Liquidation? Nay, Just Settling the Accounts

AN APPLICATION has been made to dissolve the Isle of Wight Gazette.


Companies House made the application to strike the Isle of Wight Gazette Ltd from the register under the Companies Act and dissolve the company "unless cause is shown to the contrary within three months."

Newspapers: Going, going ...

Newspaper Circulation Falls Nearly 9%

The reality facing many American newspaper publishers continues to look stark, as figures released Monday show deep circulation declines, with average weekday sales down almost 9 percent since the same time last year.

Ad money: Internet beats mags, closing in on papers

A Milestone for Internet Ad Revenue
For the first time, marketers spent more in 2009 on Internet advertising than in magazines, according to a report from ZenithOptimedia, which said online ad spending would rapidly close ground on newspapers. 

Gannett profits up: So expect more editorial cuts

Don't Miss the last para, eh...!

Looking behind Gannett's 54% profits leap
The financial markets reacted with glee when the US newspaper publisher Gannett reported first quarter profits

Now, freelancers face the fire

Rights Issue: Freelancers go on Strike

Bauer Media, publisher of Kerrang!, Mojo and Q magazines, is asking its freelance writers and photographers to sign away all rights to their work

Who's killing papers? Not Google; perhaps Craigslist and eBay

Aggregation and the Future of Local News

Hunting through thousands of local blogs for quality tidbits of regional interest is too time-consuming for overtaxed, understaffed news teams. Why not rely on clever algorithms, much the way Facebook manages social news? That logic has inspired news giants

IPL:Sports or sleaze for entertainment.


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Where Is Modi's Cue?


The recent controversy surrounding IPL has brought to light that when it comes to organized, professional sport, IPL has seen immense success but has failed miserably in

Sunday lifestyle: More beer, less newspaper

Quality Sundays suffer year on year

Sunday Times down 10.38%, Observer 23.09%, with large falls across quality Sunday papers Like the daily quality market, their Sunday siblings suffered a difficult March, all posting large year on year falls.
The market-leading Sunday Times was down 10.38% year on year to 1,111,660, according to the latest Audit Bureau of Circulations figures published today.

Force a smile: Ad declines are slowing

Newspaper Earnings Preview: Cost-Cutting, Slowing Ad Declines Provide A Bit Of Breathing Room
Over the past six months, newspaper earnings results have been relatively positive as Gannett, the NYTCo and McClatchy  have returned to profitability and ad declines

Stating the obvious: As print wanes, TV and net gain

Forecast: TV, Internet Will Lead Advertising Back Up As Print Wanes
Publicis Groupe's ZenithOptimedia is revising up its forecast of 2010 global advertising growth from 0.9 percent to 2.2 percent - its second consecutive upgrade

Papers: All ads, big cash crunch; Google: No ads, no probs

Newspapers: the future

The way out of the paywall debate is for newspapers to become the online authority on what to buy and what to do
By Grig Davidovitz and Max Levitte
Take a look at Google's homepage and compare it with any newspaper's homepage. One difference is striking: www.google.com, the most viewed media output on the planet, contains no ads. And, unlike the newspaper industry, Google doesn't have any financial problems.

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Noticed how mags have slimmed? Blame the ad scene

The ad-page retreat isn't over yet. Magazine ad pages fell 9.4% in the first quarter of this year from the first quarter of 2009, to about 34,800 pages, the Publishers Information Bureau reported Thursday. The decline was in contrast to the upbeat assessments by many publishers about ad spending returning in the first quarter.

Indian media: Bubbly now, a bubble perhaps

At a time when circulation of newspapers in the USA, Europe and other developed countries,   
making some media expert declare that newspapers are dying? (Greenslade 2008), the Indian
print media industry has been bucking the trend in the past decade. 

What does the future hold?

When the television revolution took off in India in the 1990s, many commentators doubted the resilience of print media. After initially losing advertising revenue to television, print presently receives

How long will media cos remain solvent? Optimists say 10 years

Pessimism Among Print and Broadcast Journalists
Most newspaper and broadcast news editors think American journalism is in decline, and about half believe that their employers will go out of business if they do not find new sources of revenue, according to a survey to be released on Monday.

Print can make money -- If it stops printing

Print can make money online

WASHINGTON - GOOGLE Inc. Chief Executive Eric Schmidt has told a group of editors he is confident that newspapers will find new ways to make money online by harnessing the vast reach of the Internet.
Media executives have accused Google of draining readers and advertising from newspapers' websites.

Is restrained force the answer for maoists frenzy?


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In a barbaric act, the maoists ambushed a contingent of 100 policemen and killed majority of them. The headlines are screaming that the brazen act has put the Indian state in a war-like situation. Do you think that the lack of democracy and development in rural and specifically tribal India has powered the maoists?

Odds of newspapers' survival: Lab tests are on

In Britain, a Laboratory for Newsprint's Future
PARIS — Only days after News Corp. announced plans to start charging online readers of The Times of London and its Sunday sibling, a so-called pay wall came down last week at The Southern Reporter in Selkirk, Scotland

Is Sania-Shoaib tieup a case of Indo-Pak pre-nuptial blues?


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Should we ask Shoaib Malik, in the event of any nuptials, play for India? Is there, TV-drama style, going to be some coup de grace revelation?

Can the next billion-dollor business come from India?



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Does India provide the opportunity to innovate and develop the products/services that could create the next billion-dollor business? Or, do you think developing big-ticket