Although Olympic organisers for the Beijing Games are building a database on foreign journalists, the Chinese government is denying plans to suppress media.

The purpose of the database is to help foreign journalists working at the Olympics, set for August 8 – 24, said Li Zhanjun, director of the Beijing Olympic organising committee's media centre, according to an AFP article posted online by The Australian Wednesday.

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Il Sole 24 Ore, publisher of Italy’s most influential financial daily, has won stock exchange approval for its market debut. It is expected to take effect early in December, according to Borsa Italiana Tuesday.

Analysts said the group declined to disclose any details on its listing plans, but it could have an enterprise value of between 800 million and 1 billion euros (US$1.2 billion to US$1.5 billion).

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The largest marketing company in Sweden and the national postal service, are refusing to distribute a political newspaper that contains a caricature of Muhammad, a Muslim prophet.

Posten, the postal service, stated it will not distribute the far-right Swedish Democratic SD-Kuriren, which contains a reproduction of the cartoon of Muhammad as a dog by Lars Vilks, in the nation's southern city of Svedala. Marketing company Svensk Direktreklam stated it would distribute political material only from Sweden's current parliamentary parties, The Local reported.

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U.S. mobile search market is expected to boom throughout 2011, according to a study by eMarketer.

The number of U.S. mobile Internet users will rise from 27 millions in 2006 to nearly 65 millions in 2011, up over 140 percent.

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Express Newspapers and the Telegraph Media Group are battling publicly over the fate of the pension scheme at their joint printing venture West Ferry, MediaGuardian reported Wednesday.

The controversy comes after Telegraph's decision to leave the venture, singing a new deal with News International to begin in 2009.

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U.S. Federal Communications Commission Chairman Kevin Martin proposed Tuesday to relax a 32-year-old ban that does not allow companies to own a newspaper and television station in the same market, a move that would benefit News Corp. and Tribune Co., Bloomberg reported.

Martin's proposal would let newspaper publishers in the 20 largest U.S. markets to own either a radio or television station, but would not allow a company to own a TV station ranking in the market's top four, he said in a conference call.

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Tribune Co. Chairman and CEO Dennis FitzSimons said Federal Communications (FCC) Chairman Kevin Martin's proposal to lift cross-ownership regulations in only America's biggest markets is “too little for the company - and may present 'challenges' as the Chicago media giant attempts to close its going-private deal led by real estate mogul Sam Zell,” according to a memo to Tribune employees Tuesday afternoon.

Tribune petitioned the FCC in May to transfer the licenses of the television and radio stations in four markets where it has newspaper operations.

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As traffic to U.S. newspaper Web sites surged in October, more people visited NYTimes.com than any other newspaper site in the country, according to new data from Nielsen Online.

The number of unique monthly visitors to NYTimes.com jumped from 14.6 million in September to 17.5 million in October.

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The Communications, Energy and Paperworkers Union representing employees at the Vancouver Sun and Province has filed a grievance following a planned restructuring.

Union members are consulting with lawyers to decide what their next move will be, said Mike Bocking, with the union, according to news radio station Vancouver CKNW AM980.

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