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Indian Express goes to Bangalore with a new title
Anant Rangaswami • 12 years agoAmazon founder Jeff Bezos scoops up the Washington Post for $250 million
Choudhury • 12 years agoBezos is worth $25 billion, and is gaining control of the Post from the Graham family, which has led it for decades. Bezos, who is acquiring the paper in his personal capacity and not through Amazon.com, said that he understood "the critical role the Post plays in Washington, DC."
How shut down of Marie Claire shows lack of readers for lifestyle magazines
Pallavi • 12 years agoIt is learnt the employees were in the final stages of bringing out the latest issue, which it now turns out will be their last, when they heard the news via Twitter.
Like the rupee, TAM is also a currency under threat
Anant Rangaswami • 12 years agoTAM Media Research the joint venture between Nielsen (India) Private Limited and Kantar Market Research, measures and analyses television viewership in India.
Soon, Washington Post to start charging for digital access
Fp Archives • 12 years agoOnline readers of the Post will be required to pay a subscription fee after accessing 20 free articles per month. Subscribes to the print edition of the newspaper will have free access to all of the Post's digital content.
The advertiser's love affair with print media is ending
Anant Rangaswami • 13 years agoThe print media is no longer growing robustly where it counts - in terms of advertising revenues and circulation.
Rupert Murdoch withdraws $80 billion offer for Time Warner
Fp Archives • 11 years agoRupert Murdoch has said his 21st Century Fox group had withdrawn its bid for Time Warner, a massive offer which could have shaken up the media-entertainment world.
New York Times bids goodbye to India Ink, cites resource constraint
Fp Archives • 11 years agoCiting resource constraints, the New York Times has dropped its special "India Ink" section providing in-depth coverage of "The World's largest Democracy at a Crossroads" after a three year run.
BCCL needs to make up its mind on the Indian Readership Survey
Anant Rangaswami • 11 years agoThe IRS numbers were published in January 2014; what has provoked this morning’s front page ET story, more than four months after the release and when nothing new has happened since then?
Infosys defamation suit: Why media should fight for its quick disposal
Anant Rangaswami • 11 years agoThanks to the slow speed at which courts in India operate, defamation suits could be, and are, used to bully and harass smaller media products.