The Chicago Tribune reports that Gannett Co., Tribune Co., Hearst Corp., Media News Group and Cox Newspapers are in talks to form a common ad sales force to offer national advertisers "one-stop shopping" for online ad space in seven of the top 10 U.S. media markets. The consortium would both overlap with and compete against Yahoo's national ad network.

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The Audit Bureau of Circulations, the Newspaper Association of America, and Scarborough Research have developed Audience-FAX, a new measurement that combines newspaper circulation, readership and online audience, Editor & Publisher reports. In a conference call, industry leaders said that the new metric calls attention to the "full reach" of newspapers at a time when much of the media attention is on the decline of newspaper sales. More than 200 daily papers are participating in the Audience-FAX program.

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The AAN member bi-weekly has been named the recipient of this year's Molly Ivins "Give 'Em Hell" Award from the Project, which promotes racial, social, and economic justice through education and litigation. "[The Observer] covers stories crucial to the public interest and provokes dialog that promotes democratic participation and open government, in pursuit of a vision of Texas where education, justice, and material progress are available to all," the Project says in a statement.

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