Will the last American newspaper lose its last reader before the middle of the century? Journalism professor Philip Meyer thinks it's possible. After all, the percentage of adults who report reading daily newspapers has fallen from 81 percent in 1964 to just 52 percent in 2004. If the trend continues, there won't be any readers left within a few decades, says Mr. Meyer, an author and former...
Sakal Papers have launched Agro Won, the first ever daily in India, devoted to Agriculture on 19th April 2005. Agro Won is 16 pages strong and is published in Marathi . Agro Won is printed in tabloid format. Agro Won was launched by Sharad Pawar, Union Minister for Agriculture, and noted agricultural expert N. D. Mahanor was the Chief Guest. Balasaheb Thorat, Maharashtra Minister for Agriculture...
A new generation of technology-savvy young people are getting their news in ways that threaten the very viability of newspapers and other traditional news media, according to a study commissioned by the Carnegie Corporation of New York. "Abandoning the News," the study written by MSNBC.com's founding editor-in-chief, Merrill Brown, adds more grim statistics to growing literature documenting the...
Media mogul Rupert Murdoch urged newspaper editors to grab on to the digital revolution, stop fearing or ignoring the power of the Web, and do more to serve the young news consumers -- or "digital natives," as he called them -- who are more and more going to the Internet for information. "We need to realize that the next generation of people have a different set of expectations of the kind of news...
Not that long ago, you had to be a professional reporter to publish defective copy. Not any more. Thanks to blogs, the journalist monopoly on the wide-scale propagation of blunders, boo-boos, and bloopers has vanished. Now, complete amateurs can embarrass themselves before huge audiences. Bloggers demonstrated their skill at botching a story last month when a swarm of them accused the Washington...
In a move that could spark off another political controversy, the Centre has brought a note before the cabinet seeking to allow 20 per cent foreign direct investment in private radio channels, a market hitherto protected for the domestic industry. The media sector has till now been closely guarded, with political parties divided over the extent to which FDI should be allowed in the print and...
Inaugurating Frames 2005, the annual conference on entertainment organised by industry body Ficci, Union information and broadcasting minister S. Jaipal Reddy made several policy announcements that were welcomed by various segments of the entertainment industry. The best news was for the radio industry, within which the private players are labouring under heavy licence fees. Reddy said the radio...
Next Gen Publishing, a company recently set up by the Forbes Group and HDFC, has announced the launch of its first niche magazine 'Smart Photography' targeted at photography enthusiasts. Smart Photography (SP) is a classy, well-designed and informative monthly that covers the entire spectrum of the photography industry and related products. It carries various interesting sections through which...
Last Thursday AFP, a French based news service and the oldest news service in the world, sued Google, the biggest search engine in the world for copyright infringement. An amount around 17 million was asked for in damages. This story will give you an overview of the situation and the damage it has done. AFP is saying Google presents AFP headlines and summaries on the search engine news aggregator...
The decline of our media system has been well documented. Every week seems to bring with it news about how the news is screwed up. Media concentration, commercial imperatives and a clear conservative tilt is tuning out and turning off viewers, readers and listeners. Journalists are under fire from every side of the partisan divide. You get the feeling that we are living in the last days of our...
