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Business Week's report that Amazon planned to launch a new version of its eponymous Kindle e-book reader have proved wide of the mark.

Dow Jones Newswire report that Amazon spokesman Craig Berman said on the issue: "Don't believe everything you read -- there's a lot of rumor and speculation out there about Kindle. One thing I can tell you for sure is that there will be no new version of Kindle this year. A new version will come out sometime next year at the earliest."

Source: Guardian.co.uk

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Sony Reader muscles into Kindle territory

Along with launching a new lifestyle magazine (WSJ.), News International are pushing through a WSJ.com relaunch, which will debut on September 16.

The International Herald Tribune report, Robert Thomson, managing editor of the Journal, said the new site will sport "lots of wonderful gizmos" and a new design providing easier access to free content.

Thomson went on to say that the Journal will likely introduce additional magazines along with other features to boost its Saturday edition. News International reportedly believes this is an ideal way to reach its readers in a more relaxed environment -- and with it, additional direct-to-consumer advertising to offset reductions in business-to-business placements.

Source: International Herald Tribune

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US: Wall Street Journal unveils magazine supplement, WSJ.

The Chicago Tribune is undergoing a radical overhaul which is scheduled to be launched in a matter of weeks.  Prototypes of the new pages and sections for this redeign were posted in Tribune Tower for review by employees on Thursday.

Sources told the Chicago Sun-Times that the space devoted to news in the Chicago Tribune will be significantly reduced, with the paper's front section including national and international news, the local and business reports and the editorial page. The Tribune publishes freestanding sections for metro and business news currently.

The redesigned paper is set to have a three-section format, Tribune employees reported to the local rival newspaper. The newspaper's other sections would be for features, with a working title of Live, and Sports. According to the prototype, the pages for local news will be labeled Chicagoland, a term Tribune editors use to define the city and its suburbs.

The Chicago Tribune, is aiming to launch the revamp by the end of September.

The Tribune itself has refused to comment on the leaked information. The sources that spoke to the Chicago Sun-Times reported that the pages they saw were works in progress, with some section having several versions up for review. The recently leaked idea that the newspaper would be renamed The Trib has reportedly been abandoned.

Source: Chicago Sun-Tribune via IFRA Executive News

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US: Chicago Tribune prototype redesign leaked

The New York Observer decides to launch a new fashion publication, following in the footsteps of the Wall Street Journal, which recently launched a magazine supplement. The semiannual Observer Style will be released on November 16 and would focus on the local fashion scene.

Mini Dairio, a free daily from Spain, announces a complete makeover that features a more modern title with consistent use of color throughout the entire paper.

The Kyiv Post website is undergoing a redesign scheduled to be launched on September 7. The new site will incorporate online news resources and will contain all the content of the print edition.


Brian Bonner, chief editor of the Kyiv Post, said that the redesigned site will contain more news and content than is possible in the print version.

Bonner went on to report that Kyiv Post readers can expect a redesigned print copy of the newspaper this month. It will contain more pages for news and entertainment coverage, a separate employment section containing tips for both employees and employers.

Source: Kyiv Post via IFRA Executive News

Independent.co.uk, relaunched in January 2008, is the latest newspaper website to be brought down temporarily. The site was inaccessible from 10 am to 7 pm on Wednesday. 

The Netherlands has the greatest amount of online social network members relative to its site, reports the European Journalism Centre. 49% of the country's citizens are affiliated to social networks.

An Ipsos Mori British Business Survey 2008 (BBS) has revealed that News International's The Times, The Sunday Times and Times Online still attract more business executive readers than their rivals.

This is despite the fact that The Times has suffered a decline in its readership since the last BBS survey in 2005. The survey reports that The Times averaged 330,000 daily business readers, which is slightly down on the 339,000 it registered in 2005.

The Daily Telegraph attracts 187,000 business executive readers each day, down from 202,000 in 2005. The Times has 83,000 C-Suite readers (board level executives holding positions such as chief executive and chief financial officer), which News International say is 38% more that the Financial Times.

The Sunday Times also led the way in the Sunday market, averaging 453,000 business readers, ahead of The Sunday Telegraph on 169,000 and The Observer on 147,000.

For its web edition, Times Online attracted 269,000 business readers in the latest survey, up from 167,000 in 2005, putting it ahead of Telegraph.co.uk, which secured 155,000 readers on average per day, followed by Guardian.co.uk with 193,000 and the FT.com on 199,000.

Source: Brand Republic

20 Minutes, the French free daily, will undergo a makeover this November.

The newspaper will create more space for photos and change the font. It will not reduce the editorial content. Management wants to make the newspaper more visual, spacious, and clearer. These changes at the newspaper have been in the pipeline for sometime.

The Editor-in-Chief, Johan Hufnagel, of 20Minutes.fr was fired recently due to a difference of opinion with the Editor-In-Chief of the print edition, Corinne Sorin. 20 Minutes President France, Pierre-Jean Bozo, believes there cannot be two Editors-in-Chief at the publication.  This action provoked a five-day strike at the website editing department in August. Negotiations are ongoing at the newspaper.

Source: AFP via IFRA Executive News

Online video platform Brightcove Inc. announces a deal with OMS, Germany's Web-based sales and marketing network for regional newspaper titles, which will permit the latter to establish an online video network for member titles. Video content would be taken from international and national media outlets as well as from which is produced by local newspapers.

Sun-Times News Group reports a deal with social media firm Pluck which will offer readers discussion forums blogs, photo and video sharing as well as other community tools on SunTimes.com, PioneerLocal.com, SuburbanChicagoNews.com, SouthtownStar.com and Post-Trib.com. The venture is meant to increase audience interactivity, according to Catherine Lanucha, the group's director of content.

Google is dropping a section of the licensing agreement for the new Chrome browser after complaints.

Google reported yesterday that it is removing the section that gave the company, "a perpetual, irrevocable, worldwide, royalty-free, and non-exclusive license to reproduce, adapt, modify, translate, publish, publicly perform, publicly display and distribute any Content which you submit, post or display on or through" the new browser.

Shortly after Chrome was launched users raised concerns about the language in the copyright. Some critics said the language would allow Google to use any Web content displayed in Chrome without copyright permission.

Google has indicated that this is a misunderstanding, and that it simply borrowed language from other products, "in order to keep things simple for our users," when it inserted the copyright provision in the Chrome license.

Source: PC World

The New York Sun, printed since 2002 as a "conservative-leaning alternative" to The New York Times (NYT), announces that it may stop being published by the end of this month if it doesn't receive adequate funding, reports the European Journalism Centre (EJC).

The Society of Editors' Executive Director, Bob Satchwell, says that contempt of court legislation in the UK needs to be updated. Legislation in the UK currently restricts the reporting of trials during proceedings to prevent undue influence from the media affecting a case.

However, Journalism.co.uk's Judith Townend reports that, "even if something is reported prior to a case becoming active - namely, after an arrest has been made - the content is still 'live' and easily accessible by jurors online during a trial."

The Society of Editors (SoE) has appealed to two different Attorney-Generals for a review, and in July petitioned secretary of state for justice, Jack Straw, to start the process.

Satchwell says, "There is a need for, "a general review of contempt so everyone knows where we stand." Satchwell is concerned that the UK will get to the stage where the media will be told, "you just can't report anything", which would be "quite ridiculous". He goes on to say, ""The public has a right to know these things and the public must be kept informed. What must be done is a review of the rules."

The Editors Weblog spoke to Ian Cobain, senior reporter and investigative reporter at the Guardian, and he echoed these concerns about contempt of court legislation. Cobain says, "There are so many matters where we feel that we cannot report on them because someone is about to go on trial."

Source: Journalism.co.uk

Californian paper the Orange County Register announced that all of its daily news articles are now available through Amazon's Kindle reader.

According to the Ipsos Mori British Business Survey 2008, News International publications The Times, The Sunday Times and Times Online have more business executive readers than other daily, weekly and Web titles. The Times is ahead of its rivals, even though The Times business readership has decreased from 339,000 to 330,000 since 2005.