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As the latest news from Tuesday's earthquake outside of Port-au-Price trickles in to the mainland, newspapers have faced many of the same logistical challenges as rescue crews as they struggle to cover the scale of destruction wreaked on this poverty-stricken Caribbean nation.

With only one foreign correspondent based in Haiti, Jonathan M. Katz of the AP, many major newspapers like the Wall Street Journal struggled initially to get their journalists on the ground. The 7.0 magnitude earthquake had destroyed what little infrastructure Haiti already had, razing government buildings, hospitals, and homes. Telecommunications and power lines have been unreliable if present at all.

The website of French business daily La Tribune has opened the near-totality of its online archives, reported Rue89 and AFP.

The only remaining paid-for articles are those of the current day's print edition and the nine previous ones.

"Globally, we made a little revenue with the sale of our archived content, but relatively little. Since we have a model of a free online site paid by advertising, we hope that the increase in the number of page views will translate into a mechanical increase of ad revenue," said Olivier Provost, Editor-in-Chief of latribune.fr.

La Tribune's move comes as a growing number of newspaper websites move to a free online model (or rather, a model paid by advertisers rather than by users directly) and open up their archives.

Even the monthly publication The Atlantic opened its paywall in January. Last year, nytimes.com removed its TimesSelect paywall, and since then user traffic has soared, further putting into question the viability of the online paid-for model. Yet some papers have gone the other route, such as the Guardian and Observer, or the Wall Street Journal, which has kept its paywall despite initial talks to remove it.

La Tribune was acquired from luxury group LVMH by NextRadio TV chief Alain Weill at the beginning of the year.

Source: AFP Mail

Brass Tacks Design critiques the New York Times' website redesign saying that it's "better but its not enough." Why? Because it still strays too far from the golden rules of print newspaper design. Brass Tacks shows screen captures of several exemplary sites which maximize content and advertiser impact. The underlying theme: simplicity.

The Wall Street Journal yesterday announced that it will redesign its U.S. edition in the coming months. The changes come with the goal to reduce production costs, improve distribution and make the paper more readable. Most notably, the paper is going to reduce the width of the paper's pages from 15 inches to 12 inches, while the hight will stay the same. The new format, planned to start in January 2007, requires retrofitting at 17 printing press sites, which is likely to cost about $43 million. However, the smaller page-size is expected to cut operating expenses by about $18 million a year. The new format also brings the paper's size closer to many other U.S. broadsheets, therefore "giving the newspaper flexibility to contract out its printing in certain locations that are hard to reach from existing printing plants".

The Wall Street Journal yesterday announced that it will redesign its U.S. edition in the coming months. The changes come with the goal to reduce production costs, improve distribution and make the paper more readable. Most notably, the paper is going to reduce the width of the paper's pages from 15 inches to 12 inches, while the hight will stay the same. The new format, planned to start in January 2007, requires retrofitting at 17 printing press sites, which is likely to cost about $43 million. However, the smaller page-size is expected to cut operating expenses by about $18 million a year. The new format also brings the paper's size closer to many other U.S. broadsheets, therefore "giving the newspaper flexibility to contract out its printing in certain locations that are hard to reach from existing printing plants".

Recent news posted by Susan Mernit on February 23 about the Associated Press adding RSS to their website has caused a minor tremor in the news industry. If news feeds are now directly available from AP, what effect will this have on the brands for which they provide content? AP has emphasized that the company is not trying to launch its own branded news site, rather that their RSS feeds will link to their members' news sites through their service called Custom News. Rafat Ali interviewed Jim Kennedy, VP/Director of Strategic Planning at AP, who added that soon, clicks on AP's RSS will be "geo-targeted," meaning that AP's RSS clicks will be directed to a member relative to the reader's location. Thus, where at first glance it would appear that AP could possibly be attempting to detach itself from its members by providing its own branded news feeds, its RSS strategy will actually result in not only reinforcing the AP brand, but also the brand of its plethora of members. In turn, this will also strengthen the relationship between AP and its members. On the other hand, UK based Reuters seems to be taking a different route in the United States by trying to stimulate its online, mobile and interactive-television businesses.

Recent news posted by Susan Mernit on February 23 about the Associated Press adding RSS to their website has caused a minor tremor in the news industry. If news feeds are now directly available from AP, what effect will this have on the brands for which they provide content? AP has emphasized that the company is not trying to launch its own branded news site, rather that their RSS feeds will link to their members' news sites through their service called Custom News. Rafat Ali interviewed Jim Kennedy, VP/Director of Strategic Planning at AP, who added that soon, clicks on AP's RSS will be "geo-targeted," meaning that AP's RSS clicks will be directed to a member relative to the reader's location. Thus, where at first glance it would appear that AP could possibly be attempting to detach itself from its members by providing its own branded news feeds, its RSS strategy will actually result in not only reinforcing the AP brand, but also the brand of its plethora of members. In turn, this will also strengthen the relationship between AP and its members. On the other hand, UK based Reuters seems to be taking a different route in the United States by trying to stimulate its online, mobile and interactive-television businesses.