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We keep hearing from legacy newspaper folks how "news can't be free," as they look to set up paywalls and other such barriers to folks actually participating in the news process.

And yet, as has been discussed time and time again, for most people the news was already effectively free.

Subscription fees rarely (if ever) covered distribution and printing costs. The real money has always been in advertising.

A group of Canadian militants are training for jihad at an al Qaeda facility in Pakistan, according to a report released by a Hong Kong-based news organization.

As you know by now, Rupert Murdoch's The Times (of London) has kicked off its paywall experiment, with an editor there claiming that news publications that don't put up a paywall will go out of business.

Perhaps. We shall see... but in the meantime, Rupert might want to find people who understand HTML before he turned on the paywall.

Last month, Google News began including videos from a variety of news organizations, such that some stories on the aggregator now include related videos from YouTube that are embedded side-by-side with links to news articles.

The news organization will also use the company's technology to integrate ads and define ad policies for local as well as national campaigns.