Selected by the staff of the International Newspaper Marketing Association (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. A Spanish-language version of this web site, La Industria del Periódico, may be found by clicking here.

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• Free Give-Aways Drive Up Newspaper Circulation, But Advertisers Receive Questionable Benefits
• India's Hindu-Language Newspapers Slowing Closing With English-Language Newspapers' Advertising Revenue Level

• Daily Ireland First Audited Circulation Figure Passes the 10,000 Mark
• U.S. Federal Agents Arrest Former Newsday and Hoy Executives Involved in Circulation Scandal
• Evening Standard Calls for the Inclusion of Free Commuter Offshoot in Main Circulation Figure

• Spanish-Language Florida Newspaper, Hola, Partners With Local Television Stations to Place Spanish-Langauge Content on Stations' Web Sites

• Despite Web Chaos, Los Angeles Times Not Ruling Out Eventual Return of "Wikitorial" Feature
• Blogs Offer Newspapers Another Way to Connect to Readers
• Financial Times Launching Free Desktop Alerts Through Its Web Site
• Financial Times Criticised for "Hiding" Links on Web Pages to Attract Search Engines
• Los Angeles Times "Wikitorial" Experiment Put On Hiatus After Online Chaos
• Success of the BBC News Web Site Threatening Newspapers
• Denver Post's Podcasts Finding a Place at the Newspaper
• UK's Scotsman Putting Some Web Site Content Behind Paid-Membership Wall

• 53% of Readers Untroubled by Use of Anonymous Sources, Associated Press Survey Finds

• U.S. Media Groups Considering Global Expansion
• U.S. Regional Publisher Journal Register Forecasts 45% Online Revenue Upswing in 2005
• After 9 Issues, UK's Shetland Weekly Ceases Publication, Cites Financial Instability
• India's Jagran Prakashan Considering Sale of Shares After Government Approves Foreign Investment in Country's Newspapers
• Johnston Press Paying £155 Million for Scottish Radio's Newspaper Arm, Score Press Limited
• India's Sun Network Purchased Dinakaran Newspaper Group
• Despite 2.5% Advertising Revenue Decline at Dallas Morning News, Belo May Advertising Revenue Grew 1.5% Compared to the Same Period Last Year
• McClatchy's May Revenues Up 2.9% Compared to One Year Earlier
• E.W. Scripps Registers 2.8% May Revenue Rise
• Merger of Las Vegas Newspapers Likely to Find Regulatory Approval
• Indian Media Group Sun Network Bought Out Dinakaran Newspaper Publisher
• Employees at Trinity Mirror Newspapers in Coventry and Warwickshire to Strike Over Pay Dispute
• Ireland's Leinster Leader Newspaper Group on the Market for €100 Million
• New York Times Forecasts Quarterly Earnings Falling Below Expectations
• India's Deccan Chronicle Seeking Funds From Abroad
• On Financial Markets, U.S. Newspapers Suffer in 2005
• Lee Enterprises Reports May Advertising Revenue Up 4% From Same Month Last Year
• On the Back of Advertising Growth, New York Times Reports 2.4% May Rise in Revenue
• UK's Johnston Press Reports Declining Advertising Revenues
• Tax Break Saves Indiana Newspapers Nearly US$3 Million in City Taxes Over Coming Decade
• Newspaper Stocks Trading Lower Following May's Poor Circulation and Advertising Revenue Reports

• Norway's Schibsted Group Mulling Free Newspaper for the German Market
• News Consumption Should Survive Fragmenting Marketplace
• Black-Oriented Chicago Defender Cutting Publication Schedule From 5 Times a Week to 4 for a Limited Time
• India's Divya Bhaskar to Expand Mumbai Edition
• Wall Street Journal Adding Saturday "Weekend Edition" Featuring Softer News
• Guardian's August Move to Berliner Bringing Big Potential Risks, Rewards
• Recent Business Moves at the Associated Press Draw Criticism
• Boston Phoenix Launches US$1.2 Million New Look
• In Tie-Up With English-Language Daily Star, International Herald Tribune to Beginning Publishing in the United Arab Emirates
• India's Cabinet Approves Ban on Foreign Newspapers Printing Within the Country
• South Korea's Opposition Party Seeking to Revise Legislation Governing Newspaper Industry, Citing Free Trade Principles
• Russian Newspaper Head Considering New Ukrainian Broadsheet
• In Merger, Las Vegas Sun to Become Section Within the Larger Las Vegas Review-Journal
• Guardian Pushes Move to Berliner Format Forward to Autumn 2005
• Scotland's Glaswegian to Launch Commuter Edition
• Redesign of Malaysia's New Strait Times Draws Approval From Financial Analysts
• English-Language Weekly Open View Launches in India's Jammu Territory

• Iran Closes 2 Newspapers Publishing Articles Critical of Government Official
• Vendors Working for Newspaper Critical of Zambia's Government Attacked by Group Allegedly Connected to Ruling Party

• Research Shows One-Fifth of Internet Users Who Consume Newspapers Primarily Read the Online Version

• After Losing State Funding, Texas Newspaper Reading Service for the Blind Saved By Private Donors

• INMA Europe Conference, 21-24 September 2005, Istanbul, Turkey
• INMA North America Smart Newspapers Marketing Conference, 5-7 October 2005, Denver, Colorado, USA
• INMA Workshop: “How To Adapt Marketing, Promotions and Advertising Sales to the Mobile World”, 6-7 October 2005, Opatija, Croatia
• INMA-University of Antwerp Executive Training Programme: Newspaper Marketing For Success (Module 1 of 3), 19-21 October 2005, Antwerp, Belgium
• INMA Latin American Conference, 20-22 October 2005, Manaus, Brasil
• INMA Global Forum On Newspaper Publishing, 10-11 November 2005, Mumbai, India

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