The Tribune Co. has begun its overhaul, and the Orlando Sentinel is the first to exhibit the changes, with more news bytes, graphics and top news items, making it easier to skim for more hurried readers, The Wall Street Journal reported Monday.

Sam Zell, owner of Tribune, announced plans earlier this month to cut down on employee numbers, pages in its newspaper and increase its ads to content ratio to 50/50, as well as redesigning the papers to offer more easily digestible news and information, for readers on the go.

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User-generated content has its place, but it won't come near replacing professional journalists or filmmakers, Australia's BigPond boss Justine Milne told The Age Thursday.

“The idea six months ago was that the days of newspapers and journalists had ended and that this was the age of user empowerment and everything was going to be built around blogs and so on. Wrong,” he said.

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A “tipster” e-mailed Gawker, stating that the Wall Street Journal's Page One staff will be absorbed into the news desk, and Page One Editor Mike Williams would become a “roving features editor,” Gawker reported Tuesday night.

The Page One desk has been increasingly marginalised as the newspaper's front page becomes more newsy, Gawker stated.

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Göteborg, Sweden - Focusing on content, better design, info-graphic journalism, online offerings and how a newsroom is set up and run are keys to successful futures, according to the Innovations in Newspapers presentation by the Innovation International Media Consulting Group at the 61st annual World Newspaper Congress Wednesday.

“I am not worried about the future. I'm worried about the present. I'm not worried about the future of newspapers, I am worried about the future of journalism. This is the issue that is at stake right now. Not the newspaper, but the soul of our industry,” Juan Antonio Giner, founding partner and vice president of the group, and former senior research fellow at Harvard University, told the audience.

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The UK-based Daily Sport is coming out with a new look, focusing more on sports, girls, and humorous material while staying away from showbusiness-type content. In other words, the paper will go for more of a “sexy” look, instead of “sleazy,” the Guardian reported Monday.

“If it is not about sport, if it is not about girls and does not make you laugh, then don’t bother,” Barry McIlheney, editor-in-chief of parent company Sport Media Group told the Guardian.

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Singapore's redesigned Sunday Times hit newsstands Sunday, with a majority of readers giving the paper's new look positive reviews, the Straits Times reported Monday.

The newly revamped paper has more hard news, in-depth features and columns, as well as expanded Invest and Sport sections.

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Italian sports newspaper La Gazzetta dello Sport has launched English language coverage on its Web site for the first time, Press Business reported Thursday.

RCS MediaGroup announced an English-language Web site within the existing Italian-language site, La Gazzetta dello Sport.it International, will offer content entirely in English.

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As The Sun moves to full colour, it is planning a more widespread design change as well as aiming to get a move on with its competitor the Daily Mirror by being the first to implement the changes, the Guardian reported earlier this week.

The Sun is planning to introduce its makeover within the next two months. News International’s flagship daily tabloid is in the development of presenting models of suggested design changes to media buying agencies.

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The Kunming Daily, in China's southwestern province of Yunnan, published local government officials' contact information, with government permission.

The information appeared Saturday in a four-page special section, and included telephone numbers, positions and responsibilities of local government officials, as well as leading officials of the municipal Communist Party committee, Xinhua reported Monday.

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Kicking of Super Tuesday today in the United States, Metro editions around the world are using CNN content for the U.S. elections. Some content will even be exclusive for Metro, Newspaper Innovation reported Tuesday.

Super Tuesday is the day when nearly half the states in the United States participate in primary elections, selecting delegates to national conventions, where presidential candidates for each party are officially nominated.

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Metro Poland published a special issue produced by bloggers last week, Newspaper Innovation reported Monday.

Agora SA's newspaper created MetroBLOX, in cooperation with the online community site Blox.pl.

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The Daily Telegraph agreed Friday to pay “substantial” damages to movie star Nicole Kidman, for stating she preferred another fragrance to Chanel no. 5, the perfume she is paid to promote.

The Telegraph's Spy column last month stated Kidman had said her favourite perfume was Jo Malone's White Jasmine and Mint, and that she had been “dabbing it on whenever she had a moment” while promoting her new film, The Golden Compass, in London, MediaGuardian reported Friday.

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Tuesday's edition of the Dutch free daily DAG was entirely devoted to the International Day for Children's Rights, Newspaper Innovation reported Wednesday.

A group of six children chose content for the paper, selecting a story about Sinterklaas (the Dutch Santa Claus) as the newspaper's top story, and also commented on the day's news.

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The News Media Coalition has reached a temporary deal over media rights and ended its boycott of the Sri Lanka versus Australia cricket series.

The coalition also includes Agence France Presse, the Associated Press, News International, Reuters and Getty.

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NYTimes.com has expanded and redesigned its technology section, with further aggregation of top publications and more tech news updates throughout the day.

The enhanced section gives readers a better understanding of the tech industry as well as an analysis of policy issues which affect the business.

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