The Appan Menon Memorial Trust is inviting applications. The Trust proposes to award a grant of Rs 1 lakh every year to professional journalists working in the area of World Affairs or Development news with an Indian perspective. Journalists from any media with 3-5 years experience can apply by submitting the following. A brief proposal (1000 words) stating in brief the area, issues and your...
An economist and a newspaper editor are among those to have been chosen by different political groupings in West Bengal as candidates for the Rajya Sabha elections for which are to be held on July 14. Also in the field are three Polit Bureau members of the Communist Party of India (Marxist), Sitaram Yechury, Brinda Karat and Chittabrata Majumdar. The ruling Left Front has decided to support...
Ketan N. Gandhi has been named president and publisher of the Home News Tribune. Gandhi, 42, had been vice president of finance for the Asbury Park Press and the Home News Tribune since 1997, when Gannett acquired the two newspapers. He simultaneously served as controller of Gannett's Atlantic Coast Newspaper Group. Previously, Gandhi had worked as an accounting manager at the Valley News Dispatch...
The International Federation of Journalists today accused Time-Warner, one of the world’s largest media corporations of a "profound betrayal" of principle over its decision to publicly defy its reporter’s wishes and hand over his notebook to avoid heavy fines in a court action over protection of sources. Matthew Cooper, a reporter for Time magazine was ready to go to jail for refusing to name a...
Regulatory fee outflow to decline 50%. In a decision that comes as sweet music to private FM radio companies, the government today allowed 20 per cent foreign direct investment in the sector and ushered in a revenue share regime of 4 per cent a year to replace licence fees. However, the Cabinet, which met in New Delhi to thrash out the policy for the second phase of FM radio licensing, decided to...
PK Iyer, executive director, Deccan Chronicle Holdings claims that Deccan Chronicle has reached the circulation figure of 2 lakhs. "We have raised our print run to 2-lakh since yesterday. With this, we have almost achieved a 50 per cent market share in Chennai," he declares. The Hindu, the number one English daily of this region has a circulation of 2,67,000 in Chennai (as per ABC, July to...
Lintas India Group director Lynn De Souza kicked it off. In a recent magazine article, she said that TAM Media Research data represent just 38 per cent of India's television viewing homes. De Souza later reiterated her point to Business Standard: "The sample is too small as 5,000 Peoplemeters is too little to extrapolate to 83 million TV homes." That statement turned the arc lights on the validity...
MediaGuardian.co.uk will be led by a new editor from Monday as the site gears up for increased competition from rival title Press Gazette. Steve Busfield has been with the Guardian since 1997, most recently as executive editor of Guardian Business. He previously worked on regional newspapers and also reported for Press Gazette in 1993. "MediaGuardian is one of the world's leading sources of media...
Mario Garcia, the first to put color on The Wall Street Journal's front page three years ago, will lead the redesign of the newly integrated print and online format for the newspaper’s international editions, Dow Jones & Co. announced Thursday. The editions will launch in October. Dow Jones said Garcia will head a team that will more closely integrate its print and online editions, promoting...
After decades of stagnation, the print media business in Mumbai is getting a serious makeover. Along with monsoon downpours, a slew of Indian and foreign publications are showering down on India's financial capital and the country's richest media market, with English news daily behemoth Times of India facing a messy turf war that could make for a nice Bollywood potboiler. In the shakeup, long...
