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Modi Government stops advertising in The Times Group, The Hindu and The Telegraph newspaper
The Modi Government has stopped issuing advertisements in major newspapers such as the Times of India, The Hindu, Economic Times, The Telegraph and Ananda Bazar Patrika(ABP) and the reason is believed to be the...
Google made a cool US$ 4.7 billion in revenue from news in 2018
The last half a decade or so has been tough for the newspaper and media industry, both globally and in India. The newspaper industry...
News & Tech interviews Ben Shaw
 on Google News Initiative
News & Tech put a few questions to Google News Initiative’s Ben Shaw about the search engine giant’s news-related endeavors.
News & Tech: What is...
Google’s Innovation Challenge funding ideas in news
Google is launching the North American GNI Innovation Challenge, which will fund projects that propel new ideas into the news industry. The search engine...
Magazine readership grows as much as newspaper readership
The findings of the Indian Readership Survey Q1 2019 revealed that 1.8 crore readers have been added to the daily readership of newspaper and...
Digital subscription survey of Indian and South Asian news media
The continued reluctance to put up paywalls by Indian news media is in spite of suggestions a year ago that it was an inevitability....
WAN IFRA and news business
Publish Asia, annual conference for Asian news and publishing industry, was started by WAN IFRA in 2000 to discuss and resolve the business and...
Newspapers must find new revenue streams to stay healthy
“The floods have hurt the profitability of newspapers across Kerala. They devastated the state last year just around Onam – a time of the...
Native advertising trends in news media
By 2021 native advertising is slated to make up 36% of news publishers' overall advertising revenue, according to a survey WAN-IFRA and the Native...
News and Media in the services eco-system
At its big campus launch event in Cupertino on 26 March 2019, Apple outlined its plan to role out a series of enhanced services...
Digital Subscription Survey of Indian and South Asian news media
IppStar, the leading organization for detailed primary research of the Indian publishing, printing and packaging industry, has initiated a quick snapshot survey of digital...
Argentinian newspaper opts for automation by manroland Goss web systems
El Liberal, one of the most important regional newspapers in Argentina, has opted for a complete retrofit by manroland Goss web systems. This forms...
News aggregators are dominating Indian digital news distribution
The Indian digital news distribution is being led and dominated by aggregators such as Dailyhunt and their reach is growing, said Ramanujam Pobbisetty, director,...
WAN-IFRA to announce winners of DMA at World News Media Congress
WAN-IFRA will announce the winners of World Digital Media Awards (DMA) at the World News Media Congress in Glasgow this June.
The Awards are considered...
Gulf News plant automates waste disposal
Al Nisr Publishing, publisher of Gulf News and other publications has equipped its printing plant near Dubai with a fully automated disposal and compaction...
Dainik Bhaskar online becomes the top website in Hindi news segment
US-based media measurement and analytics company, Comscore has recently ranked Dainik Bhaskar Group's news portal DainikBhaskar.com as India's top Hindi news website. With 3.5...
Less demand for inks from commercial and newspaper industry in 2018
With tradition commercial offset printing industry witnessing stagnate growth, the consumption of printing inks too has been affected, making 2018 a tough year for...
New WAN-IFRA report explores the potential of automated news
Newsrooms are increasingly warming up to the possibilities of automating news content, but a number of challenges still surround the actual implementation and deployment...
Newsprint prices in downward cycle
Newsprint prices have come under pressure from the September 2018 peak prices of US$ 780 to US$ 550 a metric ton. Although there was...
Growing role of artificial intelligence in newsrooms
Artificial Intelligence (AI) has been making inroads into various aspects of human life. Remarkably, AI is now being used in the newsroom to write...
New INMA report focuses on audio opportunities for news media companies
According to a new report released by the International News Media Association (INMA) and the data here, the fusion of podcasts and smart speakers...
Wan-Ifra hosts Digital Media India and Newsroom Summit 2019 in Mumbai
The World Association of Newspapers and News Publishers (WAN-IFRA) hosted the 8th edition of its Digital Media India (DMI) conference on 19 and 20...
WAN-Ifra invites nominations for Women in News Editorial Leadership Award 2019
The World Association of Newspapers and News Publishers – WAN-IFRA has announced the launch of nominations for the 2019 Women in News Editorial Leadership...
Prakash to unveil Newslight web offset press during Printpack
Haryana-based Prakash Web Offset, a leading manufacturer of web offset presses, will display its Newslight web offset press at the upcoming Printpack India 2019...
Megtec’s solutions for newspapers and book printers at PrintPack 2019
Dürr MEGTEC is a supplier of industrial dryers and ovens for roll-to-roll and web forming applications such as graphics printing, membranes, and optical films;...
NYT’s chief technology officer on how the newspaper harnesses technology to innovate
It has been a fascinating decade for The New York Times, a newspaper that has done perhaps more than any of its rivals to...
Indian newspaper industry will have to live with high newsprint prices
Paper prices have been on an uptrend since early 2017 due to strong demand and restricted supplies. Indian paper consuming sectors have been adversely...
Innovative digital solutions for news media companies
Newscycle Solutions, the software supplier serving the global media industry, has announced the acquisition of Infomaker, a Swedish software company that provides open, cloud-based...
Digital News Publishers Association formed
Ten of India’s biggest media companies, who claim that they collectively reach 70% of India’s online audience, announced on 22 September 2018, a new...
A unique masterclass on parliament news
We attended a few masterclass sessions and spoke to some of those conducting the training and education program for young journalists. One of them...
Scotland to host the World News Media Congress 2019
The World Association of Newspapers and News Publishers (WAN-IFRA) is geared up to organize the 71st World News Media Congress, the 26th World Editors...
WAN-IFRA’s US newsroom tour in October
As the US newsrooms gear up for critical mid-term elections, WAN-IFRA is bringing a group of global editors and executives to Washington D.C., New...
International Trade Commission scraps newsprint tariffs
The U.S. International Trade Commission has overturned tariffs put on Canadian newsprint by the U.S. Commerce Department, as per reports in Newspapers & Technology...
Digital engenders alternate news channels
Digital alternate news media has gained significantly from the Covid-19 pandemic. Here we are reproducing an article that was alive to this reality long...
The 50 Fastest Growing Newspapers in India
In the past year most of the top Indian daily newspapers have suffered a decline in circulations not with standing the new 2017 IRS...
Mumbai-based Technicon is helping newspapers automate
The newspaper industry has had a tough time in 2017 mainly because of the twin shocks of demonetization and then the introduction of the...
Media literacy training to help contain ‘fake news’
The increase in penetration of the Internet and smartphones has helped in faster and wider spread of information especially in the developing world where...
Omni-channel concerns and engagement with the news-loving public
The second annual two-day Media Rumble conference set off to an enthusiastic audience at the India Habitat Centre in New Delhi on 3 August...
Rappler’s Maria Ressa gets The Golden Pen of Freedom award at 70th World News...
Maria Ressa, co-founder, chief executive officer and executive editor of Philippines-based online news site, Rappler has been awarded The Golden Pen of Freedom, the...
ppi Media looks at smaller newspapers and vernacular dailies in India
A recent discussion with Dr Thomas Müller-Lupp and Hemant Kumar of ppi Media in Delhi brought to light the company’s focus on the Indian...
Will doing away with field reporting make newspapers more efficient?
On Thursday 2 February 2017, the Kolkata-based ABP Group asked around 300 (Outlook weekly reported 700 initially) odd journalists and non-journalists to put in...
The Quint fights fake news with WebQoof initiative
Popular digital communication platform WhatsApp has lately been in the news for all the wrong reasons. It has become one of the main channels...
Toolkit for women journalists by Women In News
In order to prevent sexual harassment in media organizations, Wan-Ifra’s Women In News group has designed a toolkit for media employers and employees. Currently,...
Newsprint prices rising as they were bound to
Newsprint prices that were benign in 2017 have been inching up in 2018, although not at the rate claimed by newspaper and magazine owners...
Rajhans plans greenfield newspaper print plant in Hyderabad
The Bengaluru-headquartered Rajhans Enterprises group is diversified in newspaper contract printing, commercial and book printing, board packaging as well as flexible packaging with a...
Recognizing excellence in newsroom leadership
The Women in News Editorial Leadership Award recognizes an exemplary contribution of a woman editor to her newsroom - and under her leadership the...
Newspaper mailroom and book finishing sales in FY 2017-18
The 2017-18 financial year as it comes to a close has not been a great year for the growth of the publishing, printing and packaging industries in India. There has been some growth and some
WAN-IFRA Women in News Editorial Leadership Award
WAN-IFRA in partnership with Sida, the Swedish International Development Cooperation Agency, has announced the launch of nominations for the 2018 Women in News Editorial Leadership Award.
Facebook helps develop digital subscriptions for local news publishers
On 27 February 2018, Facebook announced its ‘Journalism Project: Local News Subscriptions Accelerator’, a US$ 3 million project scheduled to be run for a three-month timeframe in the United States.
WAN IFRA Women in News summit in Portugal
The WAN-IFRA will organize the 70th World News Media Congress in Estoril, Cascais, Portugal, from 6 to 8 June 2018. The platform will be used for talking about the need to reshape media leadership
