The Newspaper Industry E-Newsletter

The Newspaper Industry E-Newsletter
Distributed exclusively to members and subscribers of INMA
Volume 9, Number 34
Distributed 20 August 2008

  Selected by the staff of 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.

Headline News

Advertising

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UK Newspapers Took In ё4.7 Billion in Advertising Spending in 2007

Circulation

Australia's Audit Bureau of Circulation Reports That the Australian Turned in a 2.3% Year-Over-Year Circulation Increase India's DNA Targeting Young Readers in Bangalore Expansion

Convergence

Wall Street Journal Reaches Readers Through Their Blackberrys With Wireless Application The Express and Star and Shropshire Star in the UK Launch Web Sites f Mobile Browsing

Internet

Regional Newspaper Publishers See the BBC Plan to Launch Local Video News Web Sites as a Threat

Journalism

Manchester Evening News Reaching Out to Business-Minded Readers Through Expanded Content

Management

Ohio's Plain Dealer Extends Buyout Offers to 370 Employees Trinity Mirror May Sell Off 7 Weekly Newspapers in the UK's Midlands Competition Among Danish Newspapers Pushed Mecom's Profits Down 63% in 2008's First Half Performances Mixed Among European Newspaper Companies Trinity Mirror Cutting 65 Positions in Revamping of Its Titles in the UK's Midlands New York's Buffalo News Offering 107 Employees Buyouts Materials Costs Hitting India's Newsprint Manufacturers Germany's Newspaper Industry Appears to Be Weathering Advertising's Move Online Well Florida's St. Petersburg Times Avoids Layoffs After Enough Employees Take Buyout Offer Newspapers' Bargain Prices May Bring Attention From Non-Traditional Buyers Tucson Citizen Cutting 30 Positions as Part of Parent Gannett's Cost-Cutting Drive Des Moines Register Shrinking Its Workforce by 26 Positions Gannett's Indianapolis Star Cutting 23 Employees Axel Springer Considering Raising Cover Prices to Meet Difficult Market Conditions Kentucky's Courier-Journal to Cut 15 Jobs as Part of Parent Gannett's Move to Reduce Costs Telegraaf Media Group in the Netherlands to Cut 425 Jobs After Losing ─175.5 Million During the First Half of 2008 McClatchy Enacts 1 Year Wage Freeze to Preserve Funds Gannett to Shrink Its Workforce by 1,000 Employees Colour Printing Popular With Readers and Advertisers Puerto Rico's Ferre-Rangel Group Closing Its Central Florida Spanish-Language Daily, El Nuevo Dia Orlando Newspaper Chiefs Optimistic About Their Company's Future, Aware of the Transitions Ahead Advertising Revenues at U. munity Newspapers Falls 2.4% in 2nd Quarter 2008 Hearst Newspapers' Houston Chronicle and San Antonio Express-News May Partner on Some Production and Design Work Cox Enterprises Places the Austin American-Statesman and Community Newspapers in North Carolina, Colorado, and Texas Up for Sale

Media

AD SportwereldPro in the Netherlands to Close Following the Olympics, Difficulty Attracting Advertisers Cited Online Readership of Australian Newspapers Slows, But Some Show an Increase in Print Readership

Deadlines and Diary Dates

INMA Latin American Seminar Southern Region, 21-22 August 2008, Santiago, Chile INMA Latin American Seminar Northern Region, 8-9 September 2008, Bogota, Colombia Outlook 2009: INMA European Conference Experience, 1-3 October 2008, Vienna, Austria Pre-Conference Research Seminar, 1 October 2008, Vienna, Austria Pre-Conference Branding/Line Extension Seminar, 1 October 2008, Vienna, Austria INMA Strategic Marketing and Innovation Summit, 15-17 October 2008, Chicago, USA INMA/Ifra Classified Seminar, 22-23 October 2008, Prague, Czech Republic INMA International Newspaper Marketing Seminar - Brazil, 5-6 November 2008, SЦo Paulo, Brazil INMA South Asia Conference 2008, 13-14 November 2008, Mumbai, India The INMA Summit on Audience Development, 21-23 January 2009, Scottsdale, Arizona, USA

·  INMA World Congress, 13-15 May 2009, Miami, USA