Launches and Strategies

Hindustan Times group Editorial Director Vir Sanghvi is joining the INX Media group that has planned a bouquet of news and entertainment channels in different languages. Sanghvi would be the chief executive of the new company and editorial head of the news channels, promoted by Indrani Mukerjea, the chairperson of the venture and the wife of former chief of STAR TV’s India operations Peter...

NEW YORK: The New York Times Co. and Monster Worldwide Inc., the Internet job search firm, today announced an alliance aimed at expanding their shares of the help-wanted classified market. "The combination of technology, reach and expertise created by this strategic alliance is extraordinary," said Janet L. Robinson, chief executive officer, The New York Times Company, in a statement. "Together...

Monday, February 12, 2007 (New Delhi): Leading Malayalam daily Mathrubhumi on Monday launched an edition in Delhi with Prime Minister Manmohan Singh receiving its first copy. Chairman and Managing Director of Mathrubhumi M P Veerendrakumar, presented the first copy of the 22-page daily to Singh at his residence. It is the newspaper's thirteenth edition. The Prime minister, wishing the newspaper...

Russian news agency RIA Novosti will be entering the print media segment with the launch of an English-language weekly newspaper on Friday, the agency's editor-in-chief said on Thursday. The Moscow News, one of Russia's oldest English language periodicals, will now be relaunched in a new version, with considerable changes in both content and design. "The project to create a new version of the...

News agency Associated Press has tied up with NowPublic.com to bring citizen content into AP newsgathering and explore ways to involve NowPublic’s on-the-ground network of news contributors in AP's breaking news coverage. The goal of the effort is to expand the world’s access to news as it happens, the companies said in a press release Friday. In addition, it is designed to help NowPublic expand...

Reaching new markets, content delivery and distribution, and digitisation have emerged as the top strategic focus of Indian media and entertainment (M&E) companies, according to a leading innovator in the IT market research industry. Many Indian M&E firms are looking at investments in technology as a way to more effectively deliver their content to new audiences, especially cities and towns...

Buys brand from Bharat Hotels. Mumbai’s popular afternoon tabloid Mid Day will hit Delhi next month. Its publisher Midday Multimedia Ltd has bought the “Mid Day” title back from the Delhi-based hospitality company Bharat Hotels promoted by the late Lalit Suri. The hotelier and Rajya Sabha MP owned the brand name and had been printing Delhi Mid Day in the city for 15 years. Earlier this week, The...

Mint, the new business newspaper published by HT Media Ltd in association with the Wall Street Journal debuts in New Delhi and Mumbai on February 1. Published in English and with an initial circulation of around 80,000 copies, Mint would be delivering global and regional business and economic news to Indian readers Monday-Saturday each week. Every weekday, Mint will also carry four pages of...

Part of the news media’s job is to make information from people in high places more accessible to the masses. Now one newspaper has decided to restrict access to its own content, and it hopes to make some money by doing so. The Sacramento Bee, which is owned by the McClatchy Company, announced on Wednesday that it was introducing a new Web site focused on California government and state politics...

Trinity Mirror has launched five citizen journalism micro-sites as a taster of what could become commonplace across the group's news websites. Michael Hill, Trinity's head of multimedia, speaking at the UCEBirmingham citizen journalism conference today, said that the five sites on the Teesside Gazette were launched at the start of the year. He said 20 volunteers have already agreed to contribute...