Topix.com has signed on to run comments sections and online forums for newspapers owned by U.S. publisher MediaNews Group Inc.

Owned by U.S. newspaper publishers Gannett Co. Inc., McClatchy Co. and Tribune Co., Topix began as an archive of online news, and is now a provider of online local news discussion forums.

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The Los Angeles Times Tuesday announced several new online features, including a new blog offering readers more access to Reader Representative Jamie Gold.

According to the company, the move will “increase newsroom access to better serve and communicate with readers.”

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Greek journalists went on strike today, and more than 4,000 of them attended a rally and marched through central Athens to protest the reformation of the country's broken pension system.

The 24-hour strike began at 6 a.m. (0400GMT), after which content on Greek news Web sites was not renewed and state-run and private radio and television news was cancelled. And as no journalists were on the job today, no newspapers will be published Wednesday, the Associated Press reported.

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Microsoft and the Danish newspaper Jutland Post (Morgenavisen Jyllands-Posten) have launched a new digital product, a platform called JP2, which mixes print and online venues.

Consumers must download and install a couple of software programs, and launch the JP2 platform. Navigation is different from most, but the layout looks like a real print newspaper.

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Telegraph Media Group has commissioned research that reveals that companies interested in recruiting will have the best results with integrated advertising campaigns, which incorporate online and printed papers, onrec.com reported Tuesday.

Telegraph commissioned the research to learn more about the value of newspaper brands, the changing role of national newspaper advertising in an increasingly digital world and the emerging role of online newspaper advertising.

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Sanoma Digital has launched a new user-generated breaking news Web site that also gathers material for a series of weekly free newspapers by using an open-source journalism platform.

The Finnish news publisher last month launched Vartti.fi to allow users to upload multimedia content directly to the site.

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Singapore and the Phillippines reached a media cooperation agreement today, to be applied to media policy and information exchange, co-production and mutual exchanges and training and human resource development, Xinhua reported.

The Memorandum of Understanding was inked at this year's Asia Media Festival, hosted by the Media Development Authority (MDA) of Singapore.

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Tribune Co. announced Tuesday that its October revenue dropped 9.3 percent to $383 million.

Its publishing revenue was down 7.9 percent to $287 million, from $311 million in the same period last year.

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