Taking the next step in integrating its business desk, the Telegraph Media Group's business team will now work across The Daily Telegraph, The Sunday Telegraph and the newspaper's Web site, Telegraph.co.uk.

Although writers for both titles will be spread throughout the week, City sections for the two print versions will maintain their own separate identities.

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USA Today Thursday announced plans to cut about 45 newsroom jobs.

The cut will impact almost nine percent of a current newsroom staff of about 500, according to USA Today spokeswoman Alexandra Nicholson. Cuts will be scattered throughout news, money, sports and lifestyle sections.

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Guardian Unlimited will be the first media outlet other than traditional radio stations to join industry body the Radio Academy and also the UK Podcasters' Association, the company announced Thursday.

The Guardian's audio department produces a range of programmes, including Football Weekly, the football podcasts in the UK, the daily news show Newsdesk, Media Talk and other specialist weekly shows.

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Beginning this weekend, people who buy both The Straits Times on Saturday and The Sunday Times will receive free movie tickets and karaoke club passes, and will also be able to buy mobile phones at discount rates, AsiaMedia reported Friday.

For five weeks, The Straits Times on Saturday will carry a coupon readers can match with a second coupon to appear in The Sunday Times. To receive the rewards, retail buyers must present both coupons.

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Conrad Quilty-Harper, the first blogger ever to become a member of the UK National Union of Journalists, was admitted this week, Poynter reported Friday.

Harper contributes to Engadget and blogs at Spalpeen.

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OK! magazine will launch a German-language version set to debut in Germany, Austria and German-speaking areas of Switzerland in the first half of 2008.

The new edition will be the magazine's fourteenth international edition in three years.

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The Internet is growing strongly in Taiwan, according to Charlene Hung, general manager of Yahoo Kimo Taiwan, who underlined that the business potential has not been fully exploited.

According to Hung, there are 12.5 million Internet users in Taiwan, and 80 percent, or 10 million, are frequent users. This is up from merely three million in 1998.

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The News Media Coalition has reached a temporary deal over media rights and ended its boycott of the Sri Lanka versus Australia cricket series.

The coalition also includes Agence France Presse, the Associated Press, News International, Reuters and Getty.

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Media General Inc. may have to sell properties in some markets in which it owns television stations and newspapers, should new media ownership rules being considered by the U.S. Federal Communications Commission be implemented.

The new rules are meant to loosen restrictions in large U.S. cities in the country's 20 biggest markets, but could put Media General in a position for a “tough fight” to keep its newspaper and television station combinations in eight small market, according to Stanford Group Analyst Paul Gallant, Reuters reported Thursday.

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