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The article reports that Yahoo has convinced publishers that is has no intention of abandoning the Yahoo Newspaper Consortium especially now that it is rolling out the behavioral targeting APT advertising platform. Many publishers worry that when Carol Batz replaced Yahoo co-founder Jerry Yang their online advertising partnership with Yahoo may be terminated.

This article presents information on the changes in the joint operating agreement of Gannett Co., Knight Ridder Inc. and MediaNews Group Inc. The publishing companies rearranged the ownership of six dailies in four U.S. states in summer 2005. As a result, MediaNews will hold just a 5% interest in the renamed Detroit Newspaper Partnership LP. MediaNews will not be sharing any profits, either, until at least 2009. Instead, it will be given annual payments that start at $5 million in 2006, and gradually decline to a final installment of $1.9 million in 2012.

Discusses issues surrounding the partnership between Lozano Enterprises and Tribune Co. Strategy of Hispanic publishers to grow their business; Views on the biggest sea change for Latino papers; Successes that have emboldened newspaper groups to accelerate their targeting of Latino readers.