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NEW YORK (Fortune) -- Now that Wendy McCaw has driven away most of the editors from the newspaper she owns, the Santa Barbara News-Press, a lot of people in journalism are beginning to question what had become accepted wisdom in the past year or so - that independent, local ownership is the salvation of the ailing newspaper industry. This is a discussion of interest to more than just media junkies...

LONDON (Reuters) - The Financial Times is cutting about 50 editorial staff, or 10 percent of the total, by merging its print and online news desks and streamlining its production set-up, the newspaper said on Tuesday. The paper has launched a voluntary redundancy programme and said it would enter a 30-day consultation with the National Union of Journalists "to keep redundancies to a minimum." The...

If sex, religion and caste are to be taken together, more than two-thirds of the top media professionals in the country come from less than 10 per cent of the population. Hindu upper caste men, who are barely 8 per cent of the country's population, have a majority share of 71 per cent among top media professionals in the country. These findings are from the same survey of the social profile of key...

PARIS — A media competition for minds and market share in the Middle East is evolving as a crowd of Western news organizations prepares to deliver headlines — and geopolitical views — in the language of the Koran. Backed by government financing, Germany's public international broadcaster, Deutsche Welle, is poised to beam as much as 24 hours of daily news programming in Arabic this autumn. France...

Internal reorganisation, research and new technologies are the most important factors that need to be tackled to meet future demands of the newspaper industry, according to a just released report by Ifra, the world's leading association for newspaper and media publishing. Two-third of the newspaper industry respondents interviewed by Ifra felt so. WHERE NEWS: These findings have been reported in...

When the Dainik Bhaskar launched its Writers for Readers promotion in 2005, the objective was to establish superiority of the newspaper based on its editorial content by renowned writers across subjects. The promotion ran in Dainik Bhaskar during 2005 and 2006 as in-newspaper advertising. CONTENTMENT: The ideas selected for the New Ideas To Engage Newspaper Readers and Promote Editoral Content...

NEW DELHI, JUNE 29: India approved a proposal from news and information provider Reuters Group Plc to invest in Times Global Broadcasting Co Ltd's news and current affairs television channel, a government statement said on Thursday. The proposal was among 20 foreign investment plans worth Rs 7.62 billion approved by Finance Minister P Chidambaram. Reuters Group Plc and The Times of India group run...

Google is the first place some 70 percent of Germans go when looking for information on the Internet -- and that's got some media experts worried the company could abuse its position by manipulating search results. Google, along with Yahoo and Microsoft's MSN account for 90 percent of German searches, according to Marcel Machill, a journalism professor at the Leipzig and Dortmund universities. "In...

CANBERRA: Plans to relax media ownership laws in Australia could be delayed after News Corp Chairman Rupert Murdoch urged Australian Prime Minister John Howard to dump the idea, analysts said. Australia is considering relaxing foreign ownership and cross-media ownership rules for Australian media, while ruling out allocating new free-to-air television licences. But Murdoch, Australia's biggest...

NEW YORK (Reuters) - When Americans talk about the British Invasion, they often mean the Beatles and the Rolling Stones. A new wave is on its way, but from Fleet Street. In the last month, several venerated British news operations, including the British Broadcasting Corp. (BBC.UL: Quote, Profile, Research), The Times of London, the Guardian newspaper and the Economist magazine unveiled plans to...