Monday 28 April 2008

Bucharest gets second free daily

Ring launched last week in Bucharest, making itself Romania's second freesheet, Media Details reported.

The free daily has a print run of 50,000 copies, and is handed out through a street delivery network and at subway stations.

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Financial Times launching Middle East edition

The Financial Times will on Tuesday launch a Middle East regional edition, which will be based in the United Arab Emirates, the Guardian reported Monday.

Every Tuesday and Thursday there will be page dedicated to the Middle East, and the new regional edition will feature a new masthead specific to the edition.

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Nebraska newspaper uses CovertLive to relaunch new design

The Grand Island (Nebraska) Independent used new live blogging tool CovertItLive in a new way – to launch the redesign of its Web site using input from readers, Journalism.co.uk reported Monday.

Following the site's relaunch, the paper began using the blogging tool to start a live question and answer session between readers and the Web staff last week.

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U.S. HDTV sales keep on growing

There are currently 28 million HDTV households in the United States, which is about one-fourth of the population, according to a Frank N. Magid Associates study conducted in March 2008.

According to eMarketer, during the 2007-2008 holiday and Super Bowl season, 5.5 million households bought their first HDTV set, while another 3 million homes added their second HDTV.

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Only 11 U.S. top newspaper sites report time spent increase in March

Only 11 of the top 30 U.S. newspaper Web sites reported an increase in the time spent per person in March, according to the latest data from Nielsen Online.

Those sites with big gains included The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal Online, Village Voice Media, the Houston Chronicle, and Politico, Editor & Publisher reported.

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