The first edition of Business Bhaskar, the Hindi financial daily from Dainik Bhaskar was launched in Bhopal on June 27, televisionpoint.com has reported. Business Bhaskar will have an initial print run of more than 20,000 copies and the broadsheet is 12 colour pages, priced at Rs 1.50. To expand the business of Business Bhaskar, the company proposes to launch at least three more editions in Tier...
The International Herald Tribune announced Tuesday a plan to expand its reach in a fast-growing market in a partnership with Deccan Chronicle Holdings, the publisher of a new business newspaper in India. The IHT, published by the New York Times Co, will create a branded business section in Deccan's Financial Chronicle. The section will be a version of the Business Asia with Reuters section, which...
At a time when newspapers across the United States are trimming sections and hundreds of pages, the Dallas Morning News is taking a 180-degree turn by rolling out a new print product, says an Editor & Publisher report. The new offering, titled Briefing, is a free, 16-page broadsheet that will be home delivered to non-subscribers of the Morning News every Wednesday through Saturday. It launches...
The Washington Post Co is launching a new unit that will develop and manage a family of Web-based magazines, according to a Reuters report. The Slate Group plans to get into other new media ventures that it develops on its own or through acquisitions, the company said in a statement. "The rationale is that you can build an audience beyond Slate's existing audience in certain vertical or...
The BBC has dropped plans to create a "licence fee" option for users of its international news website who were outraged by the introduction of advertising last year, says a Guardian report. "We did look into it, but all the evidence from commercial operators is that what ever people say about wanting a subscription, it is not the case," BBC World managing director, Anne Barnard, said Thursday. "A...
A month after his 15-year association with The Asian Age ended, eminent journalist and author M.J. Akbar's new political magazine Covert hit the news stands on Wednesday, the Indo-Asian News Service (IANS) has reported. "The ideology of the magazine is the ideology of my own profession - journalism. There should be space for every viewpoint as long as there is logic and rationale and it is not a...
Pune-based Sakal Media Group on Wednesday launched its much-hyped English newspaper Sakaal Times with an initial print run of 1,00,000 copies. A 24-page daily, with almost 80 per cent content outsourced, Sakaal Times is divided into three sections and is with a cover price of Re 1, the Business Standard reported. Headed by the Union Agriculture Minister Sharad Pawar's nephew Abhijit Pawar, the...
Sakal Times, the English daily from the Sakal group, will be launched on May 7, Business Standard has reported. The first edition of the newspaper is being launched in Pune, the hometown of the Sakal group, which owns Maharashtra's number two Marathi daily, Sakal. It runs two English papers—The Maharashtra Herald in Pune and Gomantak Times in Goa. Some details: However, when it launches in Pune in...
Fiji's military government defied a High Court order and deported the Australian publisher of the South Pacific country's leading newspaper Friday, continuing a campaign of media intimidation it began within days of seizing power, the Associated Press (AP) has reported. The coup-installed government said Fiji Times publisher Evan Hannah was a threat to national security who breached his work...
DB Corp Ltd, the publisher of Dainik Bhaskar, will launch a Hindi business paper by the end of July, the Mint newspaper has reported. Executives told the newspaper that while a formal date for the launch has not been fixed, the paper, to be called Bhaskar Business, will launch in all the strong markets of the Dainik Bhaskar and will likely have 10-15 editions. Yatish Rajawat, a former associate...
