It's back to the barricades as Antony Catalano and Alex Waislitz get ready to take over the more than 160 former Fairfax regional mastheads acquired from Nine Entertainment.

Google has hit back at a News Media Alliance report which estimates the search giant's annual take from news publishers' work at $4.7 billion as inaccurate "back-of-the envelope calculations".

Publisher Nation Multimedia Group has confirmed that it will stop printing daily The Nation newspaper at the end of this month, exactly 48 years after it was first published.

Rupert Murdoch's News Corp is taking the fight to new Australian publisher Antony Catalano with a rival agricultural newspaper and online competitors for his Canberra Times and two other titles.

New Zealand's news media industry celebrated a broad range of top work at the Voyager Media Awards, with the Sunday Star-Times declared newspaper of the year and relative newcomer The Spinoff scoring for top website.

Bilingual and multiplatform, the Content-X system at The Printers Mysore in Bangalore has been implemented in just six months.

The VRM group, which is headquartered in Mainz, reaches more than one million readers and has a circulation of more than 320,000 copies.