Readers and editors both trust what they read on newspaper Web sites, but readers are generally not as troubled by anonymous reader comments at the end of online articles as editors are, according to an Associated Press Managing Editors poll released this week, the Kennebec Journal and Morning Sentinel in Maine reported Thursday.

More than 1,200 U.S. editors and 500 online news readers were surveyed.

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The founder of the Vail Daily in Colorado in 1981, Jim Pavelich is preparing to launch another daily in his hometown, Newspaper Innovation reported Thursday.

In 1993, the Vail Daily was sold to Swift newspapers, however, Pavelich has said he is not content with situation of the paper now.

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Roger Alton, formerly the editor of The Observer, will on Thursday be appointed editor of The Independent, the Financial Times reported Thursday.

This change is being made as part of a rearrangement of management in an attempt to stem losses at the flagship newspaper owned by Anthony O'Reilly's Independent News & Media.

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U.S. newspaper sites outperform other local publishers in local online revenue, according to a survey by Borrell Associates.

The survey of 3,000 U.S. local Web publishers found that newspaper sites made up 26.9 percent of total local online ad dollars. It also predicted big gains particularly in spending on online video in 2008.

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Data revenues at U.S. mobile service providers boosted to US$23 billion last year, and accounted for 17 percent of all mobile revenues, according to the data from CTIA.

Compared to 2006, total revenues marked a 53 percent increase last year.

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Online newspapers are helping to stem the drop in U.S. readership, according to the Biennial News Consumptions Survey 2006 by Pew Research Center.

In 1994, 58 percent of the survey respondents said they read the paper the day before. The readership continued to drop until 2006, with only 40 percent readership left.

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