"The most recent–and seemingly unlikely–election coverage team is CBS News and Digg, … Under the partnership, political stories from Digg will appear in a box on the politics section of CBSNews.com."

"ABC News and Facebook have formally established a partnership — the site’s first with a news organization — that allows Facebook members to electronically follow ABC reporters, view reports and video and participate in polls and debates…"

"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 first audit of an Irish newspaper’s online readers in expected early next year, while some online newspaper and magazine sites in Britain are reporting daily numbers for their users."

"After two decades of cutbacks in international bureaus, ABC News is bucking the trend by creating one-person operations that will dramatically boost its coverage in Africa, India and elsewhere."

Ian Reeves explains the ABC figures: "the total circulation figure of the [top] 100 [actively purchased magazines] is just 24 million - that’s a full 20 per cent down."

"The Audit Bureau of Circulations has launched an investigation into how magazine circulation data became publicly available a week before it was due for official release."

"Metro is set to launch in Dundee and Perth in the next few weeks as part of a major expansion around the UK. … [T]otal daily distribution of the free paper is set to rise from 1.1 million to 1.35m copies as every UK edition is beefed up."

‘It’s all about digital now,’ says one [magazine company executive]. ‘This ABC period marks a sea change in how magazine companies attend to digital.’

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

"I think the time has come for newspapers to abandon the ABC. … [unlike print metrics, web metrics] changes when the content producers want it to, is inconsistent from one metrics supplier to another, and adapts as consumer habits change."

Good grief: "Representatives of ABC News said yesterday that they had lost to NBC for the first interview with Paris Hilton after her release from jail next week because ABC was unwilling to make a “high six-figure deal” with Ms. Hilton’s family."

"USA Today … will share news, blogs and other content related to the 2008 U.S. presidential election with ABC News."