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Believe it or not, women are still fighting to get their opinions in print and on the air–and editors are still making lame excuses. In March, FOX News’ Susan Estrich scolded the Los Angeles Times, where less than 20 percent of opinion-editorial columns in a nine-week period were written by women, by firing off a series of emails to op-ed page editor Michael Kinsley. He responded by saying that...

In India, a flourishing business for print media doesn't translate to flourishing media criticism. As of March 2003, the Registrar of Newspapers for India reported there were 55,780 newspapers in the subcontinent, with 3,820 new newspapers registered in the previous year and 23 percent growth in overall circulation. And the Times of India, owned by the Bennett, Coleman & Co. Ltd., is the king of...

"We're in the midst of a long and painful transition," worries Colby Atwood, vice president of the media research company Borrell Associates Inc., commenting on the fact that major American newspapers now have bigger online readerships than their print editions. Katharine Q. Seelye writes in The New York Times that what publishers regret the most about the switch to digital news, apart from its...

Hindi dailies Dainik Jagran and Dainik Bhaskar have retained the top two slots among the urban and rural markets in India as per the IRS 2005 Round 1 reports. Dainik Jagran had the maximum growth at 6.03 per cent with an addition of 10.71 lakh readers. In terms of absolute numbers, Dainik Jagran's readership now stands at 1.75 crores. The number two publication Dainik Bhaskar grew by 2.89 per cent...

The Indian Express Senior Reporter Stavan Desai has won the PoleStar Award 2004 in the Best Breaking News category for his exclusive report, ‘Three Years Later, When Cellphones ring: Who Spoke to Whom When Gujarat was Burning.’ Desai, 27, investigated over 5 lakh entries of cellphone calls in two compact discs to write one of the most chilling post-riot stories in Gujarat. The two CDs, which have...

Indian broadcaster SAB said on Monday it would sell its TV channel and related assets to Sony Entertainment Television Satellite (Singapore) for $13 million, and focus on its core production facilities. Sri Adhikari Brothers Television Ltd. (SAB) will use the proceeds to upgrade studios and production and post-production facilities and set up an animation division. "There is fierce competition in...

Which website best symbolizes the state of online journalism today? Is it CNN.com, the cyber offshoot of the cable news powerhouse? Or is it Wonkette.com, the dishy, irreverent blog about Washington politics edited by Ana Marie Cox? According to a report released yesterday by the Washington-based Project for Excellence in Journalism, the answer isn't clear. While mainstream media companies capture...

The age-old tension of free vs. paid-for content online is up for questioning again, as The New York Times explores the profitability of print newspapers who offer free online content. The main source of Web editions' revenues come from online advertising, which news publishers fear will decline if they begin to charge access fees. Newspaper publishers with a Web presence also fear that mandated...

What we take for granted today, satellite television or cellular telephone or even a humble Walkman, were part of sci-fi a mere quarter of a century ago. Even as we debate a new convergence policy in India and wonder whether we need a content regulator or talk about new spectrum allocation, the viability or desirability of direct-to-home television and broadband, a socio-economic revolution is...

IRS 2005 R1 numbers are here and in publications that have reasons to celebrate, Dainik Jagran is right on top. A look at the top twenty publications shows that while players like Malayala Manorama have dropped places due to readership dip, print giant Times of India too shows a fall this round. Sheer readership growth puts Jagran again on top where the publication registers the highest growth...