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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Free dailies continue to lead circulation numbers in Spain, March circulation data from Spain, reported by Publicitas and PRnoticias, has revealed, Newspaper Innovation reported Wednesday.

All four free national papers are higher in circulation than the highest circulated paid paper, El Pais, which counts circulation at 460,000 copies daily, according to Newspaper Innovation.

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New York City Spanish-language daily, El Diario La Prensa, saw a 7.6 percent rise in weekday circulation, according to information released by the Audit Bureau of Circulations (ABC) Monday, Editor & Publisher reported.

Weekday sales of El Diario, published by ImpreMedia, were at 53,856 copies, up from 50,047 for the same period last year.Only three paid circulation, U.S. Spanish-language dailies are audited by ABC.

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Dainik Bhaskar has launched six editions in India, exchange4media reported Tuesday from Mumbai.

The new editions were out Saturday in Chhatisgarh, Bhilai, Jagdalpur and Ratlam in Madhya Pradesh, Shimla in Himachal Pradesh and Pali and Nagpur in Rajasthan.

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Agora-owned Metro is Poland's third most read newspaper, following another Agora title, Gazeta Wyborcza, and Axel Springer-owned Fakt, Newspaper Innovation reported Tuesday.

Metro's weekly readership, from September 2007 through February 2008, was 2.4 million (8 percent).

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Online newspapers are helping to stem the drop in U.S. readership, according to the Biennial News Consumptions Survey 2006 by Pew Research Center.

In 1994, 58 percent of the survey respondents said they read the paper the day before. The readership continued to drop until 2006, with only 40 percent readership left.

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De Telegraaf, the Amsterdam daily, continues to claim the highest circulation in the Netherlands during the last quarter of 2007. However, the paper experienced a drop in daily circulation in the fourth quarter, to 703,000 from 738, 000 copies a day, compared with the previous quarter, Thomson Financial News reported Tuesday.

In the fourth quarter of De Telegraaf’s circulation, it expanded slightly, from the 699,000 papers circulated compared with the same period in 2006, according to HOI figures.

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Revenues from newspaper circulation in Canada rose 1.5 percent to $862 million in 2006, despite a rise in free daily newspapers and increasing free online news sources, which have cut into print circulation for paid dailies, according to a Statistics Canada report out Tuesday.

A large part of the increase, however is due to a change in accounting practices, in which a number of publishing houses reported gross circulation revenues instead of circulation revenues net of distribution expenses, Canwest News Service reported Tuesday.

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Free daily newspapers are continuing to win over new readers at the cost of the traditional press in Switzerland, according to the latest market share figures, SwissInfo reported Tuesday.

From September 2006 to September 2007, 20 Minuten, the German-language free sheet, had 1.24 million readers and was the most read newspaper in Switzerland, according to circulation figures from media research institute WEMF.

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As suburban growth in Johannesburg South has been heavy, publishing group Caxton will launch another community newspaper to better serve the growing area, BizCommunity reported Thursday.

Because of high levels of development in the area, it is now too large to be serviced by just one local paper, the article stated.

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The Audit Bureau of Circulations approved initial changes to newspaper circulation rules Tuesday, the Associated Press reported.

Last November, the Audit Bureau announced the proposals, that would aim to give publishers a wider range to market newspapers in, which would end up lowering inspection costs and simplify circulation rules. The agency announced Tuesday that along with the initial approval, its board has further refined the changes.

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Free daily GASTE launched in Istanbul Feb. 11, leading the market with a print run of 500,000 overnight. The local daily, in turn, has launched its own free daily, 20 Dakik (20 Minutes), Newspaper Innovation reported Thursday.

20 Dakik's print run is not yet known.

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