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10 July 2008
Future on the line for regionals
Regional papers are turning to the net for their future revenue streams, as they haemorrhage advertisers from their print editions amid growing economic uncertainty.

7 July 2008
Mobile journalists to share desks
Mobile journalists, or mojos, face losing their desks as newspapers look to take advantage of mobile technologies, such as laptops and WiFi, to cut down on office real estate.

3 July 2008
Regional star does four million impressions
The web offering of Britain's biggest-selling regional evening newspaper, the Express & Star, has reached a new milestone by breaking through the four million barrier for monthly page impressions.

30 June 2008
Journalists should take blogging seriously
Too few journalists treat blogging seriously and are failing to grasp the truth that the blogging revolution is threatening the established order of journalism, according to Guardian media commentator, Roy Greenslade.

26 June 2008
BBC wants Ł800,000 local video kitty
The BBC has unveiled plans for an £800,000 fund to source local video content from outside the organisation, as part of a £68 million investment in its local network.

23 June 2008
Mail posts first-class online figures
Mail Online has leapfrogged Telegraph.co.uk to become the most popular online national newspaper, according to the latest Audit Bureau of Circulation Electronic (ABCe) statistics.

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25 June 2007

BBC undermining regional commercial online media

The BBC should not be allowed to carry out its plan to roll out ultra-local broadband television services - according to the head of one of Britain's largest regional newspaper groups.

Johnston Press chief executive, Tim Bowdler, told the Westminster Media Forum that the BBC has the unique luxury of the licence fee and can distort local markets and deter the commercial investment needed to increase diversity and plurality of voice.

Bowdler said that the BBC's Where I Live websites are already damaging regional newspapers' online development and that more encroachment into local markets would further undermine commercial media's investment in online video services.

But the BBC hit back by saying it is local, whereas the newspaper industry is ultra-local, covering communities at a more granular level.

BBC controller of English regions, Andy Griffee, hopes to see the local television service, which is being piloted in the West Midlands, approved and rolled out over four years.

Other media company executives at the forum reacted to the pilot's £3 million price tag.

The chief executive of Manchester television station Channel M, Mark Dobson, said the quality of the BBC experiment was unsurprisingly good, given the cost. Tindle Radio chief executive, Kevin Stewart, added it was a ridiculous amount and that it could never make that kind of money on a commercial broadband station in a million years