Jaipur, April. 30 (PTI): The confederation of newspapers and news agency organisations, an umbrella organisation of apex media trade unions, today asked the Centre to immediately announce setting up of the new wage boards for journalists and non-journalist employees in the newspaper industry and said it would draw up an agitation plan soon. Addressing the valedictory session of the two-day meeting...
Jaipur, April. 29 (PTI): The confederation of newspapers and news agency organisations, an umbrella organisation of apex media trade unions, today threatened a countrywide agitation, including an indefinite strike, if the Central Government does not set up new wage boards for journalists and non-journalists at the earliest. Addressing a two-day annual general meeting of the confederation here, its...
A huge media inflation will remain for advertisers in the foreseeable future, according to media agency MindShare, which anticipates the cost of buying TV will rise by 10 per cent or more in at least eight regional markets over the course of the year. TV, which accounts for around two-thirds of ad spend in Asia-Pacific, is set to experience double-digit inflation in 2006 in China, Hong Kong, India...
NEW YORK (AdAge.com) -- After being forced to the auction block by grumpy shareholders and snapped up by McClatchy Co., Knight Ridder has one more indignity to witness: McClatchy is selling off of the newspaper that once held all of Knight Ridder's digital dreams, The San Jose Mercury News. MediaNews Group, publisher of The Denver Post and papers from California to Vermont, will acquire the...
DUBAI – Only a miniscule percentage of the hundreds of newspapers in the Arab world enjoy credibility. And this, because most of the media establishments are owned directly or indirectly by governments – who do not want the truth to be told. This was the blunt criticism made by an acclaimed Arab journalist, Mohammed Jasem Al Saqr, Editor of the Kuwaiti newspaper Al Qabas, while addressing the Arab...
Brown McClatchy Maloney of Sequim tells this story to illustrate how far The McClatchy Co., his family's newspaper chain, has come in 40 years: In the late 1960s, another newspaper family put its Olympia and Bellingham papers up for sale. One of Maloney's older cousins thought McClatchy, whose only daily papers at the time were in Sacramento, Fresno and Modesto, Calif., should at least look into...
SEATTLE - Two newspaper executives took time out from negotiations for the purchase of the Mercury News and three other Knight Ridder papers Tuesday to discuss the future of the newspaper industry. Gary Pruitt, chairman and chief executive officer of McClatchy, and Dean Singleton, vice chairman and chief executive officer of MediaNews, agreed that newspapers aren't headed for extinction despite...
News and information provider Reuters today claimed to have matched the market share of arch-rival Bloomberg for the first time in "at least 10 years". As it delivered forecast-busting growth in first quarter revenues to £633 million, Reuters argued that over the course of last year it increased its share of the £6 billion market for financial information and services by 1 per cent, to 27 per cent...
Reporters Without Borders has obtained a copy of the verdict in the case of Jiang Lijun, sentenced to four years in prison in November 2003 for his online pro-democracy articles, showing that Yahoo! helped Chinese police to identify him. It is the third such case, following those of Shi Tao and Li Zhi, proving the implication of the American Internet company. The verdict, made available and...
NEW DELHI – For virtually everyone in TV except the celebrity news anchor, it will be a sobering thought. According to two of the most ambitious companies in India, nearly half the media industry should logically be relocated to the subcontinent. Genpact, the largest provider of offshore outsourcing services in India that is 33%-owned by General Electric Co., has allied with New Delhi Television...
