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Newspapers themselves have been grabbing the headlines in past weeks, as the country's largest media houses race to unveil dailies. Since Icelandic investment firm Dagsbrún announced its plans in the spring to release its free daily newspaper Nyhedsavisen, the ground has been shifting under the media landscape. The media house responsible for Jyllands-Posten and Politiken daily newspapers followed...

MUMBAI, AUGUST 17: Newspaper publisher Jagran Prakashan Ltd. said on Thursday Ireland's Independent News & Media Plc. has approached the Indian market regulator to up its stake in the Indian firm by up to 3 per cent. The application to the regulator to buy 1 to 3 per cent in the Indian firm from the open market was made by Independent News & Media Investments Ltd., a wholly owned unit of the Irish...

Analysts warned last night that there could be a "bloodbath" in the London newspaper market after the announcement that another free daily would muscle in on a crowded market next month. Associated Newspapers said it would start a free afternoon paper, London Lite, in September and scrap its Standard Lite freesheet. The new title would go head-to-head with News International's forthcoming free...

When a new medium like the Internet comes along, it is very easy to predict the doom of the old. Exciting new media dynamics certainly cast a shadow over the incumbents, but the advent of new technology has always caused people to predict the demise of the seemingly obsolete established players. The invention of radio was going to kill newspapers; the advent of television was going to kill radio...

Legislation and a strong industry code of conduct are necessary to end the complicity of Western Internet companies in political censorship in China, Human Rights Watch said in a report released today. China’s system of Internet censorship and surveillance, popularly known as the “Great Firewall,” is the most advanced in the world. In the 149-page report, “Race to the Bottom: Corporate Complicity...

Cologne - A German media group said Sunday it was acquiring a one-quarter stake in a major Israeli daily newspaper, Haaretz, in an investment worth 25 million euros (36 million dollars). Haaretz, which is editorally left of centre and is Israel's third-biggest daily in circulation terms, described the alliance with family-controlled M DuMont Schauberg as based on 'shared values.' DuMont Schauberg...

SYDNEY Australia's competition regulator will scrutinize the supply of content and advertising opportunities when it rules on takeovers in the nation's 21.1 billion Australian dollar, or $16 billion, media industry, it said Wednesday. Graeme Samuel, chairman of the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission, issued takeover guidelines that it will apply when restrictions on takeovers end next...

NEWS Corporation has struck internet paydirt, securing at least $US900 million ($1.17 billion) in internet advertising revenues from search engine Google in a move that could increase the value of its internet group to $US5 billion. The deal, which News chairman Rupert Murdoch flagged on a recent visit to Australia, centres on a "multi-year" agreement making Google the exclusive provider of search...

LONDON, Aug. 6 — When Metro International, a publisher of free newspapers, moved into France in 2002, established competitors cried foul, and some of their workers took to the streets. Four years later, Metro and other free papers are fixtures of the French cityscape, accounting for one in five papers read in France, and publishers of paid-for dailies are considering free editions of their own...

LONDON: When Metro International, a publisher of free newspapers, moved into France in 2002, established competitors cried foul, and some of their workers took to the streets. Four years later, Metro and other freesheets are fixtures of the French cityscape, accounting for one in five papers read in France, and publishers of paid-for dailies are considering free editions of their own. The about...