in its report "Online Publishing: Focus on Newspapers." The predictions have...

ONLINE AD REVENUES AT NEWSPAPERS surged to $500.7 million in the second quarter--representing a jump of about 29 percent from the same period a year ago, according to preliminary estimates released Monday by the Newspaper Association of America. Overall, ad revenues at newspaper companies totaled $12.2 billion for the second quarter of this year--showing just 2.8 percent growth from last year....

NEW YORK – Media conglomerate Viacom Inc. on Tuesday said it signed a multiyear advertising and Web search distribution deal with Internet media company Yahoo Inc. Financial terms were not disclosed. Yahoo will provide Web search services and paid search to Viacom's range of online properties including CBSNews.com, BET.com and MTV.com. Web search is seen accounting for about 40 percent of all...

AUSTIN, TEXAS – When students wander into the former University of Texas undergraduate library this fall, gone will be the "Quiet Please" signs, the ban on cheeseburgers or sodas, the sight of solemn librarians restocking books. The fact is, there will be no more books to restock. The UT library is undergoing a radical change, becoming more of a social gathering place more akin to a coffeehouse...

HYDERABAD, SEPT. 22. The Chief Minister, Y. S. Rajasekhara Reddy, on Wednesday called upon journalists to write about issues in a dispassionate manner, rising above denominational considerations and always keeping in mind, betterment of the society. Inaugurating the year-long Golden Jubilee celebrations of the Osmania University Department of Communication and Journalism here, Dr. Reddy narrated...

Marketers are always on the lookout for innovative mediums to promote their products and services and connect well with their target consumer. While the Internet offers many possibilities, of late ‘blogging’ and, most recently, ‘podcasting’ are getting attention from Mr Marketer. The question is whether blogging is just a fad or is it here to stay. Talking to exchange4media, S N Bhaduri, VP, e...

NEW DELHI, August 22: Two news channels and an English daily have been held guilty of revealing the identity of the minor boy involved in the MMS sex scandal by a juvenile court here. The court said they had they tried to sensationalise the case for "commercial gains". Juvenile Justice Board Principal Magistrate Santosh Snehi Mann, in her 31-page order, said, "NDTV, ZEE TV and Times of India had...