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Everything makes a comeback. There is an eternal renaissance of essential things. In journalism, design, literature and art. Things tend to simplify themselves. As life in the big cities turns more chaotic, technology becomes more accessible with wireless, fast communication available to larger masses of the population. For the printed media, this translates into smaller formats, more reader...

Reuters has bought a stake in an English-language news channel being set up by the Times of India. The news service has bought 26% of the Times of India Global Broadcasting Company, a division of the Indian newspaper group that publishes the world's biggest daily broadsheet in circulation terms, with a readership of some 7.4 million. The English-language channel will go live this year, serving...

Losing ad revenue? Where are your advertisers going? More advertisers signing up? Why are they coming to you? Here's a brief view of current trends in advertising, trends which quite possibly will become permanent characteristics of the market. Large papers losing/local papers gaining: "It's not just that untargeted advertising looks old-fashioned. It's that there are increasingly viable, more...

You don't exactly fancy yourself to be the citizen journalist type. But there you were on Academy Awards night, out near the red carpet with your digital video camera in hand right as one of the celebs lost it and started beating up an unruly fan. Somehow, this scene was out of sight from the pros and you got the shot, crystal clear and brimming with epithets not suitable for prime time. So now...

The Federal Bureau of Investigation has released 20 pages of files on President George W. Bush to an activist blogger who sought the president’s records under a Freedom of Information Act request last summer, RAW STORY has learned. The release, which comprises two threats made against the President in 2001 and 2003, is scant. It includes letters from the U.S. Secret Service to the FBI forensic...

The Supreme Court has warned the media against reporting unwarranted criticism of the judges and the judiciary. It said that freedom enjoyed by the media was no licence to indulge in sensationalism and a mechanism should be devised to check the criticism from crossing the limits. A Bench, comprising Justice Y.K. Sabharwal and Justice Tarun Chatterjee, pointed out that "wild allegation that...

Will the last American newspaper lose its last reader before the middle of the century? Journalism professor Philip Meyer thinks it's possible. After all, the percentage of adults who report reading daily newspapers has fallen from 81 percent in 1964 to just 52 percent in 2004. If the trend continues, there won't be any readers left within a few decades, says Mr. Meyer, an author and former...

Surrogate advertisements on liquor and tobacco products will no more be aired on the television as the I&B Ministry plans to check direct/indirect promotion of harmful substances. In plain words, advertisements on Bagpiper soda, Kingfisher mineral water, McDowell soda, Bacardi Blast CDs and other products from the liquor stables will not be allowed on TV. In a circular dated April 12, the Ministry...

Associated with 'courage' and 'the naked truth', Tehelka has made a resounding comeback. In 2001, the Tehelka news portal was put out of business for exposing corruption in high places in a sting operation on arms deals. Reborn almost three years later as a weekly newspaper, Tehelka has made a mark on the strength of its investigative stories, reaching a print run of 100,000 within one year of its...

Sakal Papers have launched Agro Won, the first ever daily in India, devoted to Agriculture on 19th April 2005. Agro Won is 16 pages strong and is published in Marathi . Agro Won is printed in tabloid format. Agro Won was launched by Sharad Pawar, Union Minister for Agriculture, and noted agricultural expert N. D. Mahanor was the Chief Guest. Balasaheb Thorat, Maharashtra Minister for Agriculture...