Media - Internet

Bulgaria's leading online media Sofia News Agency and Darik News pooled efforts in a joint project, called DarikWeb, Inc. The company will be officially presented on September 13 at Radisson hotel, Sofia, 11 am by Maxim Behar, publisher of Sofia News Agency, and Radosvet Radev, owner of Darik News and private national radio broadcaster Darik. DarikWeb, Inc. sets out to be the leader in Bulgaria's...

At a blog conference held in Chennai last week, a prominently displayed banner read, “I killed the conventional media”. The conference was held along the lines of numerous such events in the United States, where Internet companies pay top dollar to send their executives to listen to college kids talk about blogging. This one was meant to trade techniques, share experiences and try and look at the...

A series of videos showing a 16-year-old girl opining about life, relationships, planets, cookies and religion from the orderly confines of her bedroom somewhere in smalltown America has become the pop culture hit of the summer. The short video blog postings by lonelygirl15 on the YouTube website have attracted millions of viewers since they started appearing in May. But the postings' polished...

A group of 51 newspaper publishers in Japan including The Japan Times said Thursday it will establish a new company this month that will create a Web site containing news and regional information. Press Net Japan Co. will be headquartered in Tokyo. The Web site is scheduled to be up and running by the end of the year. The site will carry domestic and overseas news, information on tourism and local...

COLLEGE students are famous for their transient ways, moving frequently and rarely leaving a permanent mailing address for magazine publishers to send subscription solicitations to. For now, some magazine publishers are settling for their e-mail address. A new digital initiative to begin this month will give away thousands of magazine subscriptions to college students, but the magazines will be...

Google has launched a service that will permit Internet users to search through the archives of newspapers, magazines and other publications and uncover material that in some cases dates back more than 200 years. The new feature, Google News Archive Search, will direct users to both paid and free digital content on publishers' websites, but will not directly generate revenue for Google. TIMELINED...

A senior editor at The New Republic was suspended and his blog was shut down on Friday after revelations that he was involved in anonymously attacking readers who criticized his posts. Lee Siegel, creator of the Lee Siegel on Culture blog for tnr.com, was suspended indefinitely from the magazine after a reader accused him of using a “sock puppet,” or Internet alias, to attack his critics in the...

Newspapers in the United States (US) are successfully extending their reach beyond the core printed products, resulting in net increases in audience, a new study from Scarborough Research has found. The findings are from its Integrated Newspaper Audience (INA) project, a measurement that combines the audience of traditional printed newspapers with the audience of their websites. BIG PHOENIX MARKET...

For newspapers in the US it is less and lesser of print vs online now – as online news becomes a regular part of the daily routines of average Americans, newspapers are expanding their reach to the Web and rapidly developing new products and tools especially for their websites, a new study has revealed. BLOGGING BOSTON: The Boston Globe offers a particularly robust network of blogs. There are...

Despite the news media's fascination with the so-called blogosphere, a national survey has found that only about one in eight American adults currently uses Internet blogs to get news and information. But these Web logs - personal diaries and observations posted on easy-to-update Internet Web pages in a process called "blogging" - are much more popular among certain demographic groups. A survey of...