Indian Newspaper Scene

The problems confronting the small and medium newspapers with special focus on North East was deliberated upon at a seminar organised by the Indian Newspaper Society in Guwahati earlier this month. Initiated by Sunil Dang, Chairman, Small And Medium Newspapers Committee, the seminar turned out to be quite successful in identifying the difficulties and problems of member publications in the North...

Everyone loves to see changes at the top. And when these are based on statistics that reveal enough to arouse interest, it makes for a good read. The National Readership Survey (NRS) 2005 results, the second tranche of which has just been released, makes for such a good read. Consider the newspaper segment. In NRS 2003, the most widely read daily Dainik Bhaskar was ahead of its next placed rival...

NEW DELHI, August 8: It is an interchange of readership fortunes at the top level. Dainik Jagran and Dainik Bhaskar have swapped positions as dailies with the highest readership. Dainik Jagran registered an impressive 42 per cent growth — from 1,49,82,000 to 2,12,44,000 — over the figures for NRS 2003 to emerge as the most read daily in the country (taking into account both urban and rural markets...

Come May 1, Hindustan Times' Delhi edition will have a completely new look. While none of the HT executives were available for comments, industry sources informed that Hindustan Times will now have a new-look masthead for its Delhi edition. Other significant changes include overall design in each of the pages, inclusion of more pictures. Sources said, the newspaper's pages will now be more photo...

The Hindu in a new look hit the stands on Thursday. Design guru Dr. Mario Garcia has redesigned the daily. According to him it was a huge challenge because of The Hindu's history of 126 years. The process of re-designing was set in motion as early as 1994, and the current re-designing activity was started off eight months ago, N Murali, Joint Managing Director, The Hindu, told exchange4media. He...

For the second time in a row, the mighty Times of India's readership has declined. As per IRS Round 1, 2005, the newspaper's readership has marginally dropped by 0.66 per cent. Even in the IRS Round 2, 2004, its readership had declined by 1.89 per cent. That apart, the newspaper continues to maintain its leadership position among the Urban SEC A readers. In this category, the paper continues to be...

Hindi dailies Dainik Jagran and Dainik Bhaskar have retained the top two slots among the urban and rural markets in India as per the IRS 2005 Round 1 reports. Dainik Jagran had the maximum growth at 6.03 per cent with an addition of 10.71 lakh readers. In terms of absolute numbers, Dainik Jagran's readership now stands at 1.75 crores. The number two publication Dainik Bhaskar grew by 2.89 per cent...

A color management seminar is scheduled for September 16 in Bangalore, India, a day before the main conference of Ifra India 2003. Ifra, an international association for media publishing, has scheduled its 11th annual conference, Infra India 2003, on September 17 to 18 in Bangalore. The pre-conference seminar on Color Management Systems is aimed at providing a comprehensive view of the current...

Reporters Without Borders (Reporters Sans Frontières) welcomed the release today of Indian journalist Iftikhar Gilani but regretted that it came after seven months of detention without evidence and without trial. The organisation supported the request for compensation his lawyer plans to make to the government for the damage to his reputation as a journalist and his arbitrary detention. "This is a...

With a circulation of 16.5 lakh copies (according to ABC for the period of January to June 2002) and a readership of 1.3 crore as indicated by the latest round of the Indian Readership Survey, Dainik Bhaskar seems to be a comfortable leader. But resting on its laurels is not a trait one can associate with the Hindi daily that recently forayed into the eight state, namely Maharashtra, adding one...