Sony announced that several newspapers are now available at its Reader Store for the Sony Reader. Publications such as The New York Times, The Boston Globe, The Dallas Morning News, The Denver Post and the San Jose Mercury News are now at the store. Other newspapers will soon follow including the Contra Costa Time, the Orlando Sentinel and The San Diego Union-Tribune.

Inergize Digital has signed The Columbus (Ohio) Dispatch, and its parent company's WTHR-TV Broadcast Group for the Inergize Mobile mobile app, which extends local media brands and reach with one-click content sharing via e-mail, text message, and by posting on Facebook and Twitter, delivering local content to a worldwide audience.

The New York Times Knowledge Network launched a new mobile application to help users improve their English-language skills.

Columbia Graduate School of Journalism digital media professor Sree Sreenivasan is holding a series of social media workshops during March and April.

Adicio has unveiled lower-cost Professional Editions of its classified platforms for the careers, real estate and automotive markets. As a white-label solution targeted at smaller media businesses,, they enable sites to preserve their brand and audience while adding revenue-generating features and functions.

The Wall Street Journal Digital Network unveiled its latest news broadcast "Digits" covering technology news.

The News-Gazette in Champaign, Ill., and the Statesboro (Ga.) Herald took top honors in Inland Press Association's third annual New Frontier Awards recognizing newspaper online initiatives.

Outsell Research has launched a new service to help content providers generate 10% to 15% of incremental revenue from existing subscribers.

The Newspaper Works, an Australian newspaper industry group, is out with a consumer study that no doubt will be greeted with some skepticism.

Welcome back, NYTimes.com. The newspaper Web site climbed to the No. 5 position on list of the top 10 current events sites in January after falling two slots in December, according to data provided by Nielsen Online.

A New York man faces a Feb. 22 court hearing for a threatening coment he made on the Web site of The Register Citizen in Torrington, Conn.

The online-only North Carolina newspaper, The Raleigh Telegram, embedded reporters with U.S. soldiers from Fort Bragg in Haiti resulting in a special edition project.

Since launching its hyperlocal platform for publishers last summer, Outside.in has formed partnerships with The Miami Herald, Dow Jones Local Media Group, the New York Post, the St. Louis Post-Dispatch, and Tribune Co. properties, including the Chicago Tribune, Chicago Breaking News, ChicagoNow, and Baltimore Sun.

Toronto-based Kibboko Inc. has introduced its Scout, a new release of its content-personalization system for publishers, which features a new interface and goes beyond articles to suggest books and e-books using Kibboko's patent-pending Bamboo technology.

More people are accessing local news through mobile phones -- more than 8 million readers, a 500% increase year-over-year, according to new stats from Verve Wireless.

Local online marketing company Travidia has launched a grocery-focused portal aimed at helping newspapers. The site will contain deals, recipes and editorial content.

The Chicago Tribune reached agreements to digitize the more than seven million images in its photo archive -- and to sell the original prints through a collectables dealer.

The Batavian, the online news organization headed up by former GateHouse Media executive Howard Owens, gets a nod from the Genesee County Chamber of Commerce for "Innovative Enterprise of the Year."

Fresh from celebrating its one-year anniversary, Boston.com's Your Town is expanding its cluster of hyperlocal sites to cover two additional towns, Arlington and Dedham.

A new report from the marketing software firm HubSpot looks at Twitter usage and determines that growth is slowing.