International

The newsroom at Al-Jazeera International on K Street is newer than most — everything is digital — but producers and editors monitor events around the globe via computer just as they do at CNN, NBC, ABC and CBS. Competitors, however, “are owned by conglomerates that determine what they do and don’t do,” while AJI is bankrolled by the emir of Qatar, says producer Sol Levine, who once ran CNN’s...

Al-Jazeera, the Arab news network the Bush administration says is a tool of al-Qaeda, will launch Wednesday its English version, which will be available in 70 million households worldwide. Al-Jazeera International will broadcast from Doha, Qatar, and from bureaus in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia; London; and Washington, D.C. Cable and satellite distribution deals are expected to be announced today...

Reuters has launched a new round of cost cutting, this time with travel and expenses in the spotlight. The chief executive, Tom Glocer, has imposed 30% cuts to travel and entertainment budgets on the global news organisation’s 15,300 staff. The news was delivered to staff in an intranet posting in which Mr Glocer said that “tough measures” were needed to achieve “greatness”. He also said that the...

The variety of perspectives offered by the online international news environment is limited. It offers little real information diversity, a situation sharply at odds with a decade and a half of fervour for the democratising potential of new media, a study by the University of Ulster's Centre for Media Research has concluded. Online news websites have improved access to international news but since...

It is a newspaper with a circulation of only 20,000 copies, and having online and cable television operations, in the middle of a cornfield in the state of Kansas in the US, which provides a classic case study for newspaper publishers incorporating elements of the practical convergence philosophy into their operations. SAME WORK: Radio journalist Lars Kryger in Ringkjøbing, right, records a radio...

The concept of the free commuter newspaper which dawned at the turn of the millennium is alive and well — and growing worldwide. Yet the concept has grown beyond its original point of distribution, beyond its original business model, and even beyond its content model, says a new report by the International Newspaper Marketing Association (INMA). The INMA report, Free and 'Lite' Newspapers: The...

The Correio Braziliense, published from Sau Paulo in Brazil, regularly conducts promotion programmes aimed at encouraging people to try the newspaper. These campaigns are conducted in parts of the city with a high foot-traffic. Last year, the daily carried out the Sampling Kit campaign with the objective to increase the number of people sampling the newspaper each month without increasing...

Internal reorganisation, research and new technologies are the most important factors that need to be tackled to meet future demands of the newspaper industry, according to a just released report by Ifra, the world's leading association for newspaper and media publishing. Two-third of the newspaper industry respondents interviewed by Ifra felt so. WHERE NEWS: These findings have been reported in...

When the Dainik Bhaskar launched its Writers for Readers promotion in 2005, the objective was to establish superiority of the newspaper based on its editorial content by renowned writers across subjects. The promotion ran in Dainik Bhaskar during 2005 and 2006 as in-newspaper advertising. CONTENTMENT: The ideas selected for the New Ideas To Engage Newspaper Readers and Promote Editoral Content...

More than two-thirds of the newspaper companies worldwide expect to remain a predominantly newspaper publisher in the near future, according to a just released report by Ifra, the world's leading association for newspaper and media publishing. HERE AND NOW: The three-year "Where News?" project is being funded with more than a million Euro, signalling how serious the association's more than 3000...