On average, Latin American Internet users spent 29 hours online in June 2007, according to the first review of Latin American Internet usage published by comScore.

The first comScore study on Latin American Internet usage is based on data collected through comScore World Metrix audience ratings service. The research is based on Latin American online users aged 15 and older, accessing the Internet from either a home or a work computer in June 2007.

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Newspaper higher-ups around the world are trying to decide how to best deal with the issue of staffers writing blogs outside the newsroom.

Some have opened their arms and made the newspaper the blog's new home, while others have wagged a finger and required the employee to shut down the blog or else.

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American journalism's biggest in-house fight, which has gone on over the past year, was on full display in a Santa Barbara, Calif. courtroom Tuesday.

Eight fired journalists accused Santa Barbara News-Press owner Wendy McCaw of trying to end a union organising drive, while the publisher's head lawyer said the journalists had tried to take control of the newspaper.

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Two new resources on free dailies are now available.

One is a study by Ingela Wadbring, “The Role of Free Dailies in a Segregated Society,” and the other is a thesis for the Copenhagen Business School by Marie Bakholdt Andersen and Christoffer Husted Rasmussen, “Det Danske Marked For Gratisaviser” (The Danish Market for Free Newspapers).

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The Journalists Association of Korea will file a constitutional complaint against the government's plan to shut down most government pressrooms, saying the closures are unconstitutional, limiting freedom of expression and the right to know, the association announced Tuesday.

The association's legal advisers will file the complaint as soon as procedures for the filing are arranged, and are also considering asking the Constitution Court to stop construction of new, centralized pressrooms, officials said.

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Advertising revenue at The Wall Street Journal declined 7.2 percent in July, on a 20.9 percent downturn in advertising volume, Dow Jones & Company has announced.

According to the media company’s newswire, technology advertising decreased 75.4 percent at its flagship paper, general ads fell 5.9 percent and classified ads were down 13.5 percent. However, financial advertising grew 21 percent in July.

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While Rupert Murdoch's News Corp. was trying to win over the Bancroft family in the second quarter, Omaha billionaire Warren Buffett's Berkshire Hathaway Inc. bought a small stake in Dow Jones & Co.

Berkshire's ownership is surprising because Buffett, the company's chairman, had made his concerns about the newspaper industry known publicly in the past few years. Buffett's main concerns stem from the challenges the industry faces as the Internet and other technologies become increasingly popular.

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U.S consumers are more satisfied with Yahoo! than with Google, Ask.com, MSN or AOL, according to a new measurement study by the American Customer Satisfaction Index.

However, the real situation for search engines is much more complex than that.

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