The Philadelphia Inquirer will launch its electronic edition in January, according to Pressmart Media Ltd., which will develop and deliver the digital edition.

"Pressmart will co-develop, host and electronically deliver the print-replica eEdition of The Philadelphia Inquirer on its New Media Delivery Platform," the company said in a statement. "Offering Web 2.0 features that include blogs, podcasts, RSS and social media integration, the electronic edition will be delivered on multiple distribution channels to individuals, enterprises and academic institutions."

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The first Ugandan newspaper was recently delivered to Bukwo, the newly created remote eastern border district.

The very first copies of Daily Monitor were delivered to five schools in Suam town council.

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The privately owned Czech publisher Mladá Fronta AS announced Monday it will launch a free business daily newspaper, called E15, at the end of November.

E15 will be published five times a week, beginning at a circulation of 50,000 copies and will be styled partly after London's City A.M. free daily, according to the Associated Press.

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Gannett Co. Inc. and The Tribune Company announced Monday they will expand the Metromix brand of entertainment Web sites to a network across the United States.

Metromix LLC will launch Metromix.com in the top 30 media markets in the United States, as well as in other key metro areas, a joint release stated.

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Chicago RedEye, the free daily tabloid published by the Chicago Tribune, bumped up 50,000 copies to a distribution of 200,000, on its fifth anniversary on Monday.

With the 33 percent circulation increase, RedEye is now the daily with largest distribution in the Chicago area, the paper said.

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Media buyers are happy with Yahoo’s decision to open up its home page by adding outside links, but said the company should be moving faster to clear up barriers.

Yahoo last week started posting links to other news and content sites on the Featured section for the first time. The effort is aimed to open up the portal and make it the entry site for online users.

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Paris-based Publicis Groupe revealed results that CEO Maurice Levy termed as “good” for the third quarter of 2007, with “excellent double digit growth” among its two media networks, Starcom MediaVest Group and ZenithOptimedia Group and the recent buyout of digital network Digitas.

Revenues of Publicis increased 10.8 percent to $1.617 billion in the third quarter, compared with the disappointing results of the first half.

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