Launches and Strategies

Kasturi & Sons has launched Ergo, a free daily, in Chennai, says a Mint report. Some backgrounders: Ergo, a 16-page, all-colour tabloid, is India’s first free daily from a large media house. Free newspapers try to recover all their costs—of publishing and distribution—from advertising. Globally, such free newspapers are now published in at least 52 countries. While Ergo is the newest offering, the...

Agence France-Presse (AFP) has bought a 30 per cent stake in the citizen journalism platform Scooplive, which will be renamed Citizenside. AFP has stated that it will not take part in editorial decisions on the site, which allows users to publish and sell films and photos for commission. According to a press statement from the agency, it is hoped the investment will allow AFP to 'get closer to...

A new Dublin freesheet, the Dublin Informer, has been recently launched. The paper is a features paper, rather then newspaper. The Informer says it deliveries 250,000 copies directly to letterboxes once a fortnight. "You will notice that we don't have any news pages. That's because we are a features driven paper where each page has a dedicated content and we have striven to find contributors who...

Mint has launched a Bangalore edition. Published by HT Media Ltd, the publishers of Hindustan Times and Hindustan, Mint aims to redefine the way business news is presented to Indian readers. The Wall Street Journal is Mint’s exclusive partner in India. Bangalore, the IT hub of the nation, becomes Mint’s third edition after New Delhi and Mumbai. The launch happened Monday. Mint claims to be the no...

NEW DELHI (AFP) — The top-selling Daily Mail and a leading Indian magazine group are to launch a newspaper targeting women readers in India's booming media market. A man carries a 'Daily Mail' edition in Paris. The India Today Group said on Tuesday the paper, backed by Daily Mail publishers Associated Newspapers, would hit New Delhi streets by the end of the week with a print run of 120,000 copies...

MUMBAI, November 7: Viacom and Network18, through its subsidiary Global Broadcast News, have completed the formalities leading to the formation of their 50-50 joint venture in India, Viacom 18 Media. The companies announced their plans for the joint venture in May. Viacom18 will include television, film and digital media content across numerous brands as well as consumer products. Viacom18 will be...

Oct. 30 (Bloomberg) -- Time Warner Inc.'s Fortune magazine will publish a local edition in India next year, following the start of Fortune China and Fortune Turkey. Fortune India will be the first of the three local editions to be in English, Danielle Perissi, a spokeswoman for the Fortune/Money Group unit, said in an interview today from New Delhi. Fortune is seeking readers and advertisers...

Investigating journalism in United States is expected get a much-needed boost with a new venture steered by former Wall Street Journal Chief Editor Paul Steiger. The veteran editor will launch non-profit media organisation ProPublica in January 2008 which would be dedicated to investigative reporting. The newsroom team of 24 fulltime journalists plans to carry its news for free online and will

NEW YORK As many papers have done in the past two years, the Los Angeles Times delivered breaking, and diverse, news about a major local story -- in this case, the California wildfires -- to millions of online readers in blog-like fashion, with brief dispatches from correspondents, added at the top. Many were in the human interest vein. A box near the top of the Web site's home page held changing...

The Guardian today launched its US website with an exclusive interview with presidential candidate Hillary Clinton. The site, Guardianamerica.com, has been designed for the Guardian's growing US audience, which now accounts for nearly a third of Guardian Unlimited's readership. In the latest audited ABCe figures for August, Guardian Unlimited had 15.9 million unique users, of which the company...