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		<title>European Free-sheets Closing Down</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Dato, the first free-sheet to close down in Denmark is followed by similar German shut-downs. Germany Business News, the free business paper by Holtzbrinck (Handelsblatt) is published this week for the last time. The paper started in August 2006 as the successor of the cheap tabloid News, and had a circulation of 110,000 in the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>21 things to improve news sites</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Matthew Buckland, blogging at WAN South Africa, posted this list:
1.Focus on local content and news
2.Stress immediacy
3.User-generated content
4.User comments
5.User rankings and networking on your site
6.Embrace RSS
7.Use other web services to promote your site (eg: SecondLife, MySpace, Facebook)
8.Facilitate blogging of content for readers (and try not to get your pants sued off)
9.Homogenous branding
10.Complement the print edition (I [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.newspaperindex.com/2007/06/12/21-things-to-improve-news-sites/</link>
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		<title>Global Newspapers Circulation increased 4.61 percent in 2006</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Newspaper circulations world-wide rose 2.3 percent in 2006 while newspaper advertising revenues showed substantial gains, the World Association of Newspapers announced today.
WAN said global newspaper sales were up +2.3 percent over the year, and had increased +9.48 percent over the past five years. Newspaper sales increased year-on-year in Asia, Europe, Africa, South America, with North [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.newspaperindex.com/2007/06/04/global-newspapers-circulation-increased-461-percent-in-2006/</link>
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		<title>Dutch kidney giveaway TV show was a hoax</title>
		<description><![CDATA[A Dutch TV show featuring a dying woman deciding which of three candidates would receive her kidney turned out to be a hoax Friday, in a stunt to highlight the need for more organ donors. In the last minutes of the live show which had attracted worldwide attention, right before the fake donor was about [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.newspaperindex.com/2007/06/04/dutch-kidney-giveaway-tv-show-was-a-hoax/</link>
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		<title>Dispute over European medical TV-channel</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Four of the world&#8217;s biggest pharmaceutical companies are considering launching an interactive TV channel in Europe. The prospect has caused outrage among some consumer groups, because advertising prescription drugs directly to patients in the European Union is illegal. They warn that the pharmaceutical giants will find it impossible to give unbiased advice about their own [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.newspaperindex.com/2007/06/03/dispute-over-european-medical-tv-channel/</link>
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