The gloves are well and truly coming off in New Delhi. The marketing heavyweights, Hindustan Times and The Times of India, first joined hands to launch a tabloid Metro Now to preempt tabloid Mail Today. And then HT refused to run the ads of the new paper launched by the India Today group. Now,…
Daily Archives: 22 November 2007
Aroon Purie: Indian papers are in a time warp
In the West, newspaper readership is falling and advertising and circulation revenues are sinking. In India, existing newspaper groups are trying to consolidate through their web presence, etc, before the bad news arrives, as it must. Brave, therefore, is the media baron who, with no newspaper experience, decides to launch a brand-new newspaper from scratch.…
The world’s oldest, most fearless journalist
“I tape, therefore I am. I tape, therefore they are. Who are they, these etceteras of history, hardly worth a footnote? Who are they of whom the bards have seldom sung?” Studs Terkel, blacklisted, wiretapped, censored but still fighting fit. Read the full story here: What a fearless journalist looks like
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