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Tabloids, giveaways and other freebies boosted Dutch newspapers sales in the final quarter of last year, DutchNews.nl reported. In total, 3.4 million newspapers are sold in the Netherlands every day. Most are bought via subscription rather than kiosk sales.

Trying to locate the towns and regions that have become the focus of international attention in the breaking news events in Libya and Japan, for example, could be very difficult for many people, but as Poynter noted, some media outlets such as The Wall Street Journal, The New York Times and CNN have been making good use of maps. More on explanatory journalism, maps locating and contextualized news can be find here.

Global Voices reported what Nigerian bloggers are saying about the country's 2011 elections. .

Two more journalists were killed in Mexico, Guardian's Roy Greenslade reported (via RSF). José Luis Cerda Meléndez, 33, a programme host on the national TV channel Televisa, and Luis Emanuel Ruí­z Carrillo, 20, a reporter for the daily paper La Prensa were murdered by members of one of the drugs cartels in the northern state of Nuevo León. Greenslade (via Index on Censorship) also reported that reporter Noel Lopez Olguin has been missing since 8 March.

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