"Made-up bullshit still drives huge traffic, if it’s marketed right."

At the foot of The Sun’s report: "Set your desktop with Prince Harry wallpaper"

"Rupert Murdoch’s British newspapers, including the News of the World, The Times and The Sun, are expected to accelerate their push into online journalism under the media mogul’s 34-year-old son, James."

"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.

In the absense of better metrics, Martin Belam has created an Google Reader readership league table for national newspapers’ RSS feeds. The Guardian’s latest news comes top, with 49,448 subscribers to its ‘UK latest’ feed

Germany’s Frankfurter Allgemeine reports from the AOP and says Fleet Street’s overseas readership online is UK papers on course for "journalistic world domination" online. Times editor Robert Thomson: "our content causes echos around the world".

Dan Sabbagh’s media column covers some Google’s Austalian general election site, Google News, Digg, Matt Drudge’s effect on Mail Online’s traffic in the US, and the slow online takeup of a print campaign in the Sun and the Telegraph. Whew.

"Our top-selling daily seems to have taken against Gordon Brown. But does it matter any more what the Sun says?"

"Remember that half the capital’s population come from overseas now … You might as well rename the News of the World the Punday Times. It’s a dated, dowdy exercise in mass incomprehension."

"Amateur Photographer magazine can exclusively reveal that today’s national newspaper stories, claiming a meerkat took photographs at Longleat Safari Park, were based on a hoax. "

The shortlist for the Association of Online Publishers Awards 2007. Trinity Mirror gets four nominations for the Evening Gazette in Teesside. MySun and MyTelegraph both nominated.

"Many of our clients" the company says candidly, "use OnePoll to trigger high impact media coverage". "Our team of national news journalists and PR experts know what the media will use".

‘News Group Digital, the digital arm of News International, is ramping up its portfolio of mobile video services with a raft of new distribution deals.’