Indian Newspaper Scene

A journalist of a local daily was shot dead on Friday in Madhya Pradesh's Rewa town, the police said, according to a report in Hindustan Times. Deepak Mishra, who was working as the chief of bureau of a leading Hindi daily Dainik Bhaskar, which is published from Jabalpur, was going in a car with some unidentified people when gunshots were heard near Rewa bus stop. "It appears that Mishra had some...

The Indian Newspaper Society (INS) has asked its members to reduce use of newsprint by at least 20 per cent in their publications in order to meet the challenges of "extraordinary and uncalled for" rise in indigenous newsprint prices, the Press Trust of India (PTI) has reported. In an advisory to INS members, its President Bahubali Shah said the only way to curb the tendency towards cartelisation...

An associate of Kotak Mahindra Group has bought 27.76 per cent stake in publisher Business Standard Ltd that was held by Great Eastern Shipping Co Ltd, the publisher said at the weekend, according to Reuters. Infina Finance Pvt Ltd, an associate of Kotak Mahindra Group, which controls Kotak Mahindra Bank, which bought the holding did not disclose financial details. The Mint newspaper on Monday...

The first edition of Business Bhaskar, the Hindi financial daily from Dainik Bhaskar was launched in Bhopal on June 27, televisionpoint.com has reported. Business Bhaskar will have an initial print run of more than 20,000 copies and the broadsheet is 12 colour pages, priced at Rs 1.50. To expand the business of Business Bhaskar, the company proposes to launch at least three more editions in Tier...

The International Herald Tribune announced Tuesday a plan to expand its reach in a fast-growing market in a partnership with Deccan Chronicle Holdings, the publisher of a new business newspaper in India. The IHT, published by the New York Times Co, will create a branded business section in Deccan's Financial Chronicle. The section will be a version of the Business Asia with Reuters section, which...

(Reuters): When Conde Nast launched its premium lifestyle magazine Vogue in India last year, it carried a whopping 168 pages of advertisements of a total 400 pages. Now, the publisher is preparing to launch its luxury men’s magazine GQ and expects a similar rush of advertisers in Asia’s third-largest economy, where rising incomes and growing literacy are boosting readership and revenues of...

Pune-based Sakal Media Group on Wednesday launched its much-hyped English newspaper Sakaal Times with an initial print run of 1,00,000 copies. A 24-page daily, with almost 80 per cent content outsourced, Sakaal Times is divided into three sections and is with a cover price of Re 1, the Business Standard reported. Headed by the Union Agriculture Minister Sharad Pawar's nephew Abhijit Pawar, the...

Sakal Times, the English daily from the Sakal group, will be launched on May 7, Business Standard has reported. The first edition of the newspaper is being launched in Pune, the hometown of the Sakal group, which owns Maharashtra's number two Marathi daily, Sakal. It runs two English papers—The Maharashtra Herald in Pune and Gomantak Times in Goa. Some details: However, when it launches in Pune in...

The Confederation of Newspaper and New Agency Employees Organisations on Friday said it would seek the intervention of top leaders, including Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, the Press Trust of India (PTI) has reported. The confederation at its meeting Friday criticised the decision of wage board chairman Justice K Narayan Kurup to postpone the meeting and decided that it would seek the intervention...

ONE of India's leading newspapers launched an unusual advertising drive last month. “Money cannot buy our integrity” read a front-page slogan in Daily News & Analysis (DNA), a Mumbai daily. “Make the headlines tomorrow. By paying for it,” it added, in reference to some other papers' supposed tendency to give favourable coverage to firms that place advertisements. That charge is hard to prove. But...