A newspaper marketing company in Zimbabwe has begun selling titles from South Africa's Independent News & Media (INMSA), just over a month after the Sowetan hit the country's newsstands but was quickly withdrawn.

These new titles appearing on Zimbabwe newsstands are The Saturday Star, The Sunday Independent and Wednesday's edition of The Star. They are distributed by Munn Marketing, the same company bringing the existing foreign titles into the country.

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The latest paper to be added to Seoul's already crowded and intensely competitive free daily newspaper market closed down after just a few months, Newspaper Innovation reported Thursday.

Economic free daily IlIlKyunJe launched in July 2007, and closed down after three months.

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Indian newspapers could be helped by more dialogue within the industry, as well as learning from outside industries, participants said at the final day of the International Newspaper Marketing Association's (INMA) first South Asian conference in New Delhi Friday, The Times of India reported.

“As an industry we do not discuss what advertisers expect from us. If we talk more and discuss such ideas at least once a year we can definitely improve,” said Ravi Dhariwal, president, INMA Asia division, and CEO (Publishing), The Times of India.

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Ten employees of the Reno-Gazette Journal, a Nevada-based newspaper, have accepted voluntary buyouts to retire by the end of the year, according to the newspaper's Web site.

These ten veterans include five senior writers and editors at the newsroom - Managing Editor Tonia Cunning, columnist Cory Farley, reporter Don Cox, sportswriter Steven Sneddon and newsroom administrative assistant Sharon Genung.

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Victoria is flourishing when it comes to newspaper readership in Australia, according to the latest circulation and readership data reported by The Age Friday.

For the year up to Sept. 30, the Herald Sun's weekday edition was the only Melbourne-based paper to see a drop in sales, of Australia's top two publishers, News Ltd. and Fairfax Media, which owns The Age.

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