Commenter rips into Gavin O’Reilly’s view about the health of newspapers: "It’s fine for aul Gavin, investing in rising markets in India and Africa, but I don’t work there and I don’t invest there."

"[The US newspaper] industry has lost about 10% of circulation overall in the past four years among the leading papers, some have bled much more than others during the same period, according to an E&P analysis of data from the Audit Bureau of Circulations

Euphemisms for media correspondents, a masterclass: "Across the board, circulations of paid-for newspapers continued their slow adjustment to the internet age."

"Trinity Mirror recorded 0.1 per cent advertising growth in the ten months to October…. Trinity’s data included all the group’s iinternet revenues, which account for 5 per cent of continuing operations … "

"I think we are the only newspaper that overtly markets itself as paper, online and mobile. It’s the combination of those three things which is the really important result. We do not look in isolation around newspaper circulation; that’s just one element.

"The circulation declines of American newspapers continued to accelerate over the spring and summer, as sales across the industry fell almost 3 percent compared with the year before, according to figures released today."

"The start of the freesheet wars in London between News International’s thelondonpaper and Associated’s London Lite has triggered a major rethink at the once-monopolistic Evening Standard…."

"[B]uilding a great local web site was is in no-way dependent on putting the entire paper online. The flip side, of course, is that it’s hard not to rely on that daily dump of shovelware if your newsroom isn’t engaged in your web operation."

"Driven by marketing and delivery costs and pressure from advertisers, many [US] papers have decided certain readers are not worth the expense involved in finding, serving and keeping them."

Peter Preston on how Eros card could be a step towards UK newspaper publishers finally getting a better understanding of who reads their newspapers. The current "two-stage distribution system [is] notably short on useful data".

"Associated Newspapers is to increase the distribution of its free newspaper Metro by 250,000 copies from the beginning of October."

Simon Waldman: "Right now, if you want to add up daily readers and revenues, print wins by a long mile. But every piece of research tells the same story. People are spending less time with newspapers and more time online. The trend is, of course, particul

"MEN Media is forecasting that the latest six monthly ABC figures to be published in August will show the paper’s total circulation remaining constant at around 180,000, with paid for sales falling by just 6,000 since last December."

The US newspaper ABC will for the first time include online audience estimates this autumn.