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New Delhi, Oct 15 (IANS) The 'Great Indian Media War' is set to get hotter and bloodier, with two of the country's biggest players and visceral rivals joining hands to produce a common city-centric newspaper to ward off newer rivals threatening their decades-old dominance. Industry insiders have reacted to the "strange" alliance between The Times of India (TOI) group and The Hindustan Times (HT)...

ZAGREB, Croatia: The prime minister on Friday requested that the managing board of Croatia’s state-run news agency be dissolved — just months after it was appointed by his government — saying it had failed to consult employees when choosing a new director-general. Prime Minister Ivo Sanader said the four-member board of the HINA agency demonstrated a “great democratic deficit” because they made a...

Newspapers are all looking for ways to gain readers, and many have hired consultants to help them. In an unusual twist, The Los Angeles Times is looking to chart its future by using its own reporters and editors, who rank among the best investigators in the business. The Times is dedicating three investigative reporters and half a dozen editors to find ideas, at home and abroad, for re-engaging...

A journalism fellowship at Stanford University will keep a $1 million grant from Yahoo Inc. despite criticism of the company’s decision to turn over information on journalists to Chinese authorities. The Yahoo money given to the John S. Knight Fellowship is slated to bring one journalist to campus each year for the next decade from countries where the news media is restricted. Some former Knight...

NEW DELHI (Reuters) - HT Media Ltd. has signed an initial agreement for an equal joint venture with the Times of India Group to publish a tabloid-style newspaper in New Delhi, an HT official said on Tuesday. "It will be modelled on the Mumbai Mirror," chief financial officer Vinayak Purohit told Reuters, referring to the Times of India group's compact newspaper which competes with tabloid Mid-Day...

MOSCOW, October 2 (RIA Novosti) - The new editor Russia's Kommersant daily vowed on his first day at work Monday to maintain the daily's editorial policy under its new tycoon owner. Andrei Vasilyev, who was starting his second stint at the helm after a long run from 1999 to 2005, said Kommersant had no intention of following any imposed policy, and added that the edition would carry articles that...

CHICAGO (AdAge.com) -- Internet and cable were the growth locomotives behind the 6.6% increase in 2005 U.S. media revenue, reaching $268.48 billion for the 100 Leading Media Companies. In some ways, broadcast TV and newspaper executives must have seemed more like captives tied to the tracks. Time Warner Time Warner, powered by its internet and cable offerings, retained its position as the No. 1...

London, Oct 1 (IANS) The exponential growth of the Indian media has led to some hand-wringing among many who bemoan the lowering of standards of content, but Western media research is increasingly taking note of what is becoming one of the largest culture industries in the world. For decades India and other countries of what is considered the 'South' figured intermittently on the Western media...

What does Google search for? Over the past few months, the Web titan has been looking for new partners. It has teamed with Intuit to enable small-business owners to manage Google ad campaigns, partnered with eBay to offer "click-to-call" ads that connect online shoppers to sellers, joined with MySpace to supply the social network's search and advertising, and helped MTV distribute video clips with...

MOSCOW: The chief editor of Kommersant, a leading business daily noted for its critical reporting on the Kremlin, quit on Friday, one month after a deal was announced to sell it to a Russian steel magnate with ties to the state gas monopoly Gazprom. Kommersant's new owner, Alisher Usmanov, accepted the resignation of Vladislav Borodulin, said Pavel Filinkov, commercial director of the Kommersant...