Hindi daily Rajasthan Patrika has soft-launched a new edition in the district of Banswara in the south of Rajasthan. A formal launch is expected in the next few months, says Amitabh Sharma, senior manager â" marketing, Rajasthan Patrika. The soft launch is tied in with the group's efforts to test the market in and around the region, and the current edition comprises 16 pages to begin with. The...
A study commissioned by BBC World and conducted by PQR and IMRB International, has classified Indian news viewers into six broad categories. These are astute, self acclaimed intellectual, evolved, generalist, minimalists and detached. There is also a small population of Indians who get their news only from newspapers. According to the survey, the minimalists, with a low interest in news, form 32...
Monopolies might be bad for consumers, but for Web designers, the dominance of Microsoft's Internet Explorer browser made their lives easier to some extent. When it came to testing site content for the various browsers of the past -- Netscape, AOL, et al -- the pre-eminence of IE meant that designing and testing was simplified. Now along comes the exploding growth of the open-source Firefox...
A woman who founded an Afghan weekly focusing on women’s issues has been named "International Editor of the Year" by the US based publication Worldpress.org. Shukria Barekzai received the award, given to one editor outside of the US each year, as the editor-in-chief of Aina-e Zan, or "Women’s Mirror." Barekzai was honored for her courage, dedication to press freedon, and efforts to improve women’s...
Ananda Bazar Patrika-controlled STAR News is set to launch a Bengali news channel in February 2005. The channel, in all likeliness, will not be called STAR Khabar. It will be the first 24-hour national news channel in Bengali. The development has been confirmed by senior executives at the ABP group. The channel will be 'national' both in terms of programming and distribution. "The programming will...
The Australian libel lawsuit that sent shockwaves around the Internet world two years ago was settled last week. The defendant, Dow Jones Co., got off relatively easily, to hear a defiant editorial in Barron?s tell it. The company forked over just $150,000 to cover a "fraction" of the plaintiff?s legal costs, while "paying no damages and offering no apologies." But as the editorial acknowledged...
The International Federation of Journalists (IFJ), the global organisation representing over 500,000 journalists worldwide, today condemned the attack on a freelance journalist in India. "Attacks on journalists for their truth telling represents a curtailment of press freedom that must be resisted," said IFJ President Christopher Warren. According information received by the IFJ, Shubhranshu...
This is another story of David defeating Goliath, except that David won the fight without even knowing it. At the recent Online Journalism Awards banquet in Hollywood, the finalists for General Excellence (Small Sites) included the Center for Public Integrity, Congressional Quarterly's CQ.com, PBS' Frontline World, PBS' POV, and the VenturaCountyStar.com. While the latter site is indeed owned by...
Yahoo confirmed Friday that it has hired newspaper veteran Neil Budde to run its news operations. Budde, who will begin his position at Yahoo on Nov. 15, was the founding editor and publisher of The Wall Street Journal Online edition. Budde ran the majority of the operations for WSJ.com and was behind the decision to turn it into a subscription-only site. Yahoo spokeswoman Joanna Stevens declined...
The battered body of a local newspaper editor from the eastern state of Orissa was found by the side of a highway near the village of Bhagirathipur on Tuesday, November 9, police sources told the Press Trust of India (PTI), a national newswire service. Dilip Mohapatra, editor of the Oriya-language newspaper Aji Kagoj, disappeared on Monday, November 8. His body was discovered the next day on the...
