Last week, the Mumbai-based Chitralekha group won "The Media Marketer of the Year" Award (for the year 2001) at the EMVIE Awards 2002. The award was for best media marketing across all media, and all over the country. Among the others nominated for the award were the television channel, MTV, and the newspaper group, Dainik Bhaskar. The award was based on the major media marketing innovations that...
In a letter sent to the Indian Minister of External Affairs, Jaswant Singh, Reporters sans frontières (Reporters Without Borders - RSF) asked for the real reasons for the arrest of Burmese journalist Soe Myint, managing editor of the Mizzima press agency. "We are justified in asking whether the arrest of this journalist, reputed for his reporting on human rights violations in Burma, has a direct...
In a letter to Vishnu Kant Shastri, governor of the Indian State of Uttar Pradesh, RSF expressed indignation over the murder of Paritosh Pandey, a crime reporter for the Hindi-language local daily "Jansatta Express", in Lucknow (northern India). "If this crime goes unpunished, the entire profession will feel at risk. According to his family and colleagues, this cowardly assassination could be...
In a letter to the interior minister of the state of Gujarat, Gordhan Zadaphia, RSF denounced the attack on some twenty journalists by police of Gujarat State in western India. "After accusing the media of exaggerating the extent of the recent wave of inter-community violence in the state of Gujarat, the authorities of this state used the most reprehensible behavior to prevent journalists from...
Media group The Hindustan Times Ltd and Sify.com, the consumer portal of Satyam Infoway Ltd, have entered a cross-promotion deal. This tie-up will enable both Sify.com as well as the Hindustan Times and its site Hindustantimes.com to leverage each other's resources to gain more visibility. Not only this, the two companies will pitch for advertisers with offers of a wider reach and offer better...
Sharon Peters is a recidivist editor. She devoted half a career to helping run newsrooms, then sidestepped into consulting. Now, after eight years, she has relapsed and resumed the newspaper life, much smarter, she hopes, for being gone awhile. Peters believes she learned a lot about editing during her time away, and she plans to act on those lessons now that she has a second chance, born again...
Ron Recinto had been toiling at daily newspapers for more than 10 years when an old friend called him up to lure him away from the world of crackling police scanners, city budgets and agate type. It was September 2000, the tail end of the Internet boom, and Recinto, now 36, was an editor at the State in Columbia, South Carolina. He loved his job, he cherished newspapers and he had no plans to...
On a muggy day in mid-April 1997, Houston police discovered Doris Angleton's bullet-riddled body inside her two-story, red-brick Tudor home. She lay in an upstairs hallway in a pool of blood, shot 12 times in the head and chest. The homicide would reverberate through the higher echelons of Houston's old-money society. But the effects of Angleton's death would be felt beyond the gilded confines of...
Few aspects of journalism are as groundlessly romanticized. The apocryphal "wall" between newsrooms and advertising departments is often referred to without a hint of self-consciousness as the separation between church and state. Indeed, despite ample evidence to the contrary, it's an undeniable part of the journalism culture to view the newsroom as an oasis separate from the messy details of...
As part of the publications' plans to consolidate its position in eastern India, The Statesman is planning to launch its edition in Orissa very soon. Currently, the 126-year-old newspaper is available in Delhi, Kolkata and Siliguri. Though the date for the Orissa launch has not been decided yet, it should hit the newsstands in the state in the next two to three months. While the editorial mix of...
