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Which American newspaper greeted Hitler’s diplomatic victory at Munich with a recommendation that the world place its hopes in the Kellogg Briand Peace Pact? And when, in 1940, the great Jewish journalist and Zionist prophet Vladimir Jabotinsky gave his famous speech in New York calling for an emergency rescue to take the 6 million Jews of Europe to Palestine before they were killed, which...

The decline of our media system has been well documented. Every week seems to bring with it news about how the news is screwed up. Media concentration, commercial imperatives and a clear conservative tilt is tuning out and turning off viewers, readers and listeners. Journalists are under fire from every side of the partisan divide. You get the feeling that we are living in the last days of our...

Anyone interested in newspapers is probably aware that this is a tough time for a medium that has been a central feature of American history and democracy since the founding of our republic. Newspapers have thrived since those first few dozen were established in the colonies. Their successors have withstood the challenges of radio and television. But things are more complex now. The challenges are...

The Hull Daily Mail and twin title the East Riding Mail have unveiled a host of changes after conducting research into reader habits. The new approach, labelled the 'Newspaper for Now', aims to build on the Mail's current daily circulation of 71,000. It includes 'in short' boxes on all page leads, which readers can use to pick up the main points of the story. There is also a 'paper in a page' on...

Andaman and Nicobar Islands authorities are planning serious action against some journalists for entering reserve areas and taking photographs of the highly endangered aboriginal tribals without legal permits during news coverage of the tsunami tragedy. "At least two journalists of different national news channels had illegally entered the tribal reserve areas with cameras. The administration has...

If information and Broadcasting Minister Jaipal Reddy has his way, television censorship will pass into the hands of an independent Broadcast Regulatory Authority of India, minimising the Union Government’s role in scanning content. But any such regulation will come only after the programme has been beamed, as the Ministry does not believe in pre-broadcast censorship. That will mean the panel...

News Corporation - the Ruppert Murdoch empire from The Times of London to Fox News in the US - President Peter Chernin challenged fellow executives to face the media industry’s biggest problems through a forward-thinking speech entitled "10 rules for Media Survival" at the Forrester Consumer Forum last week. Chernin explained that networks and advertisers need to work together on new formats, and...

After a Dec. 26 earthquake generated a tsunami in the Indian Ocean, extensive news coverage spurred some $6 billion in donations to governments and relief agencies in less than a month. But lack of coverage can mean little money. Although millions of people in Africa continue to suffer from the scourges of war, disease and poverty, people elsewhere who might be inspired to open their wallets don’t...

There has been a sudden spurt in activities at the Bhaskar Group. After a strategic tie-up with ZEE Network and launching an activation company, the publication is all set to launch a special limited edition book ‘Noor-Nakihat Ki Dastan’ on Mughal-e-Azam. The book is scheduled to be launched by early March. Anil Dhupar, senior vice-president, Bhaskar Group, believes that a newspaper’s role is more...

It wasn’t long ago that bloggers and money had nothing to do with each other. But as the blogosphere exploded into the public consciousness over the past year – PubSub estimates there are more than 8 million Weblogs, or online journals – it was inevitable that the captains of commerce would latch onto this increasingly popular form of personal media.Blogging is growing up. For better, for worse...