Thomson employees voted unanimously to hold a strike ballot, after management at the financial news wire would not agree to use voluntary instead of compulsory redundancies as they look to make job cuts, the Guardian reported Friday.

Thomson recently merged with rival news agency Reuters.

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Media Wales will not go through with its plan to launch a Welsh-language news Web site, HoldtheFrontPage.co.uk reported Friday.

Media Wales publishes the Western Mail and other south Wales titles.

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The Glasgow-based Sunday Post will be printed in Madrid beginning this weekend, in hopes of improving sales overseas of just more than 500 copies, allmediaSCOTLAND.com reported Friday.

Copies will be available to people on the coasts of Spain, as well as the Balearic Islands, the Algarve and Tenerlife.

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In a struggling economy, there have been 290,671 job cuts in U.S. during the first four months of this year, up nine percent from the same period last year.

Media industry layoffs, however, jumped to 57 percent more than last year at 7,949 for the four-month period, according to a survey from global outplacement consultancy Challenger, Gray & Christmas. The 2007 full-year layoffs numbered 11,700 in the industry.

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New media became increasingly necessary to Americans from 2002 to 2007, while traditional media forms lost ground, according to a Pew Internet and American Life Project survey.

According to the latest survey in 2007, more than half of respondents said they could not live without their mobile phones, followed by 45 percent who say they couldn't give up the Internet. The Blackberry/wireless e-mail devices category, though only picked by 36 percent, has grown six-fold since 2002.

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