Unlike the Guardian, which created a huge audience it cannot adequately monetize, German papers invested in the core product and bought time to adapt.

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Several of them now refuse to deliver papers to readers far from the urban core.

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He dreams of a newspaper group with a tiny core of journalists whose copy is adapted for use across a swathe of papers, upmarket and downmarket, regional and national.

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The company makes most of its money from the screens, rather than from selling news to papers and broadcasters, so the content division is at the core of the company.

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The website is "at the core of Mr. Valle's case, " wrote Ms. Gatto in court papers, because it is where Mr. Valle "interacted in cyberspace" with a second man charged in the case, Michael Vanhise, and other alleged fetishists.

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