Selected by the staff of INMA, the following are headline links to news on the newsmedia industry from the past 7 days.
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Earl Blog
- Second Wave of newspaper cutbacks under way
Advertising
- Mobile marketing becoming a mainstream option
- Alternative weekly publisher Village Voice Media finds online advertising growth
- Gannett courts advertisers with Buzz Bureau
Audience
- Wall Street Journal receives 25% of its online traffic from Google
- Newspapers growing their audience among the Philippines' wealthier consumers
- New York Post circulation down 30% in 2.5 years
- Financial Times creates exclusive online community in Long Room
- National newspapers' local market competition heats up
Content
- Micro-payment option may make pay walls more palatable for consumers
- Orange County Register web site offers users more customisation options
- News Corporation mulling removing its content from Google searches
- Effective pay walls require premium content
- E.W. Scripps undecided on online content pay walls
- Bloomberg may charge for some online content
- News Corporation online pay wall introductions may be delayed
- News Corporation web charging discussions could run afoul of anti-trust regulations
Earnings
- New Hampshire state government backs Eagle Times loan
- U.S. consumers' willingness to spend on media raises companies' outlooks
- Thomson Reuters reports profits down 32% in 3rd quarter
Labour
- Minnesota's Star Tribune to shed almost 100 jobs
- Pittsburgh Post-Gazette extends buyout offers to 144 employees
- Torstar to outsource 100 newsroom jobs overseas
- Trinity Mirror to cut 17 newsroom jobs at Merseyside subsidiary
Launches
- South Africa's Weekender closes
- Wall Street Journal's San Francisco edition launches
Media
- Many publishers hesitant to take innovative action
- Guardian News & Media to pare back Observer in cost-saving move
- Germany's Handelsblatt relaunches with compact format