Selected by the Staff of the International Newspaper Marketing Association (INMA), The

Selected by the staff of the International Newspaper Marketing Association (INMA), the following are headline links to news and features on the newspaper industry that have been posted to the web in the past seven days. These items may be found at The Newspaper Industry, a web portal to the business of newspapers produced throughout the day by INMA. A Spanish-language version of this web site, La Industria del Periódico, may be found by clicking here.

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·  UK's Newspaper Marketing Agency Finds That Involving National Newspapers in Brand Advertising Campaigns Can Double Effectiveness

·  Lee Enterprises Subsidiary TownNews Launches Nationwide Advertising Network Serving Newspapers' Web Sites

·  Los Angeles Bomb Squad Destroys Newspaper Rack After Movie's Audio Advertisement Hardware is Mistaken for a Bomb

·  Study by UK's Newspaper Marketing Agency Finds Advertisers Not Taking Full Advantage of Newspaper Advertising

Circulation

·  Hearst and MediaNews May Collaborate on Joint Newspaper Distribution Operations in California's Bay Area

·  Results From 1st Quarter of 2006 Find Most Australian Newspapers, Particularly the Regional Titles, Growing Circulation

Convergence

·  Michigan's Detroit Free Press and WDIV-TV Local 4 Television Channel Enter Agreement to Share News Gathering Assets

Internet

·  South Korean Citizen Journalism Web Site OhmyNews Partnering With Japanese Internet Services Company Softbank In Its Entry Into the Japanese Market

·  Microsoft's Upcoming Operating System Vista Will Offer Improved Online Newspaper Reading

·  Making Money Online Remains One of Newspapers' Greatest Challenges

·  Wall Street Journal Celebrates Web Site's 10th Anniversary

·  New York Times and Microsoft Develop Software to Ease Reading Newspapers Online

·  Traditional Media Must Work to Offer the Convenience Valued by Modern, On-the-Go Consumers'

·  Sacramento Bee Rolls Out New Web Site Design

·  U.S. Online Newspaper Combining Professional and Citizen Journalism Offers Citizen Journalists US$5 Per Story

Management

·  Chicago Sun-Times Publisher Hollinger International Planning Name Change to Sun-Times Media Group

·  MediaNews Putting Up Lion's Share of US$1 Billion That It and Hearst Are Spending on 4 Knight Ridder Newspapers

·  Alabama's Community Newspaper Holdings Buy's Gannett's Oklahoma Title, the Muskogee Phoenix

·  Illinois' Liberty Group Publishing Acquires Nevada-Based Community Newspaper Publisher New West Newspapers

·  McClatchy Downplays Legal Concerns Over MediaNews' Purchase of 4 Knight Ridder Newspapers

·  Agence France-Presse Seeking Buyer for Its AFX Financial News Service

·  U.S. Newspaper Employee Union Raises Objections to MediaNews Acquisition of 4 Knight Ridder Newspapers

·  Sale of Remaining Knight Ridder Newspapers Not Expected to be as Lucrative as MediaNews Group Deal

·  MediaNews Management Not Planning Significant Changes to Recently Acquired St. Paul Pioneer Press

·  New York Daily News May Bid for Philadelphia Daily News and the Inquirer

·  Analysts Merrill Lynch Finds McClatchy's Sale of 4 Knight Ridder Newspapers to MediaNews Ahead of Expectations

·  Anti-Trust Concerns Lead U.S. Department of Justice to Look Into Minneapolis Star Tribune Publisher McClatchy's Acquisition of Knight Ridder's St. Paul Pioneer Press

·  Wegner, Publisher of 7 Dutch Newspapers, Rolling Out Standardised Tabloid Format Across Its Titles and Cutting 327 Jobs

·  MediaNews and McClatchy Agree on Sale of 4 Knight Ridder Newspapers ≈ California's San Jose Mercury News, Contra Costa Times, and Monterey County Herald, and Minnesota's St. Paul Pioneer Press

·  Late 2004 Acquisition of Financial Information Provider Telerate Allows Reuters to Post Market Share Growth

Media

·  India's Tribune Adding 2 Weekly Supplements on Real Estate and Himachal Pradesh

·  Metro New York Launches Newspaper Recycling Programme

·  Bhutan Times, Bhutan's First Privately Owned Newspaper, Begins Publishing

·  Partnership With Spanish-Language Newspaper La Raza Puts Hispanic Community-Oriented Content on Sun-Times News Group's New News Wire Service

·  UK's Evening Standard Launches Full-Colour Redesign

·  UK Regional Newspaper, Star, to Cut Number of Daily Editions and Expand Online Content

·  New Weekly Broadsheet for UK's North West Region, the North West Enquirer, Launches

·  Publisher of UK's Newquay Voice Launches Cornwall Title, St. Austell Voice

·  New UK Regional Weekly North West Enquirer Signs Agreement to Print International Herald Tribune Syndicated Content

Press Freedom

·  Study Finds Erosion of Press Freedoms in Australia Over the Past Year

Stories of Interest

·  Los Angeles Bomb Squad Destroys Newspaper Rack After Movie's Audio Advertisement Hardware is Mistaken for a Bomb

New From INMA: "New Ideas To Engage Newspaper Readers and Promote Editorial"

Discover how your newspaper can promote your editorial content to attract readers, develop your newspaper's brand, and promote your image.

In the new e-booklet "New Ideas To Engage Newspaper Readers and Promote Editorial Content," INMA shares more than 40 illustrated case studies of newspapers promoting awareness of their content, features, and impact on the community.

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New Newspaper Industry Conference Executive Summaries at INMA.org (membership ID and password required)

·  INMA World Congress, April 5-7, Chicago, USA

·  Newspaper Association of America (NAA) 2006 Annual Convention, April 2-4, Chicago, USA

·  Advertising Research Federation Annual Convention 2006, March 20-22, New York, USA

Deadlines and Diary Dates

·  Digital Trend Day - Focus on Mobile, 9 May 2006, Amsterdam, The Netherlands

·  INMA French Seminar, 15-16 June 2006, Bisschofsheim, near Strasbourg, France

·  INMA New Revenue Streams and Business Models Seminar, 19-20 June 2006, New York, USA

·  INMA Research Seminar, 20 September 2006, Barcelona, Spain

·  INMA Europe Conference, 20-23 September 2006, Barcelona, Spain

·  INMA North America Smart Newspapers Marketing Conference, 5-6 October 2006, Atlanta, Georgia, USA

·  INMA Latin America Conference, 11-13 October 2006, San Juan, Puerto Rico

·  INMA-University of Antwerp Executive Training Programme: Newspaper Marketing For Success (Module 1 of 3), 26-28 October 2006, Antwerp, Belgium

·  INMA Market Intelligence Workshop, 9-10 November 2006, Fort Worth, USA

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