Daily Archives: 28 February 2007

13 lessons newspapers can learn from Toyota

Toyota, just 30 years old as a company in the United States, is set to overtake General Motors as the world’s largest car maker. Newspaper Next has an interesting piece on what Toyota did to achieve this, and what newspapers can learn from the experience: 1) Toyota started by focusing on overshot consumers, and its…

DH board had nixed move to replace editor

The Karnataka High Court has admitted a writ petition filed by dislodged Deccan Herald and Praja Vani editor K.N. Shanth Kumar. But, surprisingly (or maybe not so surprisingly) neither the news of the admittance nor the contents of the petition have been published by Bangalore’s newspapers, although the case comes up for hearing on Thursday,…

CNBC picking up stake in Business Standard?

PRITAM SENGUPTA writes from New Delhi: The board of TV18 is to meet on March 5, with “any new business” marked on the agenda. And already rumours are abuzz in the capital that Raghav Bahl‘s ambitious company which has two business (CNBC, Awaaz) and two news (CNN-IBN, IBN7) channels plus a clutch of websites in…