November 27, 2007 – Declining readership has hit several news journals hard, leading to loss of revenue. This despite the fact that the Burmese military junta has relatively slackened its control over issuing of journal publishing license, editors in Rangoon said. Obtaining a journal publishing license has become relatively easier with the Burmese Information Ministry loosening [...]

Nov. 13 (Bloomberg) — The U.S. newspaper industry’s Audit Bureau of Circulations said it will change the way it counts paid circulation to provide marketers with more useful information. New reporting standards will count newspapers sold at any price and create a separate category for copies distributed at hotels and purchased by businesses, Schaumburg, Illinois-based ABC [...]

The circulation declines of American newspapers continued to accelerate over the spring and summer, as sales across the industry fell almost 3 percent compared with the year before, according to figures released today. The drop, reported by the Audit Bureau of Circulations, reflects the growing shift of readers to the Internet, where newspaper readership has climbed, [...]

THE circulation declines of American newspapers continued over the spring and summer, as sales across the industry fell almost 3 percent compared with the year before, according to figures released yesterday. The drop, reported by the Audit Bureau of Circulations, reflects the growing shift of readers to the Internet, where newspaper readership has climbed, and also [...]

Mumbai: Media Research Users Council (MRUC), the body that audits the much- sought-after print readership figures in India, said it will delay the release of Indian Readership Survey (IRS) 2008 Round One because of attempts by at least one publication to influence readership. The IRS is a biannual readership survey that is used by newspapers and [...]

NEW YORK (Reuters) – The Wall Street Journal said on Sunday that its Web site now has 1 million subscribers, a milestone for a site that charges for access even as other sites are throwing themselves open for free. It also comes as News Corp chief Rupert Murdoch, who is buying the Journal’s parent company Dow [...]

NEW YORK (Reuters) – The number of people visiting U.S. newspaper Web sites rose 3.7 percent during the third quarter, according to an industry group, even as their print editions reported lower advertising sales. More than 59 million people, or 37.1 percent of all active Internet users, visited the papers’ Web sites during the quarter, up [...]

Guardian Unlimited posted an increase of nearly a million users over the past month to hit the highest-ever unique user figure for a UK net newspaper. According to the figures from the Audit Bureau of Circulations Electronics, the web pages of the Guardian newspaper were accessed by 16.7 million people in September. This far outstrips the reach [...]

Until recently, there were two types of newspaper Web sites: those that made you pay to read many of the articles (the New York Times, the Wall Street Journal, and the Financial Times) and those that didn’t. That is changing. The New York Times recently announced that almost all its online material would now be free. [...]

Every edition of the Guardian and Observer newspapers is to be made available via a newly launched online digital archive. The first phase of the Guardian News & Media archive, containing the Guardian from 1821 to 1975 and The Observer from 1900 to 1975, will launch on November 3. It will contain exact replicas of the original [...]

Once upon a time, newspapers wanted nothing to do with bloggers, those amateurs who opined on anything that caught their fancy, whether it was interesting, or accurate, or not. That was then. Now newspaper websites, desperate for readers and revenue, are increasingly in cahoots with bloggers, posting and plugging them and even sharing advertising revenue. Purists may [...]

Long a staple in Europe, free dailies are relatively new to the US market. Don Nizen, operations director for Boston Now, says free dailies represent 50 percent of the newspaper market in Europe, but just 6 percent in the US. There are now some 39 free daily newspapers in the US, 12 of which have [...]

NEW YORK: Almost 50% of people in Canada’s four largest markets read a newspaper on an average weekday, according to the latest results from the Newspaper Audience Databank (NADbank). NADbank measures readership for Toronto, Montreal, Vancouver, and Ottawa-Gatineau. The data for this survey was conducted in the fall of 2006 and the spring of 2007. Vancouver tops [...]

The New York Times Co will end its paid TimesSelect Web service and make most of its website available for free in the hopes of attracting more readers and higher advertising revenue. TimesSelect will shut down on Wednesday, two years after the Times launched it, which charges subscribers $7.95 a month or $49.95 a year [...]

NEW YORK: Anyone familiar with online rankings knows that, depending on the measurement service, the data tends to swing wildly. It’s a problem not just with newspaper Web sites but also with the larger online world. The Interactive Advertising Bureau (IAB) has been trying to hammer out a solution to address the problem where advertisers [...]