Magazine World

Well known Tamil magazine group Kumudam is to be split into two. N Ram, Editor-in-Chief of The Hindu, who acted as a mediator to settle the dispute over the management of the publication group between Dr A Jawahar Palaniappan and its Managing Director P Varadarajan, said the two sides have reached an "amicable settlement." The separation process would now go ahead on the basis of independent...

Following are the top ten language magazines in India, according to the Indian Readership Survey (IRS) 2010 Quarter 1 released recently by the Media Research Users Council (MRUC). The survey was conducted by Hansa Research. Note: These are all readership figures (in lakhs) and not circulation numbers. TOP 10 LANGUAGE MAGAZINES Rank Magazine IRS 2009 R2 IRS 2010 Q1 1 Vanitha - Malayalam...

Following are the top ten Hindi magazines in India, according to the Indian Readership Survey (IRS) 2010 Quarter 1 released recently by the Media Research Users Council (MRUC). The survey was conducted by Hansa Research. Note: These are all readership figures (in lakhs) and not circulation numbers. TOP 10 HINDI MAGAZINES Rank Magazine IRS 2009 R2 IRS 2010 Q1 1 Saras Salil (Fortnightly) 21.67 22.09...

Following are the top ten English magazines in India, according to the Indian Readership Survey (IRS) 2010 Quarter 1 released recently by the Media Research Users Council (MRUC). The survey was conducted by Hansa Research. Note: These are all readership figures (in lakhs) and not circulation numbers. TOP 10 ENGLISH MAGAZINES Rank Magazine IRS 2009 R2 IRS 2010 Q1 1 India Today (Weekly) 18.78 17.88...

Following are the top ten magazines in India, according to the Indian Readership Survey (IRS) 2010 Quarter 1 released recently by the Media Research Users Council (MRUC). The survey was conducted by Hansa Research. Note: These are all readership figures (in lakhs) and not circulation numbers. TOP 10 MAGAZINES Rank Magazine IRS 2009 R2 IRS 2010 Q1 1 Vanitha (Malayalam) (Fortnightly) 29.0 30.35 2...

French film magazine Cahiers du Cinéma, which helped launch the 1950s New Wave, has been sold by Le Monde to international arts publishing house Phaidon Press. Founded in 1951 by André Bazin, Jacques Doniol-Valcroze and Joseph-Marie Lo Duca and edited by Eric Rohmer, Cahiers du Cinéma was a crucible for writers-turned-New Wave directors like François Truffaut and Jean-Luc Godard, and a vocal...

Newsstand and retail sales of US magazines fell 11 per cent in the second half of 2008, with celebrity and women's titles taking a hit as supermarket and drugstore shoppers cut back on their spending. "Single-copy" sales of magazines in figures released by the US Audit Bureau of Circulations on Monday performed worse than paid subscriptions, which were up less than 1 per cent. Total paid and...

The Union government has issued guidelines for foreign news and current affairs magazines publishing Indian editions, requiring them to have Indians in all key editorial and executive positions. The Ministry of Information and Broadcasting has also mandated that 75 per cent of the boards of directors of the publishing companies should be resident Indians. The magazines have been allowed to...

Following are the top ten monthlies in India, according to the Indian Readership Survey (IRS) 2008 Round 2 released recently by the Media Research Users Council (MRUC). Note: These are all readership figures (in lakhs) and not circulation numbers. TOP 10 MONTHLIES Rank Publication Language IRS 2007 ROUND 2 IRS 2008 ROUND 2 1 Meri Saheli Hindi 62.42 54.48 2 Cricket Samrat Hindi 51.04 47.93 3...

Following are the top ten fortnightlies in India, according to the Indian Readership Survey (IRS) 2008 Round 2 released recently by the Media Research Users Council (MRUC). Note: These are all readership figures (in lakhs) and not circulation numbers. TOP 10 FORTNIGHTLIES Rank Publication Language IRS 2007 ROUND 2 IRS 2008 ROUND 2 1 Saras Salil Hindi 106.36 84.61 2 Vanitha Malayalam 62.92 57.35 3...