The March 11 earthquake and tsunami shattered the moderate sign of optimism for Japan’s media industry. More than three months since the quake, it is still desperately trying to minimize the fi nancial fallout created by the disaster and its aftermath. Last year, things began looking up. TV advertising grew by 1.1 per cent, for the fi rst time in six years and in February ad agency Dentsu revised its fi scal operating profi t forecast (ending March, 2011) upward by 16 per cent to US$650 … [Read more...] about Rocky road

In so many ways, the world was a much simpler place in 1991. The bipolar world order of the USA and Soviet Union crystallised so much of global politics and confl ict that it dominated the global news agenda. So many events were still being viewed through the same Cold War prism that had been in place for 30 years or more. Meanwhile, much of Asia was shrouded in mystery – China was inaccessible and, to international broadcasters, relatively peripheral; while Burma was also very diffi cult … [Read more...] about Good news!