– MEN ABC: The Manchester Evening News has become the first regional paper to publish audited online traffic alongside print circulation. The paper has joined those sending “group product reports“, which detail cross-platform popularity. The website got 1.53 million uniques in November. Via HTFP.
– Libération: France’s Libération.fr is about to embark on a rebuild to include more “2.0” features” and the inevitable “user-driven content”. It’s said the “community of users will engage, sharing views and driving editorial through blogs and other interactive editorial tools”. A press release connects the move to include this “intellectual discourse” with the paper’s founding by existentialist Jean-Paul Sartre in 1973.
– Birmingham Post: The Midlands regional rebooted its site today for its 150th birthday with a slicker look and “a small army” of blog contributors from outside the company. The site is a cleaner, more colourful implementation of Trinity Mirror’s (LSE: TNI) latest template and there will be news output through the day. Via PG.