The Audit Bureau of Circulation has announced it will begin offering combined print and Web readership data of U.S. Newspapers.

Web and print numbers combined will be much more positive than print alone; however, an emerging question is whether advertisers will buy into it. Usually advertisers are guided by circulation when they buy print, and they pay much more for print readers than for Web readers. So, although the total readership is up, will advertisers look at the figure, or just concentrate on merely print and online numbers, like they always have?

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A Dow Jones board member could face civil charges in a U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission investigation of insider trading linked to News Corp.'s bid for the company.

David Li is chairman and chief executive of the Bank of East Asia. The bank received a “Wells notice,” about Li. The notice indicates the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission is considering the recommendation to take action against him.

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The new Web site IOL Classifieds, launched this week, will give access to the collective classified advertising sections of all the newspapers in South Africa's Independent News & Media Group.

These papers include The Star, The Cape Times, The Cape Argus and The Mercury, as well as IOL's own service. The collective circulation of the group's newspapers reaches over 2.2 million print readers and 2.2 million unique online users.

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The Nepalese government will soon recognise and issue press passes to journalists working for online news sites.

The agreement was struck at a meeting between journalists at the Federation of Nepali Journalists, the Online Media Association and Ministry of Information and Communication officials.

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Google has bested Yahoo! and Microsoft in revenue earned per share in the second quarter of 2007, according to the white paper “Market Share Trends within the Engines, and Their Impact on Brand Marketers,” from SearchIgnite and RBC Capital Markets.

This report revealed that Google has a 76 percent market share, regardless of only 60 percent of ad impressions. Because of Google’s continual tweaking of quality score algorithms and minimum bid requirements, its revenue per search keeps on growing. On the other hand, Yahoo! had 34 percent of searches among its network even though it held 18.3 percent of media spend in the second quarter this year.

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As part of its ongoing selling process, Trinity Mirror agreed Thursday to sell 14 regional newspapers in Berkshire for 10 million pounds.

The company will sell Berkshire Regional Newspapers, including its Reading Chronicle series, to a unit of the Scottish group Dunfermline Press.

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Korea has reached 90 percent high-speed Internet saturation in April this year with 14.3 million subscribers, according to the Ministry of Information and Communication, and the penetration keeps on growing.

This figure defied the idea the broadband penetration rate had already reached its limit a couple of years ago. Yet, an official at the Information Ministry said, that's not the case.

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Coverage critical of the Niger government's handling of lethal attacks by armed nomadic Tuareg rebels in the country's north led authorities to close the private bimonthly newspaper Aïr Info beginning last month, for a period of three months.

The newspaper's director was detained Thursday by police as he attempted to relaunch the paper this week under the new name Info Aïr.

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