October 2001–Last March, New York Times columnist Thomas Friedman gushed that Qatar's wildly popular 24-hour news satellite channel Al-Jazeera [ www.al-jazeera.net] is "not only the biggest media phenomenon to hit the Arab world since the advent of television, it also is the biggest political phenomenon." Commentators continued to heap praise on the Arabic-language news channel, which has managed...
On September 1, miNews, the news-by-mobile service of Mid-Day Multimedia on BPL Mobile phones, became pay. It is just the first step towards the new sources of revenue the company is looking at. One very lucrative source of revenue could be advertising, and according to industry sources, Mid-Day is already in talks with major companies for advertising on miNews. Mid-Day Multimedia has the first...
So startups are going belly-up. That doesn’t mean that online content is dead. Far from it. Squarely here to stay are newspapers, nearly all of which have developed some online presence in recent years to expand their brand of newsgathering. We’ve talked to the online operations of six newspapers--some big, some small, from different areas of the country--to find out about what they’ve built in a...
(Continued from yesterday.) The IDC report had a few interesting comparisons. The break-up of time spent on various media showed that though 48.4 per cent of the respondents said watching TV was their favourite indoor activity, they ended up spending more time on the PC (18 hours per week) than on the TV (16 hours per week). Thus, on an average, among all classes, a little more than two hours were...
On 21 August 2001, an official from the Sikkim police's Criminal Investigation Section arrested Rajesh Bhattarai in Siliguri, West Bengal. Bhattarai is editor of "Aaja Bholi", a Nepali language daily published in Siliguri. According to the daily "Kantipur" (published in Nepal), police arrested Bhattarai on the charge of publishing a news report "which disturbs the communal harmonious relations of...
Yesterday's scheduled contempt of court case against journalist Vineet Narain has been postponed due to violence in Jammu and Kashmir State, the trial venue. It is not known when the next hearing will be held. Narain is the founding editor of the New Delhi-based investigative journal Kalchakra. He faces contempt charges based on a December 16, 2000, Kalchakra article in which Narain alleged that...
Yesterday's scheduled contempt of court case against journalist Vineet Narain has been postponed due to violence in Jammu and Kashmir State, the trial venue. It is not known when the next hearing will be held. Narain is the founding editor of the New DelhiÂ-based investigative journal Kalchakra. He faces contempt charges based on a December 16, 2000, Kalchakra article in which Narain alleged that...
The Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) is deeply concerned about the safety of journalist Vineet Narain, whose contempt of court trial has been abruptly moved up to August 9. It was originally scheduled for September 3. Narain is the founding editor of the New Delhi-based investigative journal Kalchakra. He faces contempt of court charges in Jammu and Kashmir State, based on a December 16...
Around this time last year, Star News at Nine, a half-hour English news bulletin produced by New Delhi Television (NDTV) was moved from Star Plus to Star World. It was a step towards lending a total Hindi feel to Star Plus, and a more local feel to its estranged cousin Star World. While the first channel has rewritten success in Indian television history, Star World, which was targeted at the...
