Indian politicians and software executives have accused Britain of waging a low-intensity trade war by exaggerating the threat of security breaches in the country's fast-growing call centre industry. The US$5.2 billion (S$9 billion) industry is reeling from allegations that an IT employee in Delhi sold confidential data involving 1,000 UK banking customers. The scandal, prompted by a news story in...
A little more than half the world's consumer magazines said their Web sites are profitable, up from about a quarter two years ago, according to the results of a small survey released on Tuesday by a trade group. Another 17 percent said they were losing money, down from 38 percent in 2003, the magazine publishing group International Federation of the Periodical Press reported. The study comes at a...
Reader’s Digest (RD), which has a 50-year heritage in India and is one of the best-read English magazines in the country, has strongly reconnected with its readers. The fruits of the quest, which began a few years ago, gave results when RD was recently adjudged the Best Marketer of the Year at Emvies 2005, sharing the award with Sony Entertainment Television (Indian Idol). Stating the reasons on...
The Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (TRAI) favours 100 per cent foreign ownership in satellite radio services and is against imposing any entry fee unless there is excess demand for available spectrum space. Should there be such a demand, the TRAI in its recommendations to the Government on issues relating to satellite radio services has suggested that tenders be floated as is the case with...
Mid Day, arguably, has drawn first blood in Battleground Mumbai; Bennett, Coleman & Co’s latest launch Mumbai Mirror being the first to experience how hard it is to get reader attention. But industry experts assure us that the Old Lady of Boribunder needn't lose much sleep over the impending invasion by Hindustan Times and DNA. Here's why. Old habits die hard For the 16.64 lakh (IRS 2005) readers...
NEW YORK – It's been more than 30 years since Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein broke the Watergate scandal that brought down an American president. Many media analysts say a story like Watergate, in which the two enterprising Washington Post reports relied on "Deep Throat" as an essential source, likely couldn't be broken in the same way nowadays because many news outlets have reined in the use of...
LONDON The BBC is doubling its investment in journalism training from £5m to £10m by 2008 after a report into its editorial systems supported the Hutton Report's claim that they were defective. The Robert Neil report, chaired by former BBC director of news and current affairs Robert Neil, recommended the BBC double spend on journalism training following Lord Hutton's assertion that its editorial...
The Indian market is "the new theater of strategic investment," the chief executive of Independent News & Media, Tony O'Reilly, declared last month after the Indian government had approved his bid to buy a stake in one of the nation's leading newspaper groups. His company, the owner of the British newspapers The Independent and Independent on Sunday and of The Belfast Telegraph, paid $34 million...
Ten minutes before the hour at the CNBC newsroom in Delhi, and the presenters are preparing themselves to go live. News readers with glossy, blow-dried hair trip across the marble floors in kitten heels; executives wearing expensive jeans pace the office, shouting instructions to rows of minions sitting on lurid purple chairs, silently monitoring developments on their screens. Away from the action...
Indian journalists will have the chance to talk with Sreenath Sreenivasan, a dean and professor at Columbia University’s prestigious Graduate School of Journalism, on June 29. The Chennai Press Club is hosting the 4 p.m. discussion, organized by the Prime Point Foundation. The session is open to journalists, students, faculty, or anyone else interested in journalism and communication. Sreenivasan...
