Launches and Strategies

With the New Year comes advice and resolutions, here are 10-in-eight tips by Steve Outing, columnist for Editor & Publisher, to help your small newspaper grow at little cost. A sure way to grow is by following the example of industry leaders. There’s always a reason to the success of their innovations and ideas: an easy way to check small newspaper’s better online work is by consulting the winners...

McClatchy, the US newspaper group, and Citadel Broadcasting, the radio station chain, have emerged as the worst performers among US companies that have made large domestic acquisitions this year, according to datacollected by Dealogic. The figures offer an insight into the decline of traditional media companies, which have been suffering as advertisingrevenues have moved to the internet. Deals may...

New Delhi --- Mid-Day Multimedia, publishers of Mid-Day in Mumbai and Bangalore, and the Bennett, Coleman Group, publishers of The Times of India and The Economic Times, have signed a business cooperation agreement to jointly approach various markets in the country to mutual benefit. This alliance will benefit both organizations through cooperation in printing, circulation and advertising sales...

NEW YORK (AP) -- Monster Worldwide Inc., a leading provider of online help-wanted advertising, announced partnerships with four newspaper publishers Monday, expanding its base of advertising-sharing arrangements with traditional media companies. The news comes one week after Yahoo Inc. announced a broader arrangement with more than 150 newspapers in which Yahoo's HotJobs site -- a rival to Monster...

MCLEAN, Va., Nov. 7 (UPI) -- The largest newspaper chain in the United States, Gannett Co., based in McLean, Va., has said it will incorporate "citizen journalism" into its papers. The company, which publishes USA Today, the Des Moines Register, the Fort Myers (Fla.) News-Press and other papers, said it would also begin searching for stories at online discussion forums and create online calendar...

The Indian Express Group has entered into a content agreement with ‘The Economist’, one of the world’s most prominent news magazines. ‘The Indian Express’, ‘The Financial Express’ and their respective websites will carry content from ‘The Economist’ on a weekly basis. This agreement will come into effect from next week, but the exact day for the special issue is yet to be worked out by the group...

Mumbai: Zee group founder Subhash Chandra is planning a big splash in the print media with a newspaper in New Delhi next year. The Zee group's entry into the print advertising market in the capital, the country's biggest after Mumbai, is expected to bring down the cost of advertisements. The Daily News & Analysis, or DNA, may also start editions in the South with a war chest of Rs700 crore ($154...

COPENHAGEN, Denmark: The fifth free newspaper aimed at Danish readers hit the streets on Friday even though a glitch cut its planned print run by half. Nyhedsavisen was handed out at key traffic points and distributed directly to homes in Denmark's major cities. Nyhedsavisen (The News Daily) had a planned circulation of 500,000 but half of them — intended for readers in the Danish capital — failed...

Here's some news from the media space now. the Financial Times, FT, of London wants to publish from India. It is pushing for a change in the present policy that allows only 26% foreign direct investment, FDI, in the print media. This is the first India visit of Lionol Barber, the editor of Financial Times and he is taking two weeks out, not only only to soak in the country but also to persuade...

Rupert Murdoch, the 75-year-old chairman and chief executive of News Corp, is planning to push all parts of his media empire to become environmentally friendly, using the strategies put in place by his son and heir apparent James at British satellite operator BSkyB as a model, write Aline van Duyn and Andrew Jack in New York and Fiona Harvey in London. Mr Murdoch, better known as a sceptic on...