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Newspapers Focus More on Registration Than Paid Content: Several larger newspaper companies are committing to online registration as "training wheels" for a paid and premium future, including Tribune, Belo, McClatchy and The Washington Post. But even as registration gains momentum, most of the 300+ newspaper executives attending the Newspaper Association of America's annual Connections conference in Orlando last week expressed reluctance to put their content behind a paid firewall because they'd lose readers and jeopardize higher revenues from advertising.