When Norman Mailer, Dan Wolf and Ed Fancher founded the Village Voice in 1955, they probably envisioned their alternative publication as the voice of the people. Yeah, right. Nearly 50 years later, the American revolution in people -- ordinary citizens -- having their voices heard in the media is taking place in what big-city folk call the flyover zones, with hyperlocal online publications that...
The International Federation of Journalists condemns the termination of services of 362 permanent employees of the Hindustan Times in Delhi and supports the Hindustan Times Employees Union struggle for the withdrawal of the arbitrary and illegal dismissal order of 3 October 2004. The IFJ takes a dim view of the employer´s tactics in justifying the termination of services on grounds of change in...
Way back in the Stone Age of online journalism -- late 1996 -- I wrote an article for The New York Times on the Web (a section called CyberTimes) about the tough road to profitability for "e-zines" such as Word and HotWired. But before I listed links to outside sites, I had to include this important disclaimer: Following are links to the external Web sites mentioned in this article. These sites...
Hindustan Times has launched the online edition for its Delhi edition. While currently the beta version of the site has been launched, the official launch will happen only on October 15. Sanjay Trehan, chief of Internet, HT Media Ltd, says, "The online edition is more than just scanning the newspaper and uploading it. We have a host of interactive features on the HT e-paper." The e-paper has...
Dainik Jagran continues to be the leading daily in the Delhi urban environ - commonly known as the NCR market, which includes Gurgaon, Faridabad, Ghaziabad and Noida, with a readership of 3.52 lakhs, as per the IRS round 2, 2003-04 reports. The publication has grown by 4 per cent in this market from 3.38 lakh readers in the last round of IRS. While The Times Of India continues to be the second...
The K.K. Birla-promoted Hindustan Times has terminated the services of 362 printing press workers. The workers, who were given the marching orders on October 3, have moved the Delhi High Court against the decision. Hindustan Times has paid a compensation of nearly Rs 7 crore to these workers, according to a company official. The workers had been resisting their transfer from Hindustan Times Ltd to...
Maharashtra-based Lokmat Group of Newspapers has found an interesting way of extending reach - via an e-paper. The group has launched an electronic edition of Lokmat, Nagpur and is in the process of uploading other editions on the web - including those of sister publications Lokmat Samachar (Hindi paper) and Lokmat Times (English paper) as well. What sets an e-paper apart from regular websites is...
Senior producer Michael Mosettig is running through his lineup for tonight's "The NewsHour with Jim Lehrer" when a colleague darts into his office and exclaims, "They've just beheaded a hostage." Mosettig doesn't lunge for the phone to deploy reporters or scramble crews for sensational reaction shots. Instead, he thinks a moment and then asks, "What can we say about that?" Five hours later...
RSF has condemned a threat to the privacy of Internet cafe users in Karnataka state, southern India, where the governor is poised to pass new regulations forcing Internet cafes to provide police with a register of their clients' names and addresses. Similar measures are being studied in Maharashtra state. "Rules that are about to be adopted in Karnataka and Maharashtra states do not observe...
The Committee to Protect Journalists condemns Saturday's attack on photographers Rafiq Maqbool of The Associated Press, and Amin War of the national newspaper The Tribune, who were beaten by police while covering a violent demonstration in Srinagar, the summer capital of war-torn Kashmir. Maqbool and War were photographing as many as 100 activists from the militant separatist group, the Democratic...
