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News Snippets
Issue Date: Jul 15, 2009
>> TV movie distributers in the US have reduced plastic content in their DVD cases, making it 20 per cent
lighter.Though reducing plastic waste is being cited as a motivator, thinner cases are also less expensive when it comes to the cost of raw
material and shipping. Companies like Sony Entertainment, Walt Disney and Warner are spearheading the initiative
>> Radio Erena ("Our Eritrea"), a Tigrinya-language station broadcasting by satellite to Eritrea, has begun
Censored
Issue Date: Jun 30, 2009
If there was a contest for the shortest publication time for a newspaper, Yas No" would be the winner. The publication hit the newsstands
on May 16 for the first time in six years, relaunched by Iranian reformists hoping to use the paper to get their message out ahead of the June 12
presidential vote. Yet just a few hours later, the newspaper was ordered to halt publication by Tehran prosecutor Saeed Mortazavi.
Carbon connection?
Issue Date: May 15, 2009
An owner with a billion pound fortune, it seems, is no security for the media during these times of financial downturn. Even for the leading environmental monthly, the Ecologist. The magazine will cease print publication from June 19. The UK-based Goldsmith family's flagship publication will only have an online edition. According to the online edition of The Times, the Ecologist has been struggling to stem annual losses that were running at 250,000 before the downturn struck.
News Snippets
Issue Date: Apr 30, 2009
>> Malaysia's government has banned two newspapers, ahead of key political developments. Harakah and Suara Keadilan have been told they cannot publish for the next three months, with immediate effect. The announcement came a week before the expected designation of a new and controversial prime minister, Najib Razak, and two weeks before important by-elections.
>> More than 50 million people across the world switched off their lights between 8.30-9.30 PM to observe the Earth Hour. The event was organized by the WWF.
News Snippets
Issue Date: Apr 15, 2009
>> A independent daily newspaper will be launched in Zimbabwe, adding a new dimension to the news market currently dominated by government controlled dailies.
>> Google Inc is soon to roll out free software which allows consumers to track their home electricity use and improve energy efficiency. Dan Reicher,director, Climate Change and Energy Initiatives Google, told the news agency Reuters his company was in talks with utilities companies in the US, Europe and Asia to make the product available to consumers.
Stationary?
Issue Date: Mar 15, 2009
No news is good news, goes the proverb. The people of Guinea-Bissau disagree. The nation of 1.6 million people in West Africa has gone without newspapers for almost two months because of a paper crisis. "Printing-houses don't have paper," Atizar Mendes, director of the weekly Ultima Hora, told the news agency AFP.
Three cheers for the paper
Issue Date: Feb 28, 2009
Many critics have passed their verdict on newspapers. The Internet will surpass them, they hold. An American start-up wants to start dozens of new ones--with a twist. The Printed Blog, a Chicago start-up, plans to reprint blog posts on paper, with local ads, and distribute them for free in big cities.
God isn't one
Issue Date: Feb 15, 2009
Malaysian authorities have taken it upon themselves to decide who gets to use the word Allah. In mid-December, they banned the Catholic newspaper Herald because it used the word. The ban was revoked but on the condition that the Malay language newspaper does not use the word Allah. The Herald is circulated among the country's 850,000 Catholics. The authorities said "Allah" should be used only by Muslims.
Maoist speak
Issue Date: Jan 31, 2009
In the last week of December, many newspapers in Nepal kept their editorial space blank to protest against attacks on the offices of Himal Media. On December 21 the offices of Nepal's biggest newspaper publishing house was vandalized, allegedly by workers of the Nepal's ruling party cpn (m). Kunda Dixit, editor of the Nepali Times, and 12 other staff members of Himal Media were injured in the attack.
Why this magazine?
Issue Date: Jan 15, 2009
WHEN we began publishing in May 1992--400 fortnights ago--we answered this question from this space. (If you did not read it, look it up on our website.) We concluded "It is therefore our readers who will decide to make or break this magazine, whether the need we feel is indeed widely felt." Our survival and growth, without financial backing of a media house, is testament to the demand for what we do.
