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The article offers news briefs of magazine issues, Web sites and research. Wal-Mart Stores Inc. has excluded 1,000 magazines' titles at it stores to increase profitability. "The Denver Business Journal" report the untruthfulness of the issue about the buying of the three free Metro International SA papers by Philip Anschutz's newspaper company. TNS Media Intelligence research reveals the 4.2% expected increase of the overall advertising finance in the U.S. for 2008.

The article reports that blogs are re-shaping newspaper publishing. Journalist-written blogs give readers more information and wider perspectives. Through blogging or commenting on the blogs, readers are able to interact with the newspaper's online site. In the process, more readers visit the site, thus bringing income to the paper through advertising sponsors. Analysts forecast that newspaper revenues from blogging shall hit $55 billion by 2010. The partnership between newspapers and blogs helps build a community by initiating conversations.