The Los Angeles Times:
[In India, newspapers are likely to be a long story]

“You cannot really compare the Indian market with the market in the West,” said Subir Ghosh, the editor of Newswatch India, a website that tracks the media. “The bulk of the market is actually virgin territory, even now.”

With such a vast potential market — more than 350 million of the people who can read and write do not buy newspapers, Ghosh says — there is plenty of room, and good argument, for going after a specialized audience.

Voice of America:
[India’s printing presses roll on newspaper boom]

Subir Ghosh, editor of the web site Newswatch India, says the market has tremendous room for growth as both the economy and literacy expand.

“There are about, what? Roughly 396 million people here in India who can read and write, but do not read newspapers,” he says. “Now that’s almost … twice the existing market, so there is a lot of virgin territory there.”

While much of the focus is on the elite urban English-language readership, Ghosh says the real boom is in the countryside.

“You have a big market there,” he notes. “Now to see who are the people who are capturing this market, these are all (local) language dailies, these are not English newspapers.

Indo-Asian News Service:
[Freelancers, the 'stepchildren' of the Indian media?]

They're all over the place. Their work is crucial for getting the news from tinier pockets in India, and yet freelance journalists are perceived to be the "stepchildren" of the news media nationwide.

So says Subir Ghosh, the editor-publisher of Newswatch India, a portal website at newswatch.in that provides news - and occasionally views - about what is “pertinent to news people.”
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Ghosh told IANS: “One keeps bumping into freelancers all the time, being in the profession. Everyone has some story or the other to tell.”

He says he recently came across a magazine that pays freelancers a rupee a word. "That was the same rate we were paying 15 years ago. So I decided one needs to quantify things. That was the trigger point (for the survey),” Ghosh said.

Since the survey went out in March 2008, it has attracted around a hundred responses in just four days, Ghosh said. The site newswatch.in has been there since mid-2005.