Dow Jones & Co., publisher of The Wall Street Journal, said Tuesday it is considering selling the rest of its community newspaper group.

Dow Jones, which is expected to be acquired by News Corp. by the end of the year, had already sold six community newspapers last year and used the proceeds to purchase the other half of the Factiva news database business from Reuters Group Plc.

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A confidential, pre-sentence report could give Conrad Black a jail term decades shorter than the one prosecutors demanded in his fraud case held in Chicago earlier this year, The Australian reported Thursday.

The report, prepared by a probation officer, limits the extent of the former media baron's fraud to US $6.1 million, rather than the US $32.15 million estimated by prosecutors.

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Bloggers from two popular Web sites in Singapore are worried that a new media study could focus too much on expert views, and are calling for so-called Web practitioners to gather feedback on how the Internet should be regulated.

Yawningbread.org and theonlinecitizen.com have posted notices stating that the government study needs to make room for regular Web users who might not be categorised as experts.

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The Kansas City Star is the latest in a string of mid-sized metros in the United States to offer buyouts to employees, telling readers today that Star employees with 20 years of “uninterrupted service” can take the paper up on its offer, which gives 20 weeks' pay.

“The voluntary program will be limited to fewer than four percent of The Star's nearly 1,400 employees and will not have a minimum job-reduction target,” the paper stated, citing Publisher Mac Tully, Editor & Publisher reported Wednesday.

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Further developing mobile phone technology will have a “transformative effect on journalism,” Reuters chief scientist told journalists and colleagues at Reuters' Canary Wharf headquarters Monday night.

Nic Fulton, on the phone from New York, talked about the company's ongoing collaboration with Nokia to develop equipment for journalists.

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Johnston Press, the second largest local newspaper group in the UK and publisher of The Scotsman, plans to launch a news subscription service via mobile phone across its 120 titles next year.

The company said it will partner with telecommunications provider g8wave to roll out the service.

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Internet and cable advertising are prospering in U.S. market, while newspaper and TV are in recession, according to the estimates by Credit Suisse.

The Internet, which made up merely four percent of the total U.S. advertising in 2000, is expected to double to eight percent in 2008, while cable, used to account for seven percent in 2000, could make up ten percent by 2008.

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Lebanon's An-Nahar newspaper announced the launch of its new children's supplement in Beirut Tuesday.

Jarida Kids is aimed at children between ages eight and 12, and was originally thought up by Gibran Tueni, the MP and An-Nahar general manager, who was killed by a car bomb in 2005.

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Although it's been rumoured that Italian media group RCS is interested in the 30 percent of the Spanish Zeta group that is for sale, the group is denying having interest, Newspaper Innovation reported Tuesday evening.

RCS publishes Corriere della Sera and Gazzetta dello Sport in Italy, and El Mundo, Marca and Expansión in Spain. Zeta publishes magazines and several regional newspapers in Spain, including El Periódico de Cataluña.

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