Readers and Viewers

It would be great if more magazines went out of business in the coming months. And more websites were shut down, TV shows yanked off the air, newspapers folded and radio programs unplugged. The media landscape needs to be cleared of some of its clutter. Hearst Magazines Cases in point: the closings by Hearst Magazines of Weekend and Shop, Etc. magazines, and Time Inc.'s decision to shut down the...

September 3, 2006 -- Something akin to infanticide is taking place in the magazine industry. As evidenced by the closings of Celebrity Living, Sly and, most recently, For Me - all launched in 2005 - magazine life spans are getting shorter and shorter. Since 2003, survival rates for magazine launches have plummeted. Of the 454 magazines launched with a frequency of four issues per year or more in...

MILAN, Minn. - The Milan Standard published its final edition this week after a 103-year run, ending the community's claim to be the smallest Minnesota town with its own weekly newspaper. "We lost a piece of our identity," said Ron Anderson, mayor of the western Chippewa County town of 326 people. Publisher Leslie Ehrenberg of the Appleton Press, which has owned and published the Milan Standard...

The big three of the Indian newspaper market – Dainik Jagran, Dainik Bhaskar and Eenadu – have retained their position, according to the just-released findings of the National Readership Survey (NRS) 2006. And yes, there is not a single English daily in the Top 10 bracket. HOLDING ON TO ITS POSITION: Dainik Jagran with a readership base of 21,165,000 remains the most widely read newspaper despite...

Magazines have registered a 12 per cent drop in readership – from 75 million in 2005 to 68 million this year, according to the just-released findings of the National Readership Survey (NRS) 2006. NOT ENTICING ANYMORE: There have been a number of changes in the Top 10 bracket bracket though the top two – Saras Salil and India Today (English) – remain the same. The readership of Saras Salil dipped...

The reach of the print media in India continues to grow at least in terms of numbers – it has increased from 206 million to 222 million in the last one year. This media sector is being driven largely by newspapers with magazines seeing a sharp decline of 12 per cent, acording to the National Readership Survey (NRS) 2006. SPREADING IT WIDER: Dailies continue to grow, adding 12.6 million readers...

NEW YORK - This fall, teens who want the 411 on skinny jeans will have fewer teen monthly fashion bibles to flip through. But the moves by Elle Girl and Teen People to pull the plug on their publications and focus on their Web sites don't seem to bother 14-year-old Devon Brodsky. "There are so many other ways to read about fashion," said the Harrison, N.Y. resident. Aside from Teen Vogue, Brodsky...

THE first thing to greet a visitor to the Oslo headquarters of Schibsted, a Norwegian newspaper firm, is its original, hand-operated printing press from 1856, now so clean and polished it looks more like a sculpture than a machine. Christian Schibsted, the firm's founder, bought it to print someone else's newspaper, but when the contract moved elsewhere he decided to start his own. Although...

“A GOOD newspaper, I suppose, is a nation talking to itself,” mused Arthur Miller in 1961. A decade later, two reporters from the Washington Post wrote a series of articles that brought down President Nixon and the status of print journalism soared. At their best, newspapers hold governments and companies to account. They usually set the news agenda for the rest of the media. But in the rich world...

NEW YORK (Reuters) - U.S. newsstands sold fewer magazines in the first half of 2006 compared with a year ago, data showed on Monday, as some markets were saturated with too many offerings while others had to compete with the Web. Newsstand, or "single-copy," sales of magazines fell more than 4 percent to about 48.7 million copies in the first half of 2006, according to preliminary figures provided...