A new Dublin freesheet, the Dublin Informer, has been recently launched. The paper is a features paper, rather then newspaper. The Informer says it deliveries 250,000 copies directly to letterboxes once a fortnight. “You will notice that we don’t have any news pages. That’s because we are a features driven paper where each page has a dedicated [...]

Mint has launched a Bangalore edition. Published by HT Media Ltd, the publishers of Hindustan Times and Hindustan, Mint aims to redefine the way business news is presented to Indian readers. The Wall Street Journal is Mint’s exclusive partner in India. Bangalore, the IT hub of the nation, becomes Mint’s third edition after New Delhi [...]

NEW DELHI (AFP) — The top-selling Daily Mail and a leading Indian magazine group are to launch a newspaper targeting women readers in India’s booming media market. A man carries a ‘Daily Mail’ edition in Paris. The India Today Group said on Tuesday the paper, backed by Daily Mail publishers Associated Newspapers, would hit New Delhi streets [...]

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 [...]

MUMBAI, November 7: Viacom and Network18, through its subsidiary Global Broadcast News, have completed the formalities leading to the formation of their 50-50 joint venture in India, Viacom 18 Media. The companies announced their plans for the joint venture in May. Viacom18 will include television, film and digital media content across numerous brands as well as [...]

The BBC has begun the controversial roll-out of adverts on its BBC.com international news website. BBC Worldwide, the corporation’s commercial arm, hopes the move will bring in an estimated £70m a year. The BBC.com ads, which started to appear from yesterday in certain key markets such as the US, are framed at the top and on the [...]

Oct. 30 (Bloomberg) — Time Warner Inc.’s Fortune magazine will publish a local edition in India next year, following the start of Fortune China and Fortune Turkey. Fortune India will be the first of the three local editions to be in English, Danielle Perissi, a spokeswoman for the Fortune/Money Group unit, said in an interview [...]

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. [...]

Investigating journalism in United States is expected get a much-needed boost with a new venture steered by former Wall Street Journal Chief Editor Paul Steiger. The veteran editor will launch non-profit media organisation ProPublica in January 2008 which would be dedicated to investigative reporting. Paul Steiger (far left) gave up the top editor post at the [...]

NEW YORK As many papers have done in the past two years, the Los Angeles Times delivered breaking, and diverse, news about a major local story — in this case, the California wildfires — to millions of online readers in blog-like fashion, with brief dispatches from correspondents, added at the top. Many were in the [...]

MCLEAN, Va. (AP) — Gannett Co. said Monday it joined with Tribune Co. to publish and syndicate a weekly edition of USA Today outside the United States. Gannett, which publishes USA Today, the highest-selling U.S. daily newspaper, will produce the eight-page broadsheet called USA Today Abroad. It will contain primarily feature stories from the previous week’s [...]

WARSAW, Poland: A new Polish daily newspaper will hit newsstands on Oct. 15, staking its place alongside a slew of other publications in a competitive media market. The publisher, Polskapresse, said Monday it would launch the new newspaper — titled Polska, or Poland — six days before the country votes in parliamentary elections on Oct. 21. The [...]

LOS ANGELES (Reuters) – The Los Angeles Times may launch a free, tabloid-sized daily newspaper, Times Publisher David Hiller said on Thursday. Hiller, speaking at a luncheon in Los Angeles, said the new paper would be similar to Redeye, a paper published and distributed for free at commuter stations by the Chicago Tribune. The Tribune and the [...]

NEW DELHI (AP) — Time Inc. plans to start an Indian edition of its Fortune magazine under a licensing deal with a local media company, an editor at the U.S.-based business publication said Friday. Under Indian laws, a foreign company has to form a joint venture with a local company or give a license to one [...]

The World Association of Newspapers (WAN) has launched a new weblog to report on and discuss the latest in newspaper strategies and other developments in the global newspaper industry. The Shaping the Future of the Newspaper weblog, www.sfnblog.org, is a product of the WAN Shaping the Future of the Newspaper project, which identifies, analyses and publicises [...]