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The Wall Street Journal has announced a growth in its daily circulation with figures presented to the Audit Bureau of Circulations showing a 0.6% increase compared to the same six month period last year.  

The modest rise means the paper is now the top circulating U.S daily after previous number one, USA Today, recorded its worst year ever with a 17 percent drop in circulation.

Reuters reports that the success of The Wall Street Journal is a result of 'ongoing investment that Dow Jones has made in the franchise during the past few years. This growth combined with increased subscription rates has led to an increase in total circulation revenue of 10.1% to the Journal year-over-year.'

In May of this year, Reuters launched its first free-of-charge BlackBerry and iPhone news applications in the U.K, U.S, Canada and India. Those in the industry recognise that for news publishers, mobile technology provides a potential big-time opportunity, particularly for phone applications, to generate revenue. Whilst Reuter's senior vice president and head of consumer publishing, Alisa Bowen, notes that mobiles are now highly customisable devices, she also insists that charging a premium for users to have access to their online content isn't on the agenda.

The news comes following The Wall Street Journal 's announcement yesterday that it is to start charging for its mobile application in the next few months.

But has Reuters passed up on a money-spinner? Steve Outing at Editor and Publisher is of the opinion that although consumers are not frequently inclined to pay for news stories on mobile phones or online via micro-payments or subscriptions - they will buy applications.

When the Washington Post launched its first mobile site, it did little more than convert Web material to a format that makes it accessible on a mobile device. Now, the juggernaut is giving their mobile web design a sleeker outfit in order to match its competition, reports the Wall Street Journal.

By the time WaPo launched its mobile site in 2007, the New York Times already had a cool 10 million page views by the end of the same year. Business broadsheet, the Financial Times similarly had some revamping to do. Their iPhone application, which landed this month, allows iPhone users to access the site's bits directly from the button shortcut rather than going through a middleman mobile web browser.

The I Want Media's The Future of Media: 2009 discussion held at NYU yesterday gathered the most renowned names in the new media world to present their visions of the future of information media.  Present were Gawker chief Nick Denton, Jack Dorsey, cofounder and chairman of Twitter; Bonnie Fuller, creator of Us Weekly and founder of Bonnie Fuller Media; Alan Murray, deputy managing editor and executive editor online at The Wall Street Journal; and Craig Newmark, founder of Craigslist.

Perhaps of most interest to have come from the exchange were Denton's statements about journalists' attitudes, their inaptitude for internet blogging and the pay wall debate which is currently dominating news provision dialogue.

The Wilmington News Journal and its sister paper, the Star Republican announced a series of changes that will take place at both of the papers.

Beginning November 10, the News Journal will no longer print a Monday edition.  News from Monday will be on the paper's website.

There have been recent talks about freeing WSJ.com, just as The New York Times is also deciding whether to drop its TimesSelect service. But would this be a worthwhile business strategy for the world’s largest paid-for subscription service?