UK's biggest selling newspaper
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ENGLAND run machine Kevin Pietersen returned home yesterday outlining his determination to make the Test team to face Australia this summer.
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Journal Register Company (NYSE:JRC) today announced that it has  completed the sale of its three daily community newspapers and its  weekly newspaper group in Rhode Island to R.I.S.N. Operations Inc. The  final sales price was approximately $8.3 million in cash, including  working capital.
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Editor and Publisher - NEW YORK Newspapers are continuing to gain more readers through their Web sites said the Newspaper Association of America today.
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Online advertising spending in Britain  surged 40.3 percent to 917.2 million pounds ($1.72 billion) in  the first half of 2006 compared to last year, giving it a  market share of 10.5 percent, new data showed on Wednesday.
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LagardÃ¨re, FranceÂs largest publisher, agreed to buy Sportfive for 865 million euros ($1.1 billion) to enter the market for soccer and rugby broadcasting. Sportfive, whose main shareholders are Advent International, Goldman Sachs, Capital Partners and the RTL Group, is expected to have 2006 sales of 526 million euros, LagardÃ¨re said. The purchase price includes debt. LagardÃ¨re, formerly one of FranceÂs biggest military contractors, has purchased media companies to diversify from the aerospace industry. Sportfive, which has headquarters in Paris and Hamburg, is EuropeÂs largest soccer marketing and media rights company.
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Pearson, the publisher of The Financial Times and the owner of Penguin books, said that profit fell 29 percent in 2006, partly as a result of a gain in the prior year on the sale of its stake in a Spanish newspaper. Income for the company, which also has a 50 percent stake in The Economist magazine and owns the French newspaper Les Ãchos, dropped to Â£446 million ($875.4 million) from Â£624 million. Revenue rose 8 percent, to Â£4.4 billion ($8.7 billion) as 8 percent sales growth at the companyâs schools publishing business in the United States outweighed slower sales at Penguin. Ad revenue was up 9 percent at The Financial Times. Excluding one-time items, profit rose 38 percent, to Â£455 million ($893.6 million) in 2006.
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Womenâs Wear Daily has become the latest newspaper to sell advertising space on its front page.
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These are some of the leading stories in Hong Kong newspapers on Monday. Reuters has not verified these stories and does not vouch for their accuracy.
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LONDON - Hollinger International is selling the Jerusalem Post newspaper and the Jerusalem Report magazine to Israeli media owner Mirkaei Tikshoret for $13.2m (Â£7.1m).
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but the UK has emerged as the company&#39;s strongest European market, reports the Sunday Times. The Sunday Times Business section yesterday published
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Global media giant News Corp announced that it will spend 600 million pounds (1.03 billion dollars) over the next five years on new printing plants for its newspapers in Britain.
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Reuters, the news and financial information provider, reported a 4.4-percent drop in core subscription revenue to 528 million pounds (759 million euros, 947 million dollars) during the third quarter compared to the same period last year.
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McLEAN, Va. -- Gannett Co., the nation's largest newspaper publisher, said Friday its fourth-quarter earnings rose 3 percent, as record levels of political advertising on its broadcast outlets helped offset higher newspaper costs.
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Business & money: Â· Shares hit record high after Â£732m market raidÂ· Emirate royal family is now biggest shareholder
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The Sun tabloid, Britain&#39;s best-selling daily, made an impassioned plea Monday for a referendum on the new EU treaty in a front-page editorial ahead of a major speech by Prime Minister Gordon Brown.
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Australian media empire Publishing &amp; Broadcasting Ltd. reported Thursday a 75 percent jump in earnings for the fiscal year ending June 30, thanks to a strong economy and a rebound in advertising revenue.
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216 years of publishing history ends on Monday, as The Times switches to a tabloid format. The decision to go fully compact - after trials in London and around the country - was made after sales of the newspaper jumped 4.5 per cent.