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By Cain Burdeau, The Associated Press

NEW ORLEANS - The Times-Picayune, one of the nation's oldest newspapers, will no longer offer print editions seven days a week and instead plans to offer three printed issues a week starting in the fall. The change means New Orleans would become the largest metro area in the nation without a daily newspaper in the digital age.

The changes announced Thursday were combined with similar moves at three major Alabama daily newspapers also owned by the Newhouse family group's Advance Publications. The Birmingham News, the Press-Register in Mobile and The Huntsville Times will switch to publishing three days a week as part of a new focus on online news. At all four papers, there will be unspecified staff cuts. All four papers will continue to publish continuously on their websites, and online access will remain free.

Newspapers have struggled in recent years as consumers increasingly get their news online. Print advertising declined as the economy went into recession, and newspapers have yet to learn how to make online advertising as profitable as its printed counterpart.

"For us, this isn't about print versus digital, this is about creating a very successful multi-platform media company that addresses the ever-changing needs of our readers, our online users and our advertisers," said Advance Publications' president of local digital strategy, Randy Siegel, in an interview with The Associated Press. "This change is not easy, but it's essential for us to remain relevant."

Siegel didn't say how much money the reduced print runs in Louisiana and Alabama would save, nor how many staff members would be laid off or hired in the new online units.

"To get good quality information is not cheap," said Jennifer Greer, chair of the journalism department at the University of Alabama. "What you are seeing is people trying to figure out a business model that works in a digital age."

The decision was met with sadness by some residents in New Orleans, where The Times-Picayune won a Pulitzer Prize for its coverage of Hurricane Katrina in 2005. Staffers continued reporting despite being forced out of the newspaper's offices amid widespread flooding and power outages.

The storm drove away thousands of residents, some of whom never came back. The city and its newspaper struggled to recover in the years since.

The paper was a lifeline for the Southern, working-class city, providing government announcements, obituaries, Carnival and scoops on local corruption, said Cheron Brylski, a 53-year-old New Orleans-based political consultant. Not having the paper every day is like losing a sports team, she said.

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WYNNEWOOD, Pa.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--

SAFARI Montage is proud to announce the renewal and expansion of its K-12 digital relationship with PBS (Public Broadcasting Service). With this expanded relationship, beginning July 1, 2012, SAFARI Montage will become the only major commercial digital distributor of PBS full-length programs to schools nationwide. As confirmed by PBS, PBS will not be renewing their digital distribution agreements with other major players such as Discovery Education and Learn360.

SAFARI Montage is honored to expand its relationship with PBS to provide schools with essential K-12 PBS series and programs on our state-of-the-art learning object repository and digital delivery system, said Andrew Schlessinger, CEO and Co-Founder of SAFARI Montage.

PBS is pleased to extend our licensing agreement with SAFARI Montage, said Andrea Downing, Co-President of PBS Distribution. PBS content has been distributed through SAFARI Montage and Library Video Company in a variety of formats for many years, providing educators with easy access to our rich library of award-winning educational programming. As the need for high quality digital media in K-12 classrooms grows, we are proud to partner with a company that shares our commitment to engaging students and teachers with tools specifically crafted for innovative, 21st-century learning.

The agreement begins a new chapter in a long-standing relationship for SAFARI Montage, the premier digital content provider to K-12 classrooms, and PBS, the world renowned U.S. network of educational programming, which dates back nearly 25 years. Since 2005, SAFARI Montage has provided K-12 classrooms with access to hundreds of essential PBS digital series and programs, covering everything from history, science and the arts to math and literacy.

During 2012, SAFARI Montage will be adding 300 of the latest PBS/WGBH programs and series to the 650 programs currently available, such as Ken Burns The Civil War, NOVA, Frontline, Between the Lions, Cyberchase, Libertys Kids, Masterpiece Theatre and We Shall Remain. New PBS offerings to SAFARI Montage during 2012 include Ken Burns The War and Prohibition, Freedom Riders, America Goes to War, The Human Spark, Wild Kratts, Your Life, Your Money, Telescope: Hunting the Edge of Space, Super WHY!, Martha Speaks, Design Squad, The Fabric of the Cosmos, Steve Jobs: One Last Thing and American Experience: Clinton. SAFARI Montage will also continue its long history of providing outstanding educational series that first ran on PBS such as Bill Nye: The Science Guy and Reading Rainbow.

For more information on PBS content available through SAFARI Montage, please visit http://www.SAFARIMontage.com. Read more about the deal at eSchool News.

About SAFARI Montage

SAFARI Montage provides school districts with an integrated Learning Object Repository and Digital Media & Curriculum Delivery solution all wrapped into one. In addition, the solution is interoperable with virtually all classroom technology and most enterprise district systems. The full suite of integrated modules provides a single interface for users to access and manage all digital, visual resources from within the school district network or from home. And now, with the introduction of the Digital Curriculum Presenter (DCP) module, curriculum departments can elegantly deliver a full digitalcurriculum. The award-winning SAFARI Montage solution is also designed to cut costs for school districts by utilizing intelligent digital media solutions to replace traditional methods. SAFARI Montage servers come preloaded with educational video titles tied to the curriculum from the industrys leading video publishers, which include Schlessinger Media, PBS, The History Channel, National Geographic, Scholastic, Disney Educational Production, BBC and more. In addition, school districts can easily upload and manage their own digital content, and disseminate it to all users throughout the school or district.

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18-05-2012 04:55 DAVID BIRCH is a director of Consult Hyperion, an IT management consultancy that specialises in electronic transactions. Described by the Oxford Internet Institute as "one of Britain's most acute observers of the internet and social networks", in The Telegraphas "one of the world's leading experts on digital money" and by the Centre for the Study of Financial Innovation as "one of the most user-friendly of the UK's uber-techies". He is a media commentator on electronic business issues and has appeared on BBC television and radio, Sky and other channels around the world.

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