After a number of false starts and even one Act which was on the books but never came into force, it is with much excitement that the Right to Information Act 2005 has finally been enacted by the Indian Government. The Act has been passed after hectic lobbying by civil society over the last year, since the new Government came into power with an explicit commitment to making the old law "more...
In a major foreign direct investment proposal pertaining to the print media, the Centre on Friday permitted the Dublin-based Independent Printing Company Ltd. to join hands with the Kanpur-based Jagran Prakashan Pvt. Ltd. for printing and publishing newspapers and magazines. The proposal entails the induction of 26 per cent foreign equity in Jagran Prakashan resulting in an inflow of Rs. 150 crore...
Foreign newspaper firms may set up fully owned subsidiaries in the country. Foreign newspaper companies wanting to print their international editions in India will be allowed to set up fully owned subsidiaries in the country. According to senior government functionaries, this has been proposed by the group of ministers (GoM) on the print media to the Union Cabinet. However, the foreign papers...
BURLINGTON, Mass., May 10 /PRNewswire/ -- Confirming a previous established trend, BURST! Media says that Internet use continues grow at the expense of other "traditional" media such as TV, radio, magazines and newspapers. According to a recent BURST! survey of more than 2,600 web users about changes in their media consumption in the past year, 60.9% respondents said they spend more time on the...
Nearly 150 local TV stations launched on Monday a network of websites that will compete for national advertisers with the news sections of the Internet portal giants. The aggregated online advertising network, called the Local Media Network, includes major market stations WABC in New York, KABC in Los Angeles and WLS in Chicago, all owned by the ABC network, as well as websites from other...
The new wage board for newspaper and news agency employees would be constituted as soon, Union Labour Minister K. Chandrasekhar Rao said on Sunday. To a question on the long-pending demand of the employees, he told reporters here that all the papers with regard to the matter were with him.
We've been having a spirited discussion in the journalism department at New York University. With newspapers hemorrhaging readers and people migrating to the web for their daily news fix, should we consider changing the way we teach journalism? For as far back as anyone can remember, New York University has used introductory courses to drill students on the basics: "ledes," "nut grafs," the...
As newspaper websites mark their 10th anniversary in Australia this year and online advertising surges, publishers are being forced to take stock of their place in the new media revolution. Nic Jones, the managing director of News Interactive, says the internet's cannibalising effect on newspaper circulation has been overstated. "I don't think the web is the magpie in the nest that maybe some...
A phenomenon that is becoming impossible to live without, Google has facilitated the rapid expansion of the Internet in ways no other digital entity could ever dream. It may even be safe to say that practically no one goes online without consulting the simply designed page, giggling at whatever witty costume the famous logo might be wearing depending on the day. With features such as AdWords and...
Working at a major metropolitan newspaper these days can feel a bit like working for the East German Politburo, circa 1988. It's a good gig with great benefits, and people seek you out at cocktail parties, but you have this sense that your days are numbered. Newspapers, you may have read, though most likely not in a newspaper, are on the way out. In this Age of the Internet, we print journalists...
