Launches and Strategies

Mid Day Multimedia is out to celebrate its 27th anniversary on June 27, 2006 in style. The Group will be launching its Bangalore edition on June 27, while Mumbaikars can look forward to a jumbo 264-page special issue to mark the occasion. What’s more, cyber buffs can log on to Mid Day’s e-paper from tomorrow. When asked why the group had chosen Bangalore as its next destination, Tariq Ansari, MD...

Yahoo News, one of the world’s most popular news aggregation sites, plans to launch a citizen video-journalist news service at the end of June that will act as a collection and publication site for news videos generated by the public. Sources involved in discussions with Yahoo News said the project, which has been in development for months, will introduce an upload capability that will take the PC...

New Delhi: In a move that will strengthen the public forum Citizen Journalist, that CNN-IBN provides to the citizens of India, IDEA cellular has joined hands with the channel and will enable the masses to use their mobile platform to report news of all genres- sports, general interest and entertainment. People can now report news items of importance from various parts of the country by sending in...

SRINAGAR: Jammu and Kashmir saw its first women’s magazine hit the news stands this week, but while issues such as dating and working mothers are on the contents page, politics and Islam are not. "She’ reflects changes in the conservative Muslim state, where women are increasingly faced with the kind of choices that more liberal societies have been dealing with for far longer, the magazine said in...

SRINAGAR: Want to know about dating in Kashmir? Refer to She, a magazine patronised by Sheeba Masoodi, the wife of chief cleric of Kashmir and chairman of moderate Hurriyat Conference, Mirwaiz Umar Farooq. Inaugural issue of She was released by eminent personalities and educationists here on Saturday. Mirwaiz’s wife, though present on the occasion, ducked the flashing cameras and refused to talk...

NEW YORK (Reuters) - Dow Jones and Co. Inc. (DJ.N: Quote, Profile, Research) plans to "retool" its Wall Street Journal Asian and European newspaper editions after reader complaints about their new tabloid formats, Chief Executive Officer Richard Zannino said on Wednesday. Zannino, speaking at the Bank of America Media Telecommunications and Entertainment conference, said some readers feel "there...

NEW HAVEN, Conn. --Three central Connecticut newspapers will switch to a tabloid format in May as their parent company, Journal Register Co., tries to boost advertising revenue and reverse circulation losses. The Herald of New Britain, The Bristol Press and The Middletown Press announced the change in Wednesday's newspapers, saying the new editions will be easier to read and more attractive to...

A new free daily newspaper launched in Cardiff on Tuesday could undermine existing papers which have already seen their readership drop, it is claimed. Metro, which is available in 14 other cities, contains UK and overseas news aimed at "young, time-starved" readers. Media expert Prof Kevin Williams said the launch could "undermine the viability of the existing papers." The company has played down...

Readers of the Rocky Mountain News used to get 7 1/2 pages of stock tables in their daily newspaper, but now they have to go online for nearly all the financial listings. Only one page of statistics remains in the print edition -- a mere nod to what was once a fundamental service that all papers brought their readers. "Frankly, it's had almost no measurable impact on our circulation," said John...

A deal between New Delhi Television (NDTV) and Business Standard (BS) is expected for the infusion of programming content in the both has been turn on, according to sources. For mutuality, BS will struck a content sharing deal with the news broadcasting company promoted by Prannoy Roy, for a cooperative and mutually beneficial relationship between the two groups. NDTV's efforts to provide viewers...