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"Trying to reproduce online what we did in print isn't a business model."

Andy Phelan, Managing Editor, Herald Express, UK

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"People are realising that the iPad is not a direct substitute for the newspaper, they're arguably complimentary."

Tim Rowell, Director of Mobile Product Development, Telegraph, UK

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"We're going to get the users to pay for content on the new devices. But what will we give them? A PDF? We need to give more things to the user, we have to give content adapted to these devices."

Onintze Gutiérrez, Head of Mobile, Unidad Editorial, Spain

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"Censorship is expressed as the influence of the state in the content of the media. In this context, it is not a trend in the region, but I believe we can see elements in some countries that make us think it is a strategy that some governments follow."

Carlos Cortes Castillo,  former Executive Director, Foundation for Press Freedom, Colombia

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"Cuban bloggers do not make a strong opposition. They aren't organised. They just fight against the asphyxiation that Cubans experience." 

José Luis Garcia Paneque, exiled Cuban journalist

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"This region has a huge debt in the topic of violence against journalists, and the impunity that follows this violence." 

Catalina Botero, Special Rapporteur on Freedom of Expression of the Organization of American States

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"Governments send a message to all media when they punish one of them." 

Eleonora Rabinovich, Director of the Freedom of Expression Programme, Association for Civil Rights, Argentina

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"As a reader, you are more likely to click on a story that your friends recommended than click on a story that is listed as the top story of the day." 

Alex Fuentes, Director of Interactive Products, Miami Herald, USA

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"The tablet is like a Swiss Army knife. It's a multipurpose tool."

Christoph Riess, CEO, World Association of Newspapers and News Publishers (WAN-IFRA)

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"Managers who feel they can do more with less are wrong. Convergence is not a mechanism to save money, it's a method of streamlining processes, but not a method to pay less to produce more." 

Roberto Pombo, Managing Director, El Tiempo, Colombia

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"It is our obsession to educate, to contribute to raising the quality of life for individuals. This is what justifies the fight for free journalism. And it isn't a one-day fight. We need more than ever to support the free press in all corners of the world." 

Gerardo Araujo, President of Andiarios, the Colombian Newspaper Association, and Managing Director of El Universal

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"The Daily is not really a newspaper, it's a magazine with a lot of features, games and other attractions, it's a magazine for people who don't read newspapers." 

Aldo van Weezel, Director of the Media Management And Transformation Centre for Latin America, Chile, on News Corporation's new iPad-only publication

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"What we're really competing for is the non-renewable resource that our readers have, and that is time. And it's slipping away to Facebook and the like. The question is, how does your journalism stand out? Where is your place among the many other outlets available?" 

Raju Narisetti, Managing Editor of the Washington Post, USA

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"The challenges, as well as threats we're facing today – and not only in Argentina – is not only from the digital impact on print, but the political threats as well, because of the decisions that governments impose as they try to weaken journalists and newspapers. This is familiar to many of you." 

Ricardo Roa, Deputy Editor, Clarin, Argentina

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"The challenge over the last 10 years is, 'let's not put aside any readers, especially the youngsters.'" 

Christiano Nygaard, Director of Operations, RBS,  Brazil