Telegraph Media Group’s editor-in-chief told the Google Zeitgeist conference that the arrival of multimedia reporting means he now sees CNN and the BBC as the Telegraph's main competition, Journalism.co.uk reported Friday.

Will Lewis, who spoke at the event last week, told delegates that when it comes to online, the Telegraph is looking past traditional competition on Fleet Street and concentrating on consumers’ needs.

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Media ownership rules in the United Kingdom are unfairly heavy-handed on traditional players like newspapers, while the digital companies they have to compete with, especially Google, are free to do – and grow – as they please, Trinity Mirror's chief executive has said, The Sunday Times reported.

Google and other digital rivals do not fall under the rule of the 2003 Communications Act, which has strict ownership and market share rules down to the local level, and traditional media are increasingly feeling the sting as digital companies go unregulated, while they are powerless to fight back, Sly Bailey told the House of Lords communications committee last week.

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Pay-TV mobile subscribers prefer entertainment channels over news or sports, research group Telstra has announced, The Australian reported.

In Australia, mobile entertainment channels Fox8 and The Comedy Channel are the most watched, followed by music channels Channel V2 and Channel V.

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Cablevision is the latest in a line of four owners to take over Newsday since 1995, and the newspaper's staffers and readers wonder if it will still have the independence to critique itself and its new corporate owners once the sale is complete, not to mention if the cable company is prepared to run a newspaper, The New York Times reported Monday.

“Not so long ago, Newsday belonged to the front rank of American journalism. It reached far beyond its original role as chronicler of Long Island, covered news worldwide, undertook big reporting projects and even had the audacity to take on the New York City market. But since 1995, a series of owners and managers has chipped away at Newsday’s news budget and its mission, turning it into something smaller, more local and, in many ways, less ambitious — a good regional newspaper,” states The New York Times article, by Richard Pérez-Peña.

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Telegraph.co.uk overtook guardian.co.uk to become the most popular UK national newspaper site in April, according to the most recent figures from the Audit Bureau of Circulations Electronic, the Guardian reported Thursday.

The Telegraph Media Group, the online portal for the Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph, which also carries original content, witnessed its unique user numbers increase 9.45 percent from March to 18,646,112 for April.

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The Joint Industry Committee for Web Standards (JICWEBS) will review the way data is gathered for Audit Bureau of Circulation Electronic (ABCe) audits of newspaper Web site traffic, Journalism.co.uk reported Friday.

Newspaper publishers currently are at liberty to decide on one of several technologies to be used to gather their web data.

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