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David Simon, creator of The Wire and Treme , on the

25 May 2012

It’s grievous what is happening to regional newspapers, especially. But the whole industry will continue to collapse until everyone swallows hard and goes behind a paywall.

ITV proposes cutting regional news content

25 May 2012

Plan submitted to Ofcom would see some weekday regional content replaced with aggregate of news from several regions ITV has proposed cutting back on its regional news programming as part of its submission to Ofcom on the renewal of its broadcasting licences from 2015. The proposal has been officially submitted as part of Ofcom's 86-page report to the culture secretary, Jeremy Hunt, on the ...

News leech's fresh cash deal with rags 'reasonable' – tribunal

22 May 2012

Formerly 'uneconomic' costs suddenly affordable for article scraper The fees that businesses will have to pay news aggregators of newspapers' online content for their services have been set after a Copyright Tribunal determined the terms were "reasonable".…