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News & Interactive upcoming training schedule

Chris Biondi, coordinator of online content, works with a local staff on Web Cube.

Meetings to discuss GateHouse Media's 2010 content strategy are set. All meetings start at 12:30 p.m. and run to 3:30 p.m.

• Thursday, Feb. 11: Alexandria, LA
Location: Holiday Inn Express Hotel and Suites Alexandria, 2340 North MacArthur Dr., Alexandria, LA 71303


Ascension Citizen [LA]
Beauregard Daily News [LA]
Leesville Daily Leader [LA]
Post South [LA]
Southwest Daily News [LA]
The Bastrop Daily Enterprise [LA]
The Cajun Gazette [LA]
Vinton News [LA]

• Thursday, Feb. 18: Needham, MA
Location: Community Newspaper Company


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Messenger Post Media launches eight hyper-local Web sites



By Rick Jensen

Editor/Messenger Post Media

Messenger Post Media established a stronger presence on the Web in the Rochester, N.Y., area when we launched 8 distinct hyper-local sites to serve key suburban communities earlier this month. The sites are brand new and all have strong weekly print products.
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Top 50 GateHouse Media Web sites (page views) for January 2010

Every month, GHnewsroom.com will share the Top 50 GateHouse Media web sites in terms of page views.

Here are results for January:

Top Sites

As more GateHouse Media newspapers transition to the the new Zope template, GHnewsroom.com will share how newsrooms are managing certain areas of the new site successfully.

"New Template Tips" runs every Tuesday for the next eight weeks. The feature will include tips from editors on navigation, the carousel, the promotional scroll and more.







Today's topic: Hot links




Top GateHouse News Service stories (January 2010)

The 10 most popular GateHouse News Service stories in January:


Last week, we told you about a unique situation at The Record Herald, a GateHouse Media newspaper in Pennsylvania, where story comments helped provide closure to a 1914 tragedy.

There's an update to the story.


Reader callout: Seek Boy Scouts memories and photos

The Boy Scouts of America are celebrating a big one this year — their 100th anniversary.

And one of the GateHouse News & Interactive Division's 48 recommended reader callouts this year is to ask readers to send in memories and photos of their days scouting.

Click here to download the callout.

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Like many governors will do this month, N.Y. Gov. David Paterson gave his State of State address earlier this week.

These kind of stories often get good play in local newspapers. At the very least a good 15-inch wire story is written about the event and often local folks will speak up about what they thought of the speech.

The Observer Dispatch
took what's typically an annual process story and made the content quite readable in print by breaking the story into pieces.


The Morning Brew, a feature from the Meseenger Post, gets readers off to a fresh start every morning with tips, cool Web sites and fun quotes.

Messenger Post uses the feature as a way to have some consistent content appearing in the morning that helps online readers map out their day.

The feature offers: