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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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2 August 2007

Blog used as vital update on UK flood zone

A council in one of the worst flood-hit regions of the UK is blogging the latest news to update victims and the media in the wake of the worst flooding since records began.

Cheltenham Borough Council launched the blog to keep the media and the public up-to-date with rapidly changing news and announcements.

The blog is a departure from the council’s usual communication methods but the immediacy of it is necessary to keep people right up-to-date. The site has had more than 20,000 hits in the first four days.

It has been used to offer news and advice on a wide variety of issues from vital information about emergency water supplies to encouraging people to recycle their plastic water bottles. A letter of support from the Queen has also been posted on the blog.

The council's web development officer, Pete Riley, said that when the flood crisis hit the region the council decided to use a blog and update it via a hosted version of WordPress because it could not be sure that it would have a reliable electricity supply at its offices.

That way, he added, any of the team could update the blog from anywhere, including home computers if required.