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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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11 February 2008

Blogs can drive public service agenda

Public service chiefs should tap in to the potential of blogs in making decisions about the future direction of services, according to Random Acts of Reality blogger, Tom Reynolds.

Reynolds, who works as a London ambulance technician, called on leading figures across the public sector to use blogs as a way to understand the realities of public service work at grass-roots level.

He said that there were huge benefits to blogging, which could forge greater understanding between employers and employees or between the different departments within an organisation and could break down barriers which were often put up in the workplace.

Blogs were used, according to Reynolds, to discuss issues such as the government's unrealistic eight-minute ambulance response times or the mountain of paperwork faced by police officers.

Reynolds said that his blog was a true account of his ambulance work – neither Casualty nor an edited documentary.

Blogging, he explained, gave individuals a voice which enabled them to draw attention to flaws in services and help influence change.

Reynolds did not believe that his employers, the London Ambulance Service, were unhappy about his blogging activity.

He said that blogs helped communication between groups and other groups, between himself and the public and also between the public and himself because they got to feed back.