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The number of women reading newspapers has steadily grown over the years. They have become "the fastest-growing, most advertised attractive audience in town." A study from ComScore noted, "They're embracing the internet in a way that men are not." A new survey by Pew Research Center's Project for Excellence in Journalism shows that they also make up the majority of readers for 8 out of the top 25 news sites.

The 8 websites are (in order from highest percentage to lowest) Topix, Aol News, Examiner.com, Bing News, Yahoo, MSNBC, ABC News, and Huffington Post. Poynter posted a chart of the numbers here.

The Daily Mail's website Mail Online continues to attract more and more visitors: the latest ABCe figures show that the paper had just over 56 million browsers in January, more than 3 million a day. This puts it up 56% on last year, reported Press Gazette.

Second in line is the Guardian, with 39.5 million, and behind that the Telegraph with 32 million. The Guardian is up 10.1% compared to last year and the Telegraph up just 0.7%. 

On Monday, Yahoo! announced the forthcoming release of the first edition of its "Yahoo! Style Guide: The Ultimate Sourcebook for Writing, Editing, and Creating Content for the Digital World".  The 528 paperback tome will cover stylistic suggestions for a variety of digital formats and issues running the gamut from mobile content publishing tips to search engine optimization techniques.  The guide also promises to address the traditional topics of grammar, punctuation and sourcing as applicable to web-based publications.  A sampling of basic articles (e.g. an introduction to HTML code) and resources (e.g. a  word-list for tech jargon) has already been made available on the guide's free companion website.

The Wall Street Journal's Indian homepage now hosts a new site offering a wealth of information about rural India.  The site, developed in conjunction with India Knowledge@Wharton, part of the Wharton School's online business journal, contains reporting, analysis, interviews, commentary and video. It will combine new and exclusive features with an archive of previously released material.  

"Rural India's economy is thriving despite the worldwide economic downturn, and many of India's and the world's largest companies are just beginning to realize the market's potential," said Paul Beckett, The Wall Street Journal's South Asia bureau chief. "Nevertheless, the benefits of India's economic boom have been late in arriving there, and weak governance and a lack of access to basic services remain serious problems. Business decision- makers and investors in the country and overseas require accurate, timely and independent coverage of rural India's development."

Success of the Web? Try Newspaper Values With a New Twist
Caroline Little, Adviser to Guardian News & Media and former CEO and publisher of Washington Post/Newsweek Interactives, United States:

"Keep one foot rooted in the core journalism values of the core product, and one that happens to be delivering the most revenue, and with the other, stretch as far as possible to try new things in this new medium."

"The news websites share the same journalistic values as the newspapers, but the web folks also are working in a medium that's indisputably different, one that requires trying new things and sometimes going down in flames," she said. "Fear of failure can be debilitating. All we have to lose by being too conservative is everything."

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.