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Online newspaper readership continued to climb in the second quarter of 2005, reaching a peak audience of 43.7 million unique visitors during the month of May, representing nearly 30 percent of all adults online in that period – the highest monthly total in 18 months of tracking. For the second quarter, the audience of online newspapers represented a reach of nearly 29 percent, an increase of 0.15...

The latest print campaign of the India Today Group, which has been running for over two weeks now, has certainly created murmurs. We are talking about the ad where India Today, based on NRS 2005 figures, claims to be ‘Ahead of the Times’. The catch, however, is that the layout of the ad is almost a replica of the front page of ‘The Times of India’ – fonts, masthead, et al. So much so that at first...

When George Freeman, assistant general counsel for the New York Times, makes his way to his office at the Times' Manhattan headquarters, his colleagues usually raise the same topic of conversation: Judy Miller. As one of the attorneys working on Miller's behalf, Freeman says his co-workers are never-ending in their curiosity about the case. "People ask me about it every day, on the elevator...

HYDERABAD: Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister Y S Rajasekhara Reddy yesterday said journalists were not above the law and asked them to stop interviewing Maoist guerrillas, which he said was a crime. Shocked and anguished at the killing of senior Congress legislator C Narsi Reddy and eight others by Maoists on Independence Day, he said journalists interviewing Maoists were committing a "major crime"...

CONSUMERS APPEAR TO HAVE GROWN more protective of their online privacy, according to new research by Cambridge, Mass.-based personalization technology company ChoiceStream. A May e-mail survey of 923 U.S. online adults revealed that just 32 percent were willing to allow Web sites to track their clicks and purchases in exchange for personalized content, down from 41 percent in 2004. At the same...

DESPITE ALL OF THE HYPE surrounding Really Simple Syndication feeds, just 11 percent of blog readers--which translates to about 2 percent of U.S. Web users--use RSS tools to manage blog feeds, according to a report released Monday by Nielsen//NetRatings. Nearly 5 percent of blog readers use feed aggregation software, and more than 6 percent use a feed aggregating Web site to monitor RSS feeds from...

Lok Sabha Speaker Somnath Chatterjee said on Tuesday that he will give his ruling this week on the breach of privilege notice against the author and the daily Pioneer, containing critical references against him. Raising the issue during the Zero Hour, Devendra Prasad Yadav of the Rashtriya Janata Dal said the issue should be referred to the privileges committee since a deliberate attempt had been...

An upcoming competition will recognize the year’s best coverage of technology issues by journalists in developing and transition countries. Print, radio, TV and Web journalists are eligible for the 2005 Reporting on the Information Society Awards, organized by Panos London and the Global Knowledge Partnership (GKP). Application deadline: September 15. This year's theme: "Where is the money for...

Yahoo! Inc.'s China Web site warns users they're not allowed to post content that "divulges state secrets, subverts the government or undermines national unity." Yahoo's India site has no such prohibition. Undeterred by China's restrictions, Yahoo, owner of the world's most-visited Web portal, last week paid $1 billion for a 40 percent stake in China's biggest online commerce firm, Alibaba.com...

Rosemary Goudreau, the editorial page editor of The Tampa Tribune, has received the same e-mail message a dozen times over the last year. "Did you know that 47 countries have re-established their embassies in Iraq?" the anonymous polemic asks, in part. "Did you know that 3,100 schools have been renovated?" "Of course we didn't know!" the message concludes. "Our media doesn't tell us!" Ms. Goudreau...