Topic: Digital Media

Facebook is paying some publishers $1 million to $3 million a year to put their articles in the new section.

IIS was created with only print media in mind, but the explosion of digital media, social media and 24x7 TV news has changed the nature of the job.

Even in India, YouTube’s biggest market by volume, usage of the Kids app is negligible. Children shift to YouTube’s main site before they hit 13.

The letter says that the govt’s proposed move may drastically impact a medium that has made the media more open and democratic across the world.

N.R. Narayana Murthy, Ratan Tata, Nandan Nilekani, Uday Kotak Family, Kiran Mazumdar Shaw, Bangalore-based tech entrepreneur Rajiv C. Mody, Paytm founder Vijay Shekhar Sharma, Chairman, LVMH Asia Ravi Thakran, IIFL founders Nirmal Jain, R. Venkataraman, Karan Bhagat and Yatin Shah are eminent investors in the venture.