1.   -- Noranda Forest Inc. after it said it wants to sell its only newsprint mill, which is too small to compete against the large newsprint makers.

2.   Last year, the publishers had the benefit of weak demand from Asian customers, a situation that left the newsprint makers with little leverage.

3.   Bowater Inc., based in Greenville, South Carolina, is the largest newsprint maker of the United States.

4.   Bowater Inc., the largest U.S. newsprint maker, is negotiating to buy part of a South Korean newsprint mill owned by Halla.

5.   Newsprint maker Abitibi-Consolidated Inc. began informing newspaper publishers of the increase late last week, a spokesman said Monday.