Please note: paid content, not paidContent. At the IMC 2006 organized by the Association of Indian Magazines I found that very few magazines are considering a digital strategy. The session…

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At the IMC 2006 yesterday, I’d asked the panelists discussing digital content why they aren’t looking at mobile phones for content delivery, since it is a potent distribution channel for…

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In an interview with exchange4media, Ashish Bagga, CEO Living Media Ltd (the India Today Group) confesses that they were a little too ahead of the curve with Newspapertoday.com, and it…

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In an interview with Business Standard, Pramath Raj Sinha, MD & CEO of ABP Pvt Ltd says that they are looking for more partnerships and acquisitions (ed: after the Kaleidoscope…

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In an interview with Moneycontrol.com, HT Media CEO Rajiv Verma says that HT will be focusing on their Internet business because of a global trend wherein readers are migrating to…

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Exchange4media.com: UK’s Financial Times is planning to launch an independent edition in India. As per the current regulations, it has to be a facsimile edition since India does not allow…

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Exchange4media: Diligent Media, the company that owns Mumbai newspaper DNA, has appointed K U Rao as CEO. Rao will report to Managing Director Sudhir Agarwal. The company didn’t have a…

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We had reported this on September 16. The newspaper rivals Hindustan Times and The Times of India have joined hands to start a new daily morning English newspaper. The two…

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Exchange4media has a story today on The Times of India joining hands with Hindustan Times for a new morning English daily in Delhi. By the way, we did this story…

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Guardian (Via Gulf Times): India would remain a happening print market for sometime to come. While in the rest of the world (read developed markets), the newspaper industry is worrying…

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India is still a thriving print media market. Now we hear that The India Today group is planning a morning daily general newspaper. It may be a tabloid, and it’s…

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Agencyfaqs.com: UK newspaper The Independent will be printed in India. Uttar Pradesh-based Jagran Prakashan Ltd (JPL), the publishers of the largest circulated Hindi daily Dainik Jagran, will publish the facsimile…

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The Hindu Business Line will be one of the last major newspapers in India to launch an epaper. The digital paper will be launched on Sunday, which will be available…

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HT Media’s soon-to-be launched business daily will have a deputy managing editor. The company has hired R Sukumar, Managing Editor of Business Today magazine, for this role. (Disclaimer: He was…

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Cross media alliances are a good way to promote your products and services. Naukri.com has entered into a strategic tie-up with the Infomedia Group, which publishes some 17 magazines. As…

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Walt Disney India is launching its print magazine, Disney Adventures, in India. The children’s entertainment company has tied up with Infomedia to launch the monthly magazine in India. The release…

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Updated: This is interesting: Sobhana Bhartia, editorial director of Hindustan Times, told a TV channel that details regarding content sharing are still being worked out. There is also a possibility…

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Raju Narisetti, the editor of The Wall Street Journal Europe who is now heading back to India to head HT’s new business paper, spoke at the recently concluded SAJA annual…

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Exchange4media.com: IDG Media Pvt Ltd, the Indian arm of the technology publishing group International Data Group, has launched the Indian edition of its flagship title PC World. The issue is…

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Exchang4media.com: Mumbai-based Mid Day Multimedia is going beyond Mumbai with its highly popular afternooner. The company is celebrating its 27th anniversary with the launch of its Bangalore edition on June…

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Taking on from my post on Indian portals and Alexa ranking, Sanjay of Moneycontrol.com has left a comment. He says Moneycontrol.com (a finance portal from the TV18 group) is bigger…

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The Economic Times: This is one of the major acquisition deals in the Indian newspaper industry. Bennett, Coleman & Company (The Times of India Group) has made its big entry…

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There is a change of gaurd at The Financial Express, the financial daily from The Indian Express Group. Sandipan Deb, who has been in charge of the to-be-launched magazine business…

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Indiantelevision.com has a story on Kolkata’s conservative media group Ananda Bazar Patrika, the publishers of The Telegraph. The group plans to do a makeover and aims to become the Time…

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Business Standard: Bhaskar Group, a regional media company in India, is valued at Rs 2100 crore ($467 million). It’s a leading regional media brand with flagship products like Hindi daily…

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