We will outlast them all!!!

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http://www.pressgazette.co.uk/story.asp?sectioncode=1&storycode=49450&c=1<blockquote class="webkit-indent-blockquote" style="margin: 0 0 0 40px; border: none; padding: 0px;"><div><br></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px; "><p style="font-style: italic; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 18px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; ">Northcliffe Digital is planning to axe more than 100 community publishers working across its network of Local People websites, Press Gazette understands.</p></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px; "><p style="font-style: italic; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 18px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; ">Community publishers, who earn around £500 a month to oversee the hyper-local websites, were told on Wednesday and given between one and three months’ notice.</p></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px; "><p style="font-style: italic; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 18px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; ">Northcliffe told them it was part of a wider review of its Local People network, but Press Gazette understands that poor advertising revenue could be to blame for the decision.</p></span></div></blockquote><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px; "><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 18px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; ">Publishers are slowly working out that there is simply no money in this hyperlocal lark. It only works on a non, or near-non commercial basis. That and Finsbury Park People is rubbish.</p></span></div>