Editorial staff at The New York Times are bracing themselves for layoffs in the next 10 days, the New York Post reported Friday.

About 50 unionized journalists have accepted buyout offers, and another 20 non-union journalists have done the same. This means “the ax could fall on as many as 30 editorial people in the company's first-ever mass firing of journalists in its 156-year history,” the Post reported.

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Madison, Wis.-based The Capital Times will print its final daily newspaper Saturday, and next week will begin publishing two tabloids a week, the Associated Press reported Monday.

The 90-year-old afternoon daily will use the paper's online version for daily coverage, and has shrunk staff numbers.

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The new free Dutch business daily, De Financiële Pers, was a two-day test run, an editorial in Friday's edition stated, Newspaper Innovation reported Friday,

De Financiële Pers is a business spin-off of free daily De Pers, which De Pers launched in a joint venture with business platform IEX.nl.

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The Evening Leader will carry out trials with micro-blogging platform Twitter, to cover local football in real time on its Web site, Journalism.co.uk reported Friday.

This Saturday, the UK newspaper will use Twitter to issue 140 character live updates from Wrexham FC’s home match against Accrington Stanley.

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Trinity Mirror will shut down eight loss-making free weekly newspapers in Derby and Peterborough, including the Peterborough Herald and Post and the Derby Trader, the Guardian reported Thursday.

When the company’s offices in Derby and Peterborough close, 23 employees, including six in editorial, will be made redundant.

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Web and radio are the two most accessed media at work, while TV the dominant at home, according to the 2005 Middletown Media Study II conducted in U.S. by Online Publishers Association.

In the United States, Web and radio are the two media most accessed at work, with a reach of 50 to 70 percent and 40 to 60 percent, respectively.

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E.W. Scripps Co announced its first-quarter profit is up 23 percent, with revenue gains at its cable-television and Internet units, Bloomberg reported Friday.

However, the company’s newspaper units marked a revenue drop in this period.

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