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Online Retail Shopping is the latest form of shopping in India. Still at a nascent stage it is in vogue among youngsters who are earning handsome disposable income. I too have joined the bandwagon I started to shop online just a year back. My first buy was on www.fashionnyou.com. I bought a top from Aadro [...]
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Online Retail Shopping
Posted: May 2, 2012 by bb in MediaTags: Online Retail Shopping, www.99labels.com, www.fashionnyou.com, www.zovi.com
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Indian Express was launched by an ayurvedic doctor and congressman Varadarajulla Naidu on Sep 1932. When the paper faced financial difficulties Goenka took over as the publisher. The first issue carried 7 advertisements on the front page.
OPEN the latest entrant in the magazine’s sphere covers current affairs and features on a weekly basis. It includes voices of some prominent journalists such as CP Surendra, Hartosh Singh Bal, Manu Joseph and Sandipan Deb. Regular columns are a mix of National, International, Business, Sports and Arts & Culture stories . The online version [...]
Yuva, once a Re. 1 weekly newspaper is back on the stands in an all new avatar. Yuva is now a bi weekly magazine and costs Rs.30. It has all that youth needs to read – Relationship, Book, Beauty, Films, Health, Music, Sports, Travel, Music, Career, Sex etc. These are written by experts. Apart from [...]
If TV channels wasn’t enough for the bleak future of print media, the Information and Broadcast ministry plans to hike Foreign Direct Investment to 49% from current 26%. What does this mean? It means that,foreign investers would have their products beings marketed heavily through print media. Moreover, the editorial custody which was anyways jeopardised by [...]
Where does one draw the line between journalism and public relation?
Posted: June 1, 2009 by bb in MediaThis dates some 5 years back, I was freelancing then for a youth mag. I was a curious little girl who was simultaneously learning about media and journalism to be specific. I remember calling up the editor of the mag and suggesting a story idea. The idea was to go to different designers and check [...]
Wish to be a Model? But have no money, to make a portfolio from a professional photographer? Worry, Not. PhotoFunia helps you make quick portfolio free of cost. You heard it right. Free. All you need is a passport size picture clicked on your mobile. Log on to http://www.photofunia.com/ Click on any effect available. The [...]
Media boom saw news shacks on the railway stations wraped up with newspapers and magazines. By the end of 2008, this media bubble broke. Along came the vanashing act by few newspapers and magazines. JLT, Ngage,Yuva and What’s Hot are few which have vanished off the stands. JLT, a youth magazine from Times Group started [...]
If you have the slightest idea about Noam Chomsky then David Barsamian will not be an alien to you. Last time, he walked through the lanes of Bombay was 40 years ago. Yesterday (17.12.2007) he visited the Mumbai University for a talk on US foreign policy towards Middle East and South Asia. Apparently he visited Pakistan before coming to [...]
Should newsrooms intergrate as digital distribution takes momentum?
Posted: December 13, 2007 by bb in MediaRecently, The Hindustan Times integrated its operations. “It seems newspapers enjoy talking about ‘their successful road to integration’, but this is always in retrospect, ” says Pankaj Paul HT’s managing editor in an interview. http://www.editorsweblog.org/analysis//2007/09/in_the_editors_shoes_the_hindustan_times.php#more Today every newspaper and news channel in India have their digital presence. However not many are leveraging the power of this [...]
Comparative Analysis of Daily News and Anaysis, Hindustan Times & Mumbai Mirror
Posted: December 10, 2007 by bb in MediaAnalyst says that 3.5m people read English in Mumbai but only 2.1m buy English newsprint of any kind. Two and a half years ago, Mumbai had only six English dailies.With new entrants HT and DNA, media planners and buyers began to believe that finally there would be non-monopolistic print market in Mumbai. But till date TOI advertising [...]
I would like to focus attention on the two words ’Self Serving.’ They are quite critical when it comes to Indian journalism today. They also raise questions that need to be answered by Indian journalists. In this context, I would like to use an excerpt from an interview conducted by CNN-IBN: Anuradha SenGupta: Isn’t the Tehelka kind of [...]
Tehelka is now in a Magazine format. But didn’t Tehelka’s tabloid format set it apart from existing magazines on stands. May be I’ll get a hang of it. After all, its what inside that matters,isn’t it. There is more, the website has transformed too. Though, personally, I never liked its online version. But I am sure, I [...]
Source:Advertising Age The recent ban on Red FM station after RJ addressed the Indian Idol3 as Gurkha which caused uproar in North Eastern states has raised question over monitoring content on FM radio stations. Similar incident took place not long ago,in New York when WFNY-FM aired a segment that featured a pair of DJs placing a call to a local Chinese [...]
Channel [V] is on a look out for FIVE distinct personalities with strong views about modern India. These FIVE individuals will travel across the country blogging their encounters with a variety of situations and people.Log on to www.vindia.com to register. Sounds interesting,isn’t?
Mumbai University will soon set up a community radio. Clearance from the Union Information and Broadcasting Ministry has already come through and the University is in the process of getting a frequency allocation. At present there are 28 community radio stations in India, with Tamil Nadu’s Anna University being the first one to start broadcasting [...]
It’s not just Indian news media going berserk over Rakhi Sawant. Paris Hilton the hollywood sister of Rakhi Sawant has been stealing the limelight since a long time in US news. In India pg3 became pg1 in the last two years,while this trend began in US long time ago. While many succumb to this trend,on June 26, 2007, near the [...]
Maharashtra based blogger duo Debashish Chakrabarty and Shashi Singh have launched Podbharti www.podbharti.com , India’s first pure Hindi Podzine targeted towards Hindi audience in India and abroad, and providing a comprehensive coverage of News & Views about Indian language blogging, Tools & Technology, Current Affairs and the Entertainment Industry. Podbharti.com also declared a partnership with the [...]
Lodestar Universal Labcentre, strategic media solution partners to Radio City 91.1FM bagged the Gold for Radio City ‘Good Morning Bangalore’ in the ‘Best Media Strategy – Media/Media Property’ category at the EMVIES 2007. The EMVIES has gained not only in popularity but also come to be recognized as one of the most coveted awards amongst [...]
Gone are the days when marketing heads thought twice, before stepping into the editors room These days marketing heads dictate the rules of the game While editors follow suit; Thats not all coz editors too switch hats on and off While one came from the management school; the other from the old school of journalism While the later [...]
