Newsquest rolls out new regional newspaper websites and now requires registration for its sites’ famously, er, robust comments sections.

"With the exception of Johnston Press, most of the big newspaper shares - on both sides of the pond - have actually outperformed Google over the past three months."

"Here on the west coast of America, where millions upon millions of dollars have been spent promoting Beckham as the superstar saviour of soccer, the decision to omit him from the England squad was recorded by a single paragraph in USA Today."

"The papers’ 52 employees were given severance packages, but only one, Kerry Duke, the special projects editor, was offered another job within the company — as managing editor of a successor Web site called Kypost.com, to which will cover Northern Ken

"With less than three weeks to go before it shuts its doors for good, life at The Cincinnati Post is not all doom and gloom. … "

"Malvern Gazette reporter Tarik Al Rasheed was among the top trainee journalists in the country in this year’s professional journalism examinations."

Rich Gordon: "data should be a driving force in online journalism, for at least the following reasons…"

"The [NUJ] chapel at The Press in York has reached an agreement with management over how much news content journalists should upload to the website, following a four-month boycott."

"RUNCORNANDWIDNESWORLD has been named website of the year at the Newsquest Cheshire/Merseyside annual awards." That’s "Runcorn and Widnes World".

"Gannett Co. said Monday it joined with Tribune Co. to publish and syndicate a weekly edition of USA Today outside the United States. … the eight-page broadsheet called USA Today Abroad … will contain primarily feature stories from the previous week’

"Amid a steady decline in newspaper advertising and circulation, building communities of readers through the online experience is essential, said Jim Brady, vice president and executive editor of washingtonpost.com."