Using the mobile platform to expand audiences and connecting with readers using social MEDIA such as Twitter, Facebook and even custom-built tools are important methods for newspapers to grow, speakers at the annual Digital MEDIA Round Table of WAN-IFRA, the global organisation of newspapers and news publishers, said here on Monday. Data from developed markets showed that the compounded annual growth rate for advertising on mobile phones was projected to be...
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UN reports promising trend in HIV infection rates, record numbers living with virus
The trend in new HIV infections around the world has slowed markedly over the past eight years, according to a United Nations report released today, which also notes that more people than ever before are living with the virus. The 2009 AIDS Epidemic Update reported that new HIV infections have been slashed by 17 per cent globally and that some 33.4 million people are now living with HIV, while AIDS-related...
More »Mass MEDIA: masses of money? by P Sainath
The same exclusive report, with different bylines, in three rival dailies. Swathes of advertising dolled up as news stories. Is ‘paid news’ getting institutionalised? “Young dynamic leadership: Ashokrao Chavan,” read the headline of a prominent news item in the Marathi daily Lokmat (October 10). That was 72 hours before the people of Maharashtra went to vote in the State Assembly polls. The item was attributed to the newspaper’s "Special Correspondent,"...
More »India’s strategy at Copenhagen by T Jayaraman
India should insist that developed nations take the lead with substantial emission reductions, in line with the IPCC recommendations. Any non-binding agreement committing all nations without distinction should be rejected. It is a measure of the current state of global climate negotiations that the only point on which all nations are likely to agree is that the prospects of an agreement at Copenhagen are far from bright. The moral and...
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यूएनएफपीए की एक रिपोर्ट द स्टेट ऑव वर्ल्ड पॉपुलेशन 2009 के जारी होने के साथ ग्लोबल वार्मिंग के मुद्दे पर विचारों की टकराहट अपने चरम पर जा पहुंची है(रिपोर्ट की लिंक नीचे दी गई है) केंद्रीय वन और पर्यावरण मंत्री जयराम रमेश ने इस रिपोर्ट को नई दिल्ली में जारी किया। वे इस बात से सहमत दिखे कि जलवायु परिवर्तन का बोझ महिलाओं पर पुरूषों की तुलना में कहीं ज्यादा पड़ेगा...
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