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Infosys BPO (formerly Progeon) and media company TV18 have entered into a strategic alliance to launch Source18, a media process outsourcing company that will offer a range of services to media and entertainment companies globally. Among its first few clients is National Geographic International (NGCI). The new firm will re-purpose current as well as archival content for the mobile platform. This...

As opposed to parachute or embedded journalism where there is the solace of jetting out or the sinking into the confines of a green zone, the Kashmiri journalists as inhabitants of the region have to work not only as scribes but also live as the daily victims of the conflict. In a recent incident unidentified gunmen in civvies (probably belonging to the Special Operation group of the security...

Kolkata, April 12: Wage boards for journalists and non-journalist employees are likely to be constituted within this month, Union Labour Minister Oscar Fernandes said here today. "I am trying to constitute the wage boards very soon," Fernandes told newspersons here. Asked whether the wage boards would be constituted within this month, he answered in the affirmative. The government had on December...

Now, here’s the bad news — the Indian print media too has begun seeing a decline in readership as has been happening in many Western countries. Most of the top-rung newspapers and magazines have lost out on readers, according to the Indian Readership Survey (IRS) 2007 Round 1. 'Dainik Jagran' continues to be number one among all publications in the country despite a 6 per cent drop in readership...

The Indian media and entertainment (M&E) industry is expected to grow at an 18 per cent compound annual growth rate (CAGR) to reach an overall value of Rs 1 trillion by 2011 from its present size of Rs 437 billion, according to a report published by PricewaterhouseCoopers (PWC) for the Federation of Indian Chambers of Commerce and Industry (FICCI). Growing demand coupled with technological...

Are you good in English grammar, spelling and editing? Well there may be a job waiting for you from a newspaper thousands of miles away in the U.S. After IT companies, Banking and finance companies, call centres, education, medical transcription and legal sectors, it is now the U.S. that is looking for outsourcing editing jobs to India and some other developing countries. “Sure, there have been...

Hindustan Times group Editorial Director Vir Sanghvi is joining the INX Media group that has planned a bouquet of news and entertainment channels in different languages. Sanghvi would be the chief executive of the new company and editorial head of the news channels, promoted by Indrani Mukerjea, the chairperson of the venture and the wife of former chief of STAR TV’s India operations Peter...

Over 1,000 news media personnel around the world have been killed trying to report the news in the past decade, with Iraq and Russia topping the list as the deadliest countries for the profession, according to a report released Tuesday. India stands sixth. The uncle (left) and father of Reuters journalist Waleed Khaled cry over his his body at Baghdad's Yarmouk hospital after he was shot in the...

The Internet is spreading across the country, and newspaper websites too seem to be making hay off it. The Web editions of Indian newspapers are now read even in smaller towns, and not just in the metros of the country. A recent study has found that their readership has also spread out to as many as 62 countries, in addition to India. Columnists are read by 42 per cent of the English newspaper...

The Andhra Pradesh government is now looking for scapegoats after its controversial gag media order came in for trenchant criticism from all quarters. YSR Reddy was quick to announce an “inquiry” into the incident by chief secretary J Harinarayana. Sources told the Indo-Asian News Service (IANS) that axe was likely to fall on a couple of officials in the general administration department by Monday...