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MUMBAI, July 5: Dainik Jagran has joined hands with Radio City for cross-promotional activities. A senior executive at the Jagran Group says, "This is a mutually beneficial relationship. Radio City, unlike its competitors (read Radio Mirchi and Red FM), doesn’t have a print back up. On the other hand, this deal provides an opportunity for the Jagran Group to reach out to Radio City audiences." As...

ROME, Jul 5 (IPS) - Inter Press Service International Association has elected a new Board of Directors and Director General to serve for the next three years. The new slate of executives will head the IPS association of 110 journalists and other communications professionals from around the globe, a majority of whom are from the developing South. Following an election process which lasted more than...

Readership is critical for any publication. Especially when media planners chart out ad revenues based on readership figures. In the case of niche publications, which survey serves their interest best? Is it National Readership Survey (NRS), Indian Readership Survey (IRS) or is it the Decision Makers’ Survey (DMS). Let’s take a closer look. The readership figures of four leading business...

Independent, aggressive and critical media are essential to an informed democracy. But mainstream media are increasingly cozy with the economic and political powers they should be watchdogging. Mergers in the news industry have accelerated, further limiting the spectrum of viewpoints that have access to mass media. With U.S. media outlets overwhelmingly owned by for-profit conglomerates and...

Newspapers are cockroaches. No matter what is introduced into the media ecosystem, the oldest of the Big Media survives. Despite decades of doomsayers, newspapers prospered through radio, through TV and cable, through video games, through the Internet.... Not so fast. Suddenly, even sober Wall Street analysts think something new is afoot. What looms now "is different from all other threats," says...

How many of us, when reading the morning newspaper, have to think about the accuracy of the news printed in it? Not in passing but really think about it. Now India's largest publishing group, Bennett, Coleman & Co. has its readers doing just that by launching a new category called "edvotorial." Or simply put – paid news. Last year the group launched a business division called Medianet. It...

Internet service providers have urged the government to de-license spectrum in order to popularise WiMax services. WiMax (Worldwide Inter-operability of Microwave Access) is a standards-based wireless technology that provides high-throughput broadband connections over long distances, with typical cell sizes of two to ten kilo meters. "Since most of the WiMax developments are being done in the 2.3...

CHICAGO (AP) – A federal appeals court dismissed a lawsuit filed by former collegiate journalists who said their First Amendment rights were violated when the dean of student affairs insisted on reviewing the paper before publication. In a 7-4 decision June 20, the 7th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals said Patricia Carter, Governors State University's dean of student affairs, should not be liable for...

SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) – A newspaper investigation of a former columnist for The Sacramento Bee could not verify 43 sources she used in a sampling of 12 years of her work. Diana Griego Erwin resigned May 11 as she came under scrutiny about the existence of people she quoted. She has denied making up information, but Executive Editor Rick Rodriguez said the Bee should have been able to locate the...

The US government wants to keep ICANN on a tight leash. After all, it paid for a lot of the research and development of the Internet. It undoubtedly feels generous in creating ICANN in the place, rather than just letting the Departments of Defense or Commerce run the Internet. ICANN will never please all of the people all of the time. Quite the opposite. It would displease all of the people, if it...