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The Naples News in Florida is often hailed as one of the United States' most forward-looking papers. With a newsroom that works first for its website, then the paper edition, and a daily local-news webcast which is also broadcast on television, it could even be said that the Naples News is one of the first papers to not consider itself just a newspaper. Editor Phil Lewis recently wrote an editorial documenting the evolution of the paper. 

According to BBC Monitoring, Pro-Putin oligarch Vladimir Potanin, owner of the Prof-Media holding who in the past focused on ownership of print media and avoided TV and the internet, is reversing strategy, selling off his main newspapers and buying TV channels and websites.

Since early 2006, he has bought three small TV channels and in late October bought the big Rambler Media company, which owns the prominent internet news site Lenta.ru and the popular search engine Rambler.ru.

The Guardian's Julia Day reports that community websites showcasing user generated content are currently the fastest growing internet brands in the UK, contrary to the popular belief that the most successful are Google and Yahoo. These sites include advice on how to use the internet, on setting up websites and blogs, shopping guides, and community chat and photo networks.

Although it is well documented that newspaper circulations have been declining for years, a slide that does not seem will reverse itself soon, it has been shown that newspaper website usage has been rising rapidly. But does their digital readership make up for the loss in print? Will sustainable online financial models emerge? Will the Internet change newspaper journalism?

Last month in Moscow, the Russian Guild of Press Publishers held the First Russian Publishers Conference.  During the Press Freedom Seminar, President of the World Editors Forum and Saturday Editor of The Times (London), George Brock, gave a talk discussing the freedom of the press in Russia, whose text is posted below.