Publications company Cyber Media (India) Ltd (CML) has mortgaged the brand name of the yet-to-be-launched magazine -- Business Week India -- with public sector State Bank of Mysore (SBM). The company has procured a long-term loan and working capital facility by mortgaging the brand name. It has also mortgaged the brand name of its flagship magazine DataQuest with a negative lien on all other...
Nearly 150 local TV stations launched on Monday a network of websites that will compete for national advertisers with the news sections of the Internet portal giants. The aggregated online advertising network, called the Local Media Network, includes major market stations WABC in New York, KABC in Los Angeles and WLS in Chicago, all owned by the ABC network, as well as websites from other...
Rivals may be closing in on her, but the grand Old Lady of Boribunder is in no mood to let any claimant having a go at her throne. In the face of impending competition from adversaries looking to launch English newspapers in Mumbai, Bennett, Coleman & Co (BCCL), publishers of The Times of India, is busy strengthening the content of its best-selling product. The beefing up, in fact, is starting...
Jagran TV Private Limited, the company that runs the news channel called Channel 7, will offload 25.7 per cent stake in it to the Mauritius-based investor New Vernon Bharat Ltd. The news broadcaster, which is the broadcasting arm of the Kanpur-based Jagran Prakashan, is expected to raise Rs 30 crore from the deal. This puts the total valuation of Jagran TV, which started its operations only about...
A lady reporter and a cameraperson of NDTV were on Thursday assaulted allegedly by some police personnel in Noida, on the outskirts of Delhi while they were pursuing a story relating to CBI case against new state Chief Secretary Neera Yadav. The police personnel even confiscated their tripod and headphone and nearly seized their camera before the team comprising reporter Sunetra Chaudhary and...
Lok Sabha Speaker Somnath Chatterjee said on Thursday that Parliament could not dictate terms to media. "It is entirely for the media to decide which news it will publish or broadcast. They are as much a relevant part of the democratic system and we cannot dictate them," the Speaker observed, when some members drew his attention to "inadequate coverage" of parliamentary proceedings. Somnath said...
Amid the din around the impending launch of three English dailies in Mumbai, the city’s second-most read general interest newspaper Mid Day is quietly gearing up for battle royale. Mid Day, in recent times, has seen an increase of about 22 per cent in circulation, primarily on the back of entertainment, city-centric, some amount of national/international, and sports news. The mix is doing so well...
From 1939-1945 The New York Times, arguably the country's most influential paper, barely covered the extermination of millions of Jews. There was plenty of coverage of World War II, but news of the Holocaust did not get the press attention that could have steered public discourse and ultimately saved lives. Laurel Leff, author of Buried By The Times: The Holocaust and America's Most Important...
An Indian association of women journalists will work with Internews Network to offer training, roundtables and trips aimed at improving coverage of HIV and AIDS. Internews said it will collaborate for the next six months with the Indian Women’s Press Corps (IWPC) on a project to improve HIV/AIDS reporting among women journalists. The Kaiser Family Foundation’s Project for International Health...
Making a mockery of Press freedom,a police officer on Tuesday assaulted and injured ETV's Phulbani correspondent, Sadashiv Patra and also damaged his camera.The officer,who happens to be the assistant sub-inspector (ASI) of Phiringia police station,allegedly also assaulted two other persons having their meal in a dhaba. Sources said ETV correspondent had to bear the brunt of the ASI's ire when he...
