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eaders who cannot, or are not willing to pay for news. The newspaper is distributed in allpublic places - restaurants, hotels, department stores and markets. Message d’Afrique iscurrently a monthly publication but the publisher’s goal is to publish it bi-weekly or evenweekly. Average distribution of the newspaper is 15,000 copies per issue. The number ofpages varies depending on the number of advertising pages. Thus far, issues have fluctuatedbetween 8 and 16 pages. The newspaper employs three editorial staff. WAN - The RAP 21Newsletter No 3/2006, February 7, 2006CanadaThe youth-market free newspaper Dose is going out of print because it had poor prospects ofbeing profitable, the CanWest MediaWorks Income Fund announced. The Monday-to-Fridaynewspaper was launched in April 2005 and targeted readers aged 18 to 34 in Vancouver,Calgary, Edmonton, Toronto and Ottawa. The publication will continue its run online andmobile editions, which will be a better fit for the product and its market, said Peter Viner,president and CEO of CanWest MediaWorks. "In this very competitive newspaper market, wefeel the printed publication will not produce the financial results we expect over the longterm, however, we see a growing product in the Dose online and mobile offering which wewill continue to develop," Viner said. "Going forward, we plan to keep the best elements ofDose and weave these into our web, mobile and general content strategies." The companysays about 50 people are affected by the move and 10 will be retained. "The Dose team is avery dedicated and talented group and we regret the impact on the staff which has invested agreat deal in the project over the past year," Viner said. "However, we must continue tomanage our business to ensure we demonstrate a strong value proposition to our customers,advertisers and investors." A former employee who asked not to be named said thenewspaper's staff was shocked by the announcement, saying it came after a one-yearanniversary party just a week ago. "(The news) came totally out of nowhere. It seems very,very strange to me that we would throw a huge party . . . a week before this happens," he said."And that's a party where clients come and all kinds of deals are made." CanWestMediaWorks is indirectly owned 74 per cent by CanWest Global Communications Corp.(TSX:CGS.A) and 26 per cent by the CanWest MediaWorks Income Fund.http://ca.news.yahoo.com/s/17052006/2/business-canwest-stop-printing-free-newspaper-doseavailable-online-cellphones.html;May 17, 2006Czech RepublicOne month after the launch of the afternoon free daily newspaper Kuryr, the owners of thepublication continue to remain anonymous — but they’ll show their faces within severalweeks, their representative promised. Jan Hamacek, head of the Kuryr project, said that theowners of Iditara, the company publishing the daily, are “a group of Czech individuals whodon’t want to disclose their identity for now because they’re involved in other acquisitions,some of them in the media.” Hamacek vehemently denied any connections between themysterious owners and political circles. “I’m not a politician and there’s no point in beingclose to political parties,” he said. “It’s true that [the ruling Czech Social Democrats] CSSDought advertising in our newspaper, but they paid for it. That doesn’t mean that they own us.”Hamacek added that the opposition Civic Democratic Party (ODS) didn’t buy advertisementsin the paper because they don’t distribute their budget evenly and prefer to spend it all onMladá fronta Dnes, the second-largest newspaper in terms of paid circulation. “Does thatmean that [ODS party leader Mirek] Topolánek and [head of the party’s political and pressoffice Marek] Dalík own Mladá fronta Dnes?” he asked rhetorically. Hamacek said thatKuryr, the fourth free daily newspaper on the Czech market, which launched April 20, is asound business project. The newspaper targets “all the people willing to read,” with ages33