Media - Internet

Consider this. In the world of off-line media in India, non-English media dominate English media and the penetration of language media is more than four times the penetration of English media (Indian Readership survey 2000). However, only 11.5 per cent of the estimated 8 million net users in India are aware of language sites. The current penetration of language Internet services? About 9.5 per...

The receptionist at Inside.com's front desk is color-coordinated to the online magazine's spacious northern Chelsea loft. Her teeny, bright sea-green halter top conveniently shows off a prominent tattoo on her right shoulder, and it is a near-perfect match to a turquoise floor-to-ceiling tube-shaped room that is about twice as wide as her desk. What is it? "Oh, that's the conference room," she...

The deal was sealed with a hug. Instead of being at war, Bertelsmann, the world's third-largest media conglomerate, and Napster, the popular upstart, are to be partners. Bertelsmann will drop its copyright infringement suit against Napster if the free file-sharing service can convert to paid subscriber services, using a secure system that grants access to Bertelsmann Music Group's catalogue...

A COUPLE OF YEARS AGO, Paul Grabowicz began hearing about some of the problems recent graduates were encountering when they went off to practice journalism at news Web sites. Nothing monstrous, mind you, but case after worrisome case in which marketing and advertising discussions had slopped over into the newsroom. "It wasn't just us reading it and chewing on it" anymore, says Grabowicz, the new...

THAT UNSEEMLY CLATTER heard 'round the World Wide Web recently was the sound of the Internet "content" business buckling, perhaps from the weight of over-inflated expectations. One by one, the New Economy's information darlings--Salon.com, iVillage.com, The-Street.com, Drkoop.com, to name a few--swooned and sputtered. Depending on whose numbers you believe, somewhere between 2,000 and 3,500 dotcom...

When Wall Street Journal reporter Kara Swisher spoke at Berkeley's Graduate School of Journalism last year, she called online journalists "linkalists" -- a joke, she insists, though some didn't find it funny. That may be because "linkalism" creates not only opportunities for new kinds of journalism but new challenges in setting and holding to journalistic standards, challenges that the world of...

In the last few years the conventional wisdom has been that the advent of the new media will hasten the demise of print. That newspapers will die as readers get more information from the Internet; magazines will be overwhelmed by the proliferation of inexpensively-produced, niche-oriented sites and Webzines; bound books will be replaced by digitalized e-books. That the culture of print, in short...

A long, long time ago -- the spring of 1999 -- it seemed as if the Internet had sprinkled financial pixie dust upon the publishing industry. Publications that had only been around for a couple of years, like TheStreet.com and CBSMarket Watch.com, were entering the stock market with smashing success. The market transformed mere Webzines into "Internet content companies" worth as much as a billion...

If the Web can be considered in cosmological terms, then right about now we're in the infinite nanosecond after the Big Bang, an inflationary moment when all that matter spreads itself out. Now things start to coalesce. New technologies and faster connectivity are at work, as is the gravity of financial pressure. In five years thousands of media jobs have come into existence. Headlines that once...

IT'S NOT EASY getting into the Pentagon, even if you've got a row of medals on your chest. So Military.com reporter Stephen Trimble shouldn't be so surprised at the hearty congratulations he's been getting for being the first online journalist granted a press pass there. "We definitely had to jump through hoops," says Trimble, who applied for the pass before the military news site had launched on...