Monday 26 November 2007
By Erina Lin,
Monday 26 November 2007 at 23:27 :: General
India’s English-language daily The Pioneer plans to launch its Ranchi edition after the launch of its Dehradun edition in September.
The new edition is expected to debut by mid-December. The company has an agreement with Ranchi-based Swastik Group as its local franchisee.
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By Leah McBride Mensching,
Monday 26 November 2007 at 23:25 :: Competition
With the launch of the weekly newspaper Wicklow News, for Ireland's Wicklow area, River Media's number of local newspapers is expanding to 13.
The Wicklow News is the group's third paper in Dublin's surrounding commuter counties, following the Meath Post and Kildare Post, The Sunday Business Post reported Sunday.
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By Erina Lin,
Monday 26 November 2007 at 23:23 :: Online/Digital Publishing
New online business models for newspapers are substituting "pennies for dollars," the publisher of the New York Daily News told a UK House of Lords committee.
The House of Lords Select Committee on Communications interviewed Mort Zuckerman in September as part of their inquiry into media ownership. The minutes of the meeting were published Friday.
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By Leah McBride Mensching,
Monday 26 November 2007 at 23:21 :: Online/Digital Publishing
Today is the the unofficial kickoff for holiday shopping on the Internet, known as Cyber Monday, a trend that rises each year.
Media Life talked to Scott Silverman, executive director of Shop.org, about online spending, shopping at the office and other online shopping trends, in a report out today. Shop.org is a digital division of the U.S. National Retail Federation.
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By Leah McBride Mensching,
Monday 26 November 2007 at 23:18 :: Training & Education
The Daily Mail's chairman is in talks with a UK senior government education adviser to sponsor an academy near the newspaper's office in Kensington, west London.
In the past, Jonathan Harmsworth (also known as the fourth Viscount Rothermere) ended plans to start five academies, “apparently because executives within the trust feared it would compromise the papers' ability to criticise the government,” the Guardian reported Saturday.
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By Erina Lin,
Monday 26 November 2007 at 23:16 :: World Digital Media Trends
The transition to digital platforms in the music industry is underway, but it may not be soon enough, according to a new study “U.S. Music Forecast: 2007–2012,” from Jupiter Research.
The report indicated digital music spending will represent more than one-third of U.S. consumer music purchases by 2012.
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By Leah McBride Mensching,
Monday 26 November 2007 at 23:15 :: General
The Daily Mirror will pay costs and damages to Migrationwatch UK for columnist Brian Reade's statements comparing the lobby group to the Ku Klux Klan and the Nazi party.
The Mirror stated it would pay damages for Reade's Sept. 13 column in today's paper, and also apologised to the head of the organisation, Sir Andrew Green, MediaGuardian reported.
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By Leah McBride Mensching,
Monday 26 November 2007 at 23:14 :: Newspaper Data
An in-house newspaper, produced for residents and businesses by Lincoln-shire County Council in the UK, will have to completely overhaul the way it does business, as it currently costs more than £5,000 a week to produce.
The public interacts with councils differently now than in the past, due to online and digital media, according to the council.
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