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		<title>Nieman Journalism Lab: The Newsonomics of Google Grouponomics</title>
		<link>http://www.niemanlab.org/2010/12/the-newsonomics-of-google-grouponomics/?utm_source=feedburner&#038;utm_medium=feed&#038;utm_campaign=Feed%3A+NiemanJournalismLab+%28Nieman+Journalism+Lab%29&#038;utm_content=Google+Reader</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 06 Dec 2010 13:16:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Martin Stabe</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Ken Doctor on Groupon: &#34;the remorse being expressed in newspaper buildings across America this week is the same: Why didn’t we come up with that idea? The remorse should go deeper; check out the Groupon Merchant Services page, and try to find a similar one, with similar marketing support, offered by a newspaper company online. In fact, Groupon’s whole pitch to merchants, cheerfully animated in its Grouponomics section, is a textbook lesson in selling local.&#34; <a href="http://www.niemanlab.org/2010/12/the-newsonomics-of-google-grouponomics/?utm_source=feedburner&#038;utm_medium=feed&#038;utm_campaign=Feed%3A+NiemanJournalismLab+%28Nieman+Journalism+Lab%29&#038;utm_content=Google+Reader">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[Ken Doctor on Groupon: &quot;the remorse being expressed in newspaper buildings across America this week is the same: Why didn’t we come up with that idea? The remorse should go deeper; check out the Groupon Merchant Services page, and try to find a similar one, with similar marketing support, offered by a newspaper company online. In fact, Groupon’s whole pitch to merchants, cheerfully animated in its Grouponomics section, is a textbook lesson in selling local.&quot;]]></content:encoded>
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		<title>paidContent:UK: Local Media May Have Blown Another Online Ads Opportunity</title>
		<link>http://paidcontent.co.uk/article/419-local-media-may-have-blown-another-online-ads-opportunity/</link>
		<comments>http://paidcontent.co.uk/article/419-local-media-may-have-blown-another-online-ads-opportunity/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 06 Dec 2010 13:06:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Martin Stabe</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Robert Andrews: &#34;Through daily coupon deals, place reviews and location sharing, local services is where it’s at. That should finally mean boom-time for local newspapers ... Yet look at the booming crop of next-generation local ad services and you’ll see none was devised by the operators who once had the market all to themselves. &#34; <a href="http://paidcontent.co.uk/article/419-local-media-may-have-blown-another-online-ads-opportunity/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[Robert Andrews: &quot;Through daily coupon deals, place reviews and location sharing, local services is where it’s at. That should finally mean boom-time for local newspapers ... Yet look at the booming crop of next-generation local ad services and you’ll see none was devised by the operators who once had the market all to themselves. &quot;]]></content:encoded>
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		<title>ReadWriteWeb: Facebook&#8217;s Places Feature About to Launch</title>
		<link>http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/facebooks_places_feature_about_to_launch.php?utm_source=feedburner&#038;utm_medium=feed&#038;utm_campaign=Feed%3A+readwriteweb+(ReadWriteWeb)&#038;utm_content=Google+Reader</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 11 Aug 2010 09:53:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Martin Stabe</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#34;Facebook&#39;s location service &#39;Places&#39; is speeding towards an imminent launch ... Advertising exec Dave Morgan has argued ...  that the rise of location based services, because they are so easy to use and compelling, will suck the advertising life-blood out of local newspapers, radio and journalism.&#34; <a href="http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/facebooks_places_feature_about_to_launch.php?utm_source=feedburner&#038;utm_medium=feed&#038;utm_campaign=Feed%3A+readwriteweb+(ReadWriteWeb)&#038;utm_content=Google+Reader">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[&quot;Facebook&#039;s location service &#039;Places&#039; is speeding towards an imminent launch ... Advertising exec Dave Morgan has argued ...  that the rise of location based services, because they are so easy to use and compelling, will suck the advertising life-blood out of local newspapers, radio and journalism.&quot;]]></content:encoded>
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		<title>psmith, journalist: Link to the past: why do journalists still not link to each other?</title>
		<link>http://psmithjournalist.com/2010/08/link-to-the-past-why-do-journalists-still-not-link-to-each-other/?utm_source=twitterfeed&#038;utm_medium=twitter</link>
		<comments>http://psmithjournalist.com/2010/08/link-to-the-past-why-do-journalists-still-not-link-to-each-other/?utm_source=twitterfeed&#038;utm_medium=twitter#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 05 Aug 2010 09:15:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Martin Stabe</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#34;Content management systems in some newsrooms make such a simple thing a Big Deal, something only one or two people in the organisation can do.... But for the national newspapers and magazines, in the majortiy of cases they have no such excuse and the fact is that many simply choose not to send readers elsewhere. We’re the best, our readers love us, why would anyone go anywhere else?&#34; <a href="http://psmithjournalist.com/2010/08/link-to-the-past-why-do-journalists-still-not-link-to-each-other/?utm_source=twitterfeed&#038;utm_medium=twitter">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[&quot;Content management systems in some newsrooms make such a simple thing a Big Deal, something only one or two people in the organisation can do.... But for the national newspapers and magazines, in the majortiy of cases they have no such excuse and the fact is that many simply choose not to send readers elsewhere. We’re the best, our readers love us, why would anyone go anywhere else?&quot;]]></content:encoded>
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		<title>Marc Reeves: Speaking truth to power: my speech to the CBI</title>
		<link>http://marcreeves.blogspot.com/2010/06/speaking-truth-to-power-my-speech-to.html</link>
		<comments>http://marcreeves.blogspot.com/2010/06/speaking-truth-to-power-my-speech-to.html#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 07 Jun 2010 09:29:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Martin Stabe</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[disruption]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#34;I spent the last 15 years of my newspaper career regularly attending industry conferences  in which the threats and opportunities of the internet were endlessly discussed and analysed. Pretty much everything that has come to pass was predicted, but what did the big newspaper groups do? Very little that was right, it turns out. ... Newspapers are still trying aspiring to the revenue levels of the old days ... but it’s only a problem if you’re trying to make an online revenue stream pay for a newsprint cost base.&#34; <a href="http://marcreeves.blogspot.com/2010/06/speaking-truth-to-power-my-speech-to.html">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[&quot;I spent the last 15 years of my newspaper career regularly attending industry conferences  in which the threats and opportunities of the internet were endlessly discussed and analysed. Pretty much everything that has come to pass was predicted, but what did the big newspaper groups do? Very little that was right, it turns out. ... Newspapers are still trying aspiring to the revenue levels of the old days ... but it’s only a problem if you’re trying to make an online revenue stream pay for a newsprint cost base.&quot;]]></content:encoded>
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		<title>Holdthefrontpage.co.uk: Newspaper Society calls for cap on BBC story count</title>
		<link>http://www.holdthefrontpage.co.uk/news/100601response.shtml</link>
		<comments>http://www.holdthefrontpage.co.uk/news/100601response.shtml#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 01 Jun 2010 12:40:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Martin Stabe</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#34;The Newspaper Society is calling for a strict cap on the number of stories the BBC can carry on its local websites as part of a bid to stop the corporation competing with the local press.&#34; <a href="http://www.holdthefrontpage.co.uk/news/100601response.shtml">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[&quot;The Newspaper Society is calling for a strict cap on the number of stories the BBC can carry on its local websites as part of a bid to stop the corporation competing with the local press.&quot;]]></content:encoded>
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		<title>Press Gazette: New look for Northcliffe’s This is websites</title>
		<link>http://blogs.pressgazette.co.uk/wire/6454</link>
		<comments>http://blogs.pressgazette.co.uk/wire/6454#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 27 Apr 2010 10:29:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Martin Stabe</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#34;Northcliffe Digital is in the process of revamping its &#39;This is&#39; websites over the coming two weeks.&#34; <a href="http://blogs.pressgazette.co.uk/wire/6454">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[&quot;Northcliffe Digital is in the process of revamping its &#039;This is&#039; websites over the coming two weeks.&quot;]]></content:encoded>
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		<title>paidContent:UK: Johnston’s Local Pay Site Trial Has Been ‘A Disaster’</title>
		<link>http://paidcontent.co.uk/article/419-johnstons-local-pay-site-trial-has-been-a-disaster/</link>
		<comments>http://paidcontent.co.uk/article/419-johnstons-local-pay-site-trial-has-been-a-disaster/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 01 Apr 2010 16:00:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Martin Stabe</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Robert Andrews: &#34;the conclusion is clear - charging for local news online is something of a no-go. We don’t know how successful the registration or other elements of the trial were; Johnston is keeping results in-house.&#34; <a href="http://paidcontent.co.uk/article/419-johnstons-local-pay-site-trial-has-been-a-disaster/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[Robert Andrews: &quot;the conclusion is clear - charging for local news online is something of a no-go. We don’t know how successful the registration or other elements of the trial were; Johnston is keeping results in-house.&quot;]]></content:encoded>
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		<title>Press Gazette: Johnston Press halts paywall experiment</title>
		<link>http://www.pressgazette.co.uk/story.asp?sectioncode=1&#038;storycode=45252&#038;c=1</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 31 Mar 2010 11:02:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Martin Stabe</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#34;Press Gazette understands the trial, which was originally due to run for three months, is set to come to an end next week - however two of the weeklies involved appear to have already removed digital barriers.&#34; <a href="http://www.pressgazette.co.uk/story.asp?sectioncode=1&#038;storycode=45252&#038;c=1">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[&quot;Press Gazette understands the trial, which was originally due to run for three months, is set to come to an end next week - however two of the weeklies involved appear to have already removed digital barriers.&quot;]]></content:encoded>
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		<title>Holdthefrontpage.co.uk: Johnston Press paywall experiment quietly dropped</title>
		<link>http://www.holdthefrontpage.co.uk/news/100331paywall.shtml</link>
		<comments>http://www.holdthefrontpage.co.uk/news/100331paywall.shtml#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 31 Mar 2010 10:53:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Martin Stabe</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#34;Regional publisher Johnston Press is quietly dropping its experiment in introducing paywalls to some of its local newspaper websites. ... The company has told HTFP it will be making no public comment about the trial and has even refused to confirm that it is coming to an end. &#34; <a href="http://www.holdthefrontpage.co.uk/news/100331paywall.shtml">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[&quot;Regional publisher Johnston Press is quietly dropping its experiment in introducing paywalls to some of its local newspaper websites. ... The company has told HTFP it will be making no public comment about the trial and has even refused to confirm that it is coming to an end. &quot;]]></content:encoded>
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		<title>Peterborough Today: What do you think of our new website?</title>
		<link>http://www.peterboroughtoday.co.uk/news/what_do_you_think_of_our_new_website_1_361639</link>
		<comments>http://www.peterboroughtoday.co.uk/news/what_do_you_think_of_our_new_website_1_361639#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 13 Mar 2010 14:57:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Martin Stabe</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Is this the first of the redesigned Johnston Press sites? As is typical of a post introducing a redesing, there are lots of unhappy comments. Odd to have news sponsored by the local council. <a href="http://www.peterboroughtoday.co.uk/news/what_do_you_think_of_our_new_website_1_361639">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[Is this the first of the redesigned Johnston Press sites? As is typical of a post introducing a redesing, there are lots of unhappy comments. Odd to have news sponsored by the local council.

<strong>Update:</strong> Apparently the <a href="http://www.granthamjournal.co.uk/">Grantham Journal</a> was the first site to use the new JP templates. I had missed that. Thanks to Sarah in the comments. ]]></content:encoded>
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		<title>Manchester Evening News: Locked up in February &#8217;10</title>
		<link>http://www.manchestereveningnews.co.uk/news/s/1191931_locked_up_in_february_10</link>
		<comments>http://www.manchestereveningnews.co.uk/news/s/1191931_locked_up_in_february_10#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 07 Mar 2010 22:12:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Martin Stabe</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[This is probably as close to TampaBay.com&#39;s mugshot gallery site as British law allows: &#34;The MEN is naming and shaming criminals convicted of serious offences during February. We will be publishing an online gallery of offenders who have been convicted and jailed at courts around Greater Manchester throughout the month.&#34; <a href="http://www.manchestereveningnews.co.uk/news/s/1191931_locked_up_in_february_10">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[This is probably as close to TampaBay.com&#039;s mugshot gallery site as British law allows: &quot;The MEN is naming and shaming criminals convicted of serious offences during February. We will be publishing an online gallery of offenders who have been convicted and jailed at courts around Greater Manchester throughout the month.&quot;]]></content:encoded>
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		<title>Leeds &#124; guardian.co.uk</title>
		<link>http://www.guardian.co.uk/leeds</link>
		<comments>http://www.guardian.co.uk/leeds#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 17 Feb 2010 13:10:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Martin Stabe</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Interesting: Guardian local blog site for Leeds, with integrated MySociety and Openly Local functionality, plus Google Maps, local Delicious links and a Leeds-filtered panel for the Guardian&#39;s dating site. <a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/leeds">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[Interesting: Guardian local blog site for Leeds, with integrated MySociety and Openly Local functionality, plus Google Maps, local Delicious links and a Leeds-filtered panel for the Guardian&#039;s dating site.]]></content:encoded>
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		<title>Guardian: Guardian Media Group sells regional business to Trinity Mirror</title>
		<link>http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2010/feb/09/guardian-media-group-trinity-mirror</link>
		<comments>http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2010/feb/09/guardian-media-group-trinity-mirror#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 09 Feb 2010 10:39:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Martin Stabe</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#34;The deal is worth £44.8m to Guardian Media Group, with £7.4m in cash and Trinity Mirror releasing GMG from a £37.4m print contract. ... Its Greater Manchester TV station, Channel M, and the local newspapers in Woking are not included in the deal.&#34; <a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2010/feb/09/guardian-media-group-trinity-mirror">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[&quot;The deal is worth £44.8m to Guardian Media Group, with £7.4m in cash and Trinity Mirror releasing GMG from a £37.4m print contract. ... Its Greater Manchester TV station, Channel M, and the local newspapers in Woking are not included in the deal.&quot;]]></content:encoded>
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		<title>Marc Reeves: Three things I’ll miss about newspapers – and three things I won’t</title>
		<link>http://thedrum.co.uk/blogs/marcreeves/2010/01/01/three-things-ill-miss-about-newspapers-and-three-things-i-wont/</link>
		<comments>http://thedrum.co.uk/blogs/marcreeves/2010/01/01/three-things-ill-miss-about-newspapers-and-three-things-i-wont/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 01 Jan 2010 11:01:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Martin Stabe</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Marc Reeves on the conservatism of newspaper management - and journalists: &#34;The most senior managers in most newspaper groups achieved their positions at a time when the world was certain, definable and predictable. The model was 150 years old and still going strong. Nothing – but nothing – in their experience equipped them to anticipate or create change, unless it was to manage decline and cut costs during one of the periodical and predictable cyclical economic downturns. ... The certainty that the [NUJ] would oppose any change has only helped confirm change-averse managers in their own conservatism.&#34; <a href="http://thedrum.co.uk/blogs/marcreeves/2010/01/01/three-things-ill-miss-about-newspapers-and-three-things-i-wont/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[Marc Reeves on the conservatism of newspaper management - and journalists: &quot;The most senior managers in most newspaper groups achieved their positions at a time when the world was certain, definable and predictable. The model was 150 years old and still going strong. Nothing – but nothing – in their experience equipped them to anticipate or create change, unless it was to manage decline and cut costs during one of the periodical and predictable cyclical economic downturns. ... The certainty that the [NUJ] would oppose any change has only helped confirm change-averse managers in their own conservatism.&quot;]]></content:encoded>
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		<title>Marc Reeves: Three things I’ll miss about newspapers – and three things I won’t</title>
		<link>http://thedrum.co.uk/blogs/marcreeves/2010/01/01/three-things-ill-miss-about-newspapers-and-three-things-i-wont/</link>
		<comments>http://thedrum.co.uk/blogs/marcreeves/2010/01/01/three-things-ill-miss-about-newspapers-and-three-things-i-wont/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 01 Jan 2010 11:01:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Martin Stabe</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Marc Reeves on the conservatism of newspaper management - and journalists: &#34;The most senior managers in most newspaper groups achieved their positions at a time when the world was certain, definable and predictable. The model was 150 years old and still going strong. Nothing – but nothing – in their experience equipped them to anticipate or create change, unless it was to manage decline and cut costs during one of the periodical and predictable cyclical economic downturns. ... The certainty that the [NUJ] would oppose any change has only helped confirm change-averse managers in their own conservatism.&#34; <a href="http://thedrum.co.uk/blogs/marcreeves/2010/01/01/three-things-ill-miss-about-newspapers-and-three-things-i-wont/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[Marc Reeves on the conservatism of newspaper management - and journalists: &quot;The most senior managers in most newspaper groups achieved their positions at a time when the world was certain, definable and predictable. The model was 150 years old and still going strong. Nothing – but nothing – in their experience equipped them to anticipate or create change, unless it was to manage decline and cut costs during one of the periodical and predictable cyclical economic downturns. ... The certainty that the [NUJ] would oppose any change has only helped confirm change-averse managers in their own conservatism.&quot;]]></content:encoded>
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		<title>Holdthefrontpage.co.uk: Publisher begins roll-out of new story links</title>
		<link>http://www.holdthefrontpage.co.uk/news/091130topicpages.shtml</link>
		<comments>http://www.holdthefrontpage.co.uk/news/091130topicpages.shtml#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 30 Nov 2009 12:16:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Martin Stabe</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Northcliffe begins rollout of semantic-search based topic pages at thisisbristol.co.uk. <a href="http://www.holdthefrontpage.co.uk/news/091130topicpages.shtml">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[Northcliffe begins rollout of semantic-search based topic pages at thisisbristol.co.uk.]]></content:encoded>
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		<title>BBC News: Today: Websites start charging for news</title>
		<link>http://news.bbc.co.uk/today/hi/listen_again/newsid_8385000/8385730.stm</link>
		<comments>http://news.bbc.co.uk/today/hi/listen_again/newsid_8385000/8385730.stm#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 30 Nov 2009 11:56:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Martin Stabe</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Today programme on the Johnston Press paywall experiment: &#34;Emily Bell, director of digital content at the Guardian and Roger Parry, former chair of Johnston Press, discuss how the model will work.&#34; <a href="http://news.bbc.co.uk/today/hi/listen_again/newsid_8385000/8385730.stm">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[The Today programme on the Johnston Press paywall experiment: &quot;Emily Bell, director of digital content at the Guardian and Roger Parry, former chair of Johnston Press, discuss how the model will work.&quot;]]></content:encoded>
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		<title>Comment is free: Why journalism needs paywalls</title>
		<link>http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2009/nov/30/journalism-paywall-johnston-press?showallcomments=true#end-of-comments</link>
		<comments>http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2009/nov/30/journalism-paywall-johnston-press?showallcomments=true#end-of-comments#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 30 Nov 2009 11:45:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Martin Stabe</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Tim Luckhurst: &#34;Today a newspaper innovation is launched that can help the free world&#39;s news industry to recover the prosperity it first achieved under Queen Victoria. Johnston Press, Britain&#39;s most prolific newspaper publisher with 286 titles, will place the online content of six of its local titles behind paywalls.&#34; Seriously? <a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2009/nov/30/journalism-paywall-johnston-press?showallcomments=true#end-of-comments">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[Tim Luckhurst: &quot;Today a newspaper innovation is launched that can help the free world&#039;s news industry to recover the prosperity it first achieved under Queen Victoria. Johnston Press, Britain&#039;s most prolific newspaper publisher with 286 titles, will place the online content of six of its local titles behind paywalls.&quot; Seriously?]]></content:encoded>
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		<title>HoldtheFrontPage.co.uk: Regional newspaper publisher to introduce online paywalls</title>
		<link>http://www.holdthefrontpage.co.uk/news/091125paywalls.shtml</link>
		<comments>http://www.holdthefrontpage.co.uk/news/091125paywalls.shtml#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 26 Nov 2009 05:30:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Martin Stabe</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#34;The initiative being launched next week will restrict users of selected [Johnston Press] sites from viewing content beyond the homepage without payment of a £5 three-month subscription - the equivalent of 40p per week.&#34; <a href="http://www.holdthefrontpage.co.uk/news/091125paywalls.shtml">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[&quot;The initiative being launched next week will restrict users of selected [Johnston Press] sites from viewing content beyond the homepage without payment of a £5 three-month subscription - the equivalent of 40p per week.&quot;]]></content:encoded>
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