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MORE THAN TWO YEARS AFTER Google launched AdSense, Yahoo! today will unveil a beta version of its own network for small and mid-size publishers. Yahoo! plans to invite about 2,000 smaller publishers into the new offering, Yahoo! Publisher Network, before expanding further by the end of the year, said Will Johnson, general manager-vice president of Yahoo! Publisher Network Online. At launch, the...

NEW YORK The board of The American Society of Journalists and Authors (ASJA) has voted unanimously to not endorse an earlier decision to give a Conscience in Media award to jailed New York Times reporter Judith Miller, E&P has learned. The group's First Amendment committee had narrowly voted to give Miller the prize for her dedication to protecting sources, but the full board has now voted to not...

Rajdeep Sardesai’s dream run for his ‘journalist-driven channel’ has entered the last phase as key people are now on board and the team is almost ready. Sardesai’s wife, Sagarika Ghose, ex-Senior Editor of Indian Express and anchor of ‘Question Time India’ on BBC World, has joined India Broadcast News (IBN) as Editor, News Features. Sardesai has also roped in another key man from Indian Express...

In an interesting turn of events, Sandipan Deb, Managing Editor of Outlook, and second in command to Editor-in-Chief Vinod Mehta, has put in his papers, putting an end to a decade-long stint with the publishing house. He will be joining the Indian Express Group in September to start a magazine division there. And he is not alone. He is taking with him three senior hands from Outlook. Rajesh Jha...

The New York Times plans to integrate its traditional print newsroom with its online newsroom, top management said Tuesday. Staffers from the print side and from NYTimes.com will start collaborating on coverage much more frequently than they do now, said Bill Keller, executive editor of the Times, and Martin Nisenholtz, senior vice president for digital operations for the New York Times Co., in a...

Out of excuses? It sure seems like it. In the not-too-distant past, journalism sages, columnists and otherwise rational old people were quick to condemn the ethically lax, morally inept, not-able-to-handle-the-pressure-of-the-big-time "kids these days" as the root of the plagiarism and fabrication problem. Young journalists--whom one newspaper columnist I interviewed defined as anyone under the...

Ken Paulson strolled across the stage, a wireless mike in his hand and an affable expression on his face. I'd heard his style at monthly staff meetings compared to both Phil Donahue's and Mister Rogers'. When I attended one in June, the editor of USA Today didn't take off his shoes, wear a cardigan or sing about the beautiful day in the neighborhood. But he did flash PowerPoint pictures (to oohs...

The newspaper editorial, in its traditional form, is strictly an insider's game: The elite group of writers on the editorial board hash out their opinions, draw their own conclusions and assert their stance in the morning paper. In June, the Los Angeles Times took a bold, though temporary, departure from that model when it used a new technology to open up one of its editorials to what amounted to...

An international meeting of environmental journalists will take place this November in India. Several of the scheduled sessions are relevant to environmental coverage anywhere, while others will focus on issues facing the host country – in particular the disappearance of tigers. The International Federation of Environmental Journalists (IFEJ) has scheduled its annual congress for November 21 to 24...

This article may only add hype to the exaggerated newspaper war in Mumbai. For hyped it has been by all means. There is a dash of the ironical here for it is, more often than not, the media which is accused, not always wrongly, of blowing up an event or a developing story out of proportion – be it for the sake of TAM ratings (in case of television channels) or NRS/IRS figures (in case of print...