De Telegraaf was the most popular paid daily in the Netherlands in 2006, followed by AD Algemeen Dagblad, de Volkskrant, and NRC Handelsblad, according to World Press Trends 2006.

De Telegraaf, published by Uitgeversmaatschap pij De Telegraaf, had a daily circulation of 732,000, and a readership of more than 2.1 million in 2006.

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Sun-Times Media Group on Thursday announced the total page views of all its Web properties rose to 54.6 million in the fiscal year that has just ended, according to Nielsen/Net Ratings.

The growth of 45 percent from the previous year is the first time the total page views of the combined Sun-Times News Group Web sites have exceeded 50 million, Editor & Publisher reported Wednesday.

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Newspaper cover prices in Zimbabwe increased at the beginning of July, from millions of Zimbabwean dollars to billions, The (Buea) Post reported Thursday.

The new cover price for The Herald in Zimbabwe has increased from 200 million Zimbabwean dollars to eight billion dollars. The Sunday Mail increased its cover price from 300 million dollars to 10 billion dollars.

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Newspaper shares plunged in the beginning of July, knocking US$3.9 billion off their value, according to Alan D. Mutter’s Newsosaur blog.

The total loss of newspapers’ stock value amounts to $27.7 billion since the beginning of 2008, a decline of 35.7 percent.

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Media General, Inc. on Wednesday announced the sale of two of its television stations in an attempt to relieve some of its debt, the company said in a statement.

The company announced the sale of three other stations since May, and expects total proceeds of the five stations to be between US$100 million and $105 million. After paying taxes on the sales, Media General expects to be able to reduce the debt by $60 million to $65 million.

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America Online (AOL) on Tuesday launched new sites on personal finance and photography, in order to seek ad growth opportunities with certain niche audiences, the Associated Press reported.

The new WalletPop site, expanded based on the existing site of the same name, features latest deal alerts and money-saving tips, as well as answers to reader-submitted questions. Pixcetera, on the other hand, provides information about high-quality professional photography.

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More than 80 percent of the top 30 U.S. newspaper Web sites saw an increase in unique users in June, compared to the same time last year, according to Nielsen Online data, Editor & Publisher reported Wednesday.

Of the top 30 sites, New York's Daily News Online had the largest growth, with user numbers jumping 109 percent from June 2007, to 3.8 million.

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The Honolulu Advertiser will lay off 54 workers, cutting 6.8 percent of its payroll, Editor & Publisher reported Thursday.

The cuts mean the Advertiser is joining “a growing list of newspapers nationwide that have been forced to cut jobs in the wake of a weakening economy and loss of advertising to the Internet,” the newspaper stated in a Thursday article.

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UK marketing budgets are at an all time low not seen since since Sept. 11, 2001, due to poor sales, increasing energy and resource costs and lack of trust in the economy, according to the latest Bellweather Report, Advertising Age reported Wednesday.

The report was conducted by collecting data largely through e-mails from 250 top UK marketers that represent the main business industries.

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