Tuesday 22 April 2008

Dainik Bhaskar expands in Hindi belt

Dainik Bhaskar has launched six editions in India, exchange4media reported Tuesday from Mumbai.

The new editions were out Saturday in Chhatisgarh, Bhilai, Jagdalpur and Ratlam in Madhya Pradesh, Shimla in Himachal Pradesh and Pali and Nagpur in Rajasthan.

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FT plans magazine in China

Financial Times Group announced it is planning to launch a magazine in China, a move to expand the Financial Times brand into “fast-growing markets,” The Wall Street Journal reported Tuesday.

The magazine will target China's increasing number of affluent people in the business world, stated the London-based Pearson Plc, owner of the Financial Times Group.

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Mirror Group sites to join ABCe

Mirror Group Newspapers is leaning towards becoming the most recent newspaper group to publish its Internet traffic data within the Audit Bureau of Circulations Electronic (ABCe) figures, the Guardian reported Tuesday.

On Thursday, MGN Web sites will be included in ABCe monthly traffic figures for the first time.

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Poland’s Metro is third best-read

Agora-owned Metro is Poland's third most read newspaper, following another Agora title, Gazeta Wyborcza, and Axel Springer-owned Fakt, Newspaper Innovation reported Tuesday.

Metro's weekly readership, from September 2007 through February 2008, was 2.4 million (8 percent).

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Mail raises cover price by 5 pence

The Daily Mail increased its price to 50 pence Monday, for which rival Daily Express accused it of "staggering hypocrisy," the Guardian reported.

The company said its price increase was due to higher fuel charges, printing, production and distribution costs, according to the Guardian report.

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Chairman: New York Times is not for sale

New York Times Co. Chairman Arthur Sulzberger Jr. on Tuesday disputed media reports of a possible sale.

"This company is not for sale," he told shareholders, calling recent media reports "ill informed", Reuters reported.

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