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You don’t know them but news agencies bring you the world

You often notice abbreviations such as PTI, AP, AFP, DPA in news reports. Have you ever wondered what these abbreviations stand for or why newspapers publish them?

It will probably surprise you that these are some of the most powerful and trusted names in news business. Some of them like Reuters have been in existence since the nineteenth century.

However, few are aware of their reach or…

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Sub-editors, also known as Copy Editors, are the unsung heroes of journalism. They work long hours, often through the night. Theirs’ is a hard and thankless job. Yet they toil hour after hour, day after day. Why? Because there are few jobs in the world that can match the satisfaction of bringing out a newspaper. It’s an addiction. You have to do it, to believe it.

Are you one of those WordPress.com bloggers who is waiting for traffic to arrive? Don’t worry. Follow the eleven tips given here. You will notice a perceptible difference in blog arrivals. More important, your visitors will start spending time on your blog making you a happy blogger.

11 ways to get more traffic to your Wordpress blog

11 ways to get more traffic to your WordPress blog

Are you one of those WordPress.com bloggers who is waiting for traffic to arrive? Don’t worry. Follow the eleven tips given here. You will notice a perceptible difference in blog arrivals. More important, your visitors will start spending time on your blog making you a happy blogger.

1. Posting frequency

A tricky question is your posting schedule. Should you post every day, every three days…

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How to move from print to multimedia newsroom

It is hard to say what a multimedia newsroom should look like or will look like in the near future. What best can be said is that the media will continue to move towards a converged model. There will be plenty of tries and misses in the process.

Much will depend on technology, and devices on which content will be transferred. But one thing is certain. The walls in the newsroom will continue to…

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You can’t find a better example of design change than this

Several generations of Indians have grown up learning English grammar from P.C. Wren and H. Martin’s classic tome on grammar — The High School English Grammar & Composition.

One does not know when the first edition was published. But over 125 editions of the book have been printed so far.

Millions of Indian students have lugged the book to the school every morning. But it is unlikely that even a…

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#characteristics of design #grammar of design

Revealed: The secret of getting your page indexed by Google in seconds

Everyone wants their web pages indexed by Google. I am sure you too would want Google to index your page, and start sending visitors.

The question is: Google may take a week, maybe a month to do so. It is also possible that the wait period may stretch to six months or even more.

So, how do you make Google notice your web page the moment it is published?

Easy.

Step 1 Set up a Google webmasters…

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How a traditional newsroom is staffed

A modern day newsroom is so different to the newsrooms of the past. Newspapers have become much larger, and much more complex, organisations. Also, each newspaper, based on its size and needs, deploys staff. It is therefore very difficult to draw a newsroom organogram.

The best one can say is that each newspaper will have a news gathering team, a news processing team and a senior group of…

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#newsroom ierarchy #newsroom organogram

There is little doubt that social media has given a new direction to video opportunism. There are thousands of individuals who are on the lookout for news moments. But these social media enthusiasts should stop and ponder as to what is more important? Capturing someone’s horror, fright or grief on their mobile phones or rising to the occasion and rescuing fellow citizens from harm?

How not to win friends on social media

Almost a decade ago a Tamil newspaper published the photograph of a young woman tied to a tree. The woman’s hair was dishevelled, her face was streaked with tears, her clothes had been pulled down. She was surrounded by a motley group of villagers, who were taking turns to intimidate, and even beat her. It was more like a kangaroo court that was convinced that the young woman had abducted a child.

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Elements of a newspaper

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7 must see pictures of Federer photoshopped as an Indian

Early this year, a young American journalist put out a request to Photoshop enthusiasts to “make her beautiful.” The journalist posted Photoshopped images of her received from 27 countries on her page Before and After.

The photographs proved that beauty lies in the eye of the beholder. The same girl looked different in the eyes of photoshoppers from India, Greece, Argentina, Morocco etc.

Now…

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#roger federer photoshopped

The what, why and how of content curation

What would you like more? Content that has been selected by the computer? Or content that has been selected by a human being?

There are no prizes for guessing the right answer. It’s content that has been selected by humans.

It may be time consuming; it may be arduous; at times it may be frustrating. But if you are patient then you can build your own following by finding, and organising, the right…

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4 Reasons why e-papers work and 2 reasons why they don’t

One of the most exciting developments of the Internet era is the launch of e-papers. Newspaper enthusiasts and researchers love e-papers which were launched in the late nineties.

Their enthusiasm is not difficult to understand. E-papers, which are an exact replica of the physical newspapers hosted on the net as digital editions, brought several advantages to the newspaper industry. These are:

1.…

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What killer headline experts don't want you to know

What killer headline experts don’t want you to know

This little tool can drive headline writers nuts.

It is called Tweak Your Biz Title Generator. And it sure can generate headlines – headlines that can make the best headline writers gasp in awe and wonder.

You too can use it to create killer headlines for your blog post, newspaper articles, ebooks, press releases etc.

All that you need to do is to enter the keyword that best sums up your article.…

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#how to write killer headlines

Social Media This Week

Find out the exciting developments that happened in the Social Media universe during the week of June 23 to June 29, 2014. These developments can change the way you use Social Media. Facebook releases improved version of Page Manager App

Those who use mobile phones to make Facebook posts have a reason to cheer. Facebook has launched a new version of Facebook Page Manager— for iOS and Android…

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What drives newspaper sales? Is it content? Is it pricing? Is it strategy? No one knows. However, there is unanimity among Indian newspapers that there are 12 key factors that can influence sales. The key lies in working out the right mix

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