Launches and Strategies

The India Today group is going to launch a morning daily general newspaper. The proposed newspaper is expected to be launched in Delhi. With this move, the Aroon Purie-promoted media giant will clash head on with Bennett, Coleman & Co (which runs Times of India) and Hindustan Times Ltd. India Today CEO Ashish Bagga declined to comment on the group’s new foray. However,industry sources said it was...

MUMBAI: Newspaper publisher Jagran Prakashan Ltd said on Wednesday it had agreed with Ireland's Independent News Media Plc to publish the facsimile edition of Independent newspaper from New Delhi. The Indian company has sought the Information and Broadcasting Ministry's approval for this, Jagran's Chief Financial Officer RK Agarwal said. The company hopes to obtain the approval in a month, he said...

The Sunday Times becomes Britain's first £2 paper this weekend and the Times is also raising its cover price, as News International looks to recoup its investment in new freesheet the London Paper. Meanwhile, the Telegraph Group - which is about to move into new premises with an integrated digital newsroom - is also raising the cost of its titles. The Sunday Telegraph increases by 20p to £1.80...

NEW YORK (AdAge.com) -- Magazines from Vanity Fair to Flaunt to Wired have all published special "green" issues designed to raise awareness and bring attention to rising concern over global warming and climate control. But none went as far as The Economist to directly address the impact their own publications have on the environment. 'Journalistically interesting' Emma Duncan, deputy editor for...

Free weekly newspapers have been around for years, but the launch of London's third free daily on Monday is further evidence that the public seems less inclined to pay for their news fix. First we had the "price wars", when in the 1980s various newspapers slashed their cover prices to as little as 10p in a bid to outsell their opponents. Now we have the "no price wars", the battle of the freebie...

LONDON (Reuters) - They may not know it, but hundreds of workers lining up across central London to hand out free newspapers on Monday are on the front line of a high-stakes media battlefield. In the one corner sits Rupert Murdoch's News International (NWS.N: Quote, Profile, Research) and its long-awaited freesheet "thelondonpaper"; in the other sits Associated Newspapers and "London Lite." The...

The woman thrusting free newspapers into the hands of London commuters did not look as though she was on the frontline of a media revolution and a bitter battle between rival newspaper moguls. But yesterday's launch of London Lite, a new free evening paper for the capital, threatens to have repercussions across the country, where venerable evening titles are battling falling sales as younger...

LONDON - The Wall Street Journal and India's HT Media have struck a deal for the US publisher to provide branded content in a new Indian business newspaper. Raju Narisetti, former deputy managing editor of The Wall Street Journal in New York and editor of The Wall Street Journal Europe, will edit the new title. HT Media is India's second-largest print media company, publishing The Hindustan Times...

MUMBAI, Aug 23 (Reuters) - Bigger stacks of glossy magazines are hitting the newsstands in India as an increasing number of foreign titles are launched here, but tough ownership rules and low advertising yields are keeping a lid on profits. The country's large number of English speakers, rising disposable incomes and greater media penetration have attracted such names as Pearson Plc (PSON.L: Quote...

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...