Times Online has set up an advertising office in New York and will work with News Corp’s recently acquired Wall Street Journal website to help “monetise” its US readership, reports…

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Following a disastrous foray into the German mail delivery business, Europe’s largest newspaper publisher Axel Springer said Thursday that it was now refocusing its attention on its internet and foreign…

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-- ABCe gap closing: Mirror Group Newspapers recorded four million unique users in March across its seven national news sites, its debut ABCe returns show. Guardian.co.uk held top place with…

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-- BBC mulls OpenID: The BBC is announcing support for OpenID. Sort of. The broadcaster said it had joined the OpenID Foundation, leading the decentralised identity system that allows users…

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Like we predicted on ContentSutra, India’s media firm Network 18 is all set to launch a financial daily in partnership with Financial Times, and the new title is expected to…

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Suddenly, the economics of free don’t look so rosy. Thelondonpaper, the freesheet Rupert Murdoch’s News International started in 2006, made £8 million revenue in its first year - but lost…

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Orange in France is testing a concept mobile digital newspaper and ebook reader. Like an Amazon (NSDQ: AMZN) Kindle minus the keyboard, Read&Go uses touchscreen to navigate a custom UI…

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-- Mail: Mail Online is beta testing a re-design for its Daily and Sunday print titles. The new site’s chunky homepage is busier than even the new-look Guardian.co.uk‘s front. Beta.dailymail.co.uk…

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Independent.co.uk‘s January redesign doubled its online newspaper audience share and put it ahead of the languishing Mirror.co.uk, according to Hitwise stats. The site is now getting 10 times more traffic…

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Telegraph Media Group is promoting politics editor Iain Martin to a new role of head of comment and community, in a move that integrates the letters and blogs operations across…

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UK digital publishers expect revenue growth to slow significantly this year, thanks to a worsening economic climate. In its 2007 census, a sample of the 160 members of the Association…

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City University electronic publishing academic Neil Thurman presented a paper on online news video at the ninth International Symposium on Online Journalism in Texas at the weekend. Though previous papers…

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- PCC web complaints: You know you’re having an influence when people start to complain about you - and more readers are now complaining about online newspaper articles than print…

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- WSJ US: News Corp (NYSE: NWS) will this month begin selling the main US edition of Wall Street Journal in the UK. It’s not the FT-killer some think it…

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Guardian News & Media (GNM) is to launch a developer network to “offer data and tools for external developers”. A newspaper… starting a developer network… ? If that sounds more…

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It’s Guardian press correspondent Stephen Brook who has the task of reporting which of his colleagues are going as part of a redundancy round blamed on the paper’s 24/7 web…

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Paid-for newspapers are haemorrhaging readers to their free web editions - but only making about a fifth of the money they could online, according to a report out Wednesday morning…

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FT.com will tomorrow begin giving free subscriptions to college students via Facebook, we can reveal. The news site will launch an app that gives users a PIN code which can…

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Reporting 2007 full-year results, regional press group Johnston said that, while print advertising revenues were down in the early weeks of 2008, digital revenues were continuing to grow strongly. But…

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-- VideoJug: I’m not sure when starting a MySpace profile qualified as a “deal”, but that’s what Telegraph.co.uk and Media Week say Canary Wharf-based how-to video site VideoJug has done…

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- MEN ABC: The Manchester Evening News has become the first regional paper to publish audited online traffic alongside print circulation. The paper has joined those sending ”group product reports”,…

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Scotsman newspaper publisher Johnston Press has downplayed the prospect of making online-only acquisitions and denied it is about to overhaul its digital strategy. This morning’s Times reported the group “is…

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Controversy on two fronts. Eight of the big regional press agencies are complaining that newspapers are paying them too little for stories they run online. Several years ago, the National…

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- DVD downloads: London-based special interest publisher Pioneer Online is tackling the problem of letting people watch web video on their LCD TV by encouraging people to burn its vids…

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The UK’s Daily Mail (LSE: DMGT) launched an unlimited text messaging service today, aimed at driving consumers to its mobile web portal, reports Marketing Week. The MailTXT service, a joint…

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