"Is Yahoo! a threat to the business model of traditional news organizations? Yeah!" Quoted on the Wall Street Journal, Paul Grabowicz, director of the New Media program at the University of California, Berkeley Graduate School of Journalism may not be exaggerating. Over the past six months, Yahoo! News has topped every online news site in unique visitor traffic. Agreements with approximately 100...
Tehelka, the weekly English newspaper well-known for its hard investigative stories, now has a print-run of one lakh copies. The newspaper, which was launched on January 31, 2004, has a current circulation of 95,000. Total circulation is expected to touch 1.5 lakhs by September 2005. According to a Tehelka release, out of the print-run of one lakh copies, around 17,000 are advance paid subscribers...
The Kashmir Times Delhi Bureau Chief Iftikhar Gilani's recently released book 'My Days in Prison' (Penguin, Rs 195) reveals a shocking story of trial, temerity and triumph and exposes fancies of bureaucracy, politicians, police and intelligence agencies bent to make democracy and liberty hostage to their whims. With abundant pathos and black humour, Gilani has used his skills as a journalist to...
Today sees the next stage in the evolution of The Independent, Britain's original quality compact newspaper. Readers will notice a number of changes to this morning's paper, not the least of which is its design, which has been given a fresh, modern look. Today sees the next stage in the evolution of The Independent, Britain's original quality compact newspaper. Readers will notice a number of...
Most Americans believe bloggers should not be allowed to publish sensitive personal information about individuals, according to a new survey. Web hosting company Hostway this week released the results of its poll of 2,500 Americans on blogging. Eighty percent of respondents did not believe that bloggers should be allowed to publish home addresses and other personal information about private...
Millions of hours of radio, TV and film records will be available online for free download after the BBC announced the launch of its Creative Archive License scheme. "The Creative Archive License provides a unique solution to one of the key challenges of rights in the digital age, allowing us to increase the public value of our archives by giving people the chance to use video and audio material...
Media mogul Rupert Murdoch urged newspaper editors to grab on to the digital revolution, stop fearing or ignoring the power of the Web, and do more to serve the young news consumers -- or "digital natives," as he called them -- who are more and more going to the Internet for information. "We need to realize that the next generation of people have a different set of expectations of the kind of news...
WASHINGTON – The number of full-time journalists working at daily newspapers continues to fall while the number of minority journalists inched up nearly a half of a percentage point to 13.42 percent in 2004. Since the economic downturn of 2001, newsrooms have lost a net of more than 2,200 journalists while the number of minority journalists has increased. These are among the key findings from the...
Most freelance writers wait in dread for The Call -- their equivalent of the "Dear John" letter from an editor who is calling (or sometimes e-mailing) to say they're no longer needed. A number of years ago, The Call came to me from my editor at CNET, but with a twist. They were killing my humor column because it didn't get enough page views. I even got a rundown of the numbers, though they were...
Former Haryana Chief Minister’s men let lose a reign of terror around his farmhouse amidst reports of the CBI raid there and even bashed up the cameraman of a private TV channel. The raid was conducted in connection with the JBT teachers recruitment scam. When The Tribune team reached Mr Chautala’s farmhouse on Thursday his men were standing at one gate amidst eerie silence, while the other...
