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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Free afternoon daily mX, published by News Corp., is appearing to have mixed readership results over the past couple of years, Newspaper Innovation reported Thursday.

In Sydney, readership fell from 91,000 to 88,000 from April 2006 to March 2007. In Melbourne, mX readership plummeted more, from 147,000 to 131,000.

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As many Dutch paid newspapers saw circulation shrink in 2007, free dailies climbed higher in the overall readership share, Newspaper Innovation reported Tuesday.

De Telegraaf is still the most read newspaper in the Netherlands, with a circulation of 704,000, but free daily Metro bumped up to second place, increasing 11 percent, to a circulation of 517,000.

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A year after the launch of the weekend edition of RedEye, 100,000 opt-in subscribers have requested home delivery of the Chicago Tribune's free daily tabloid, Editor & Publisher reported Monday.

Readers must request the weekend edition, which is home-delivered only.

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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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The Atlanta Journal-Constitution plans to cut its distribution area from 74 to 49 counties, which will result in 62 job losses, AJC.com reported.

This move will decrease its circulation by about 2.2 percent daily and 1.9 percent Sunday, the company said Wednesday.

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